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Re: Practice techniques

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-08-22 17:00

As I contemplate this again...........a quite thorough synopsis of what to do for improvement, there are a few things that we take for granted that may be up for re-examination.

Someone recently posted an Earspasm offering of Michael Lowenstein where he goes over various perturbations of rhythm for running passages. In it, he states that "we are training our EARS to HEAR where the notes fall because the fingers just flop around." I spent years with a casual remark from a teacher rattling around in my head about "muscle memory" or "spinal memory," however, the key (no pun intended) seems more that our brain must actively coordinate the our movement with the sound being produced. And that is different from what a lot of us do.

There is also a different way to look at practice speed. There is the ALWAYS practice slow. You then try it at tempo, or faster, then go back to practicing really really slowly. There is no substitute for nailing that passage over and over and over again........instead of 'sorta getting it.'

.................Paul Aviles

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