Author: SecondTry
Date: 2022-01-08 20:18
Hi Jen:
I'm sure I'm not only not the first to say this, but that it's been said better elsewhere.
Difficult passages are difficult for, IMHO, two reasons. The first is, well, they're difficult. They challenge our motor skills: our abilities to perform patterns and at speeds not regularly or recently seen before. Still more they challenge whatever tired or breath-needing state we already may be in that conflicts with our concentration.
But there's a second mental factor at play as well: our confidence. If we have lack of it we're likely to take some passage of music in a way that's more likely to produce errors, which attacks our confidence and the problem becomes syndromic.
The cycle is broken by taking simpler stuff slower, gradually increasing the difficult, and not giving a hoot if we mess up (as long as we tried at a speed that we have successfully played at or near before), especially within the confines of our practice studio.
There is a fine line of what level of music advances us most rapidly. On the one hand there's little utility in taking on works that are 5 years more advanced than where we are right now. Conversely, "3 blind mice" -- and I am no way saying that that's the simplicity of the level you are working at, builds only confidence, not ability.
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