Author: johnt
Date: 2008-05-08 14:15
Chuck,
Don't spend time working on what you can play easily. Isolate the hard parts, then slow the metronome (if you don't have one, get one post haste & make sure the click is loud enough to hear well) down to its slowest beat. Then play the difficult selection repetitively at that slowest speed until it is dead on. As Martin Schuring says, Never play anything wrong. Then bump the gnome up a notch. When you reach the point where you are unable to play the part perfectly, stop. You are done with that part for the day. Make a note of the speed at which you could play it perfectly. Then the following day, click the gnome back three clicks slower & work your way up. Keep doing this until you achieve the tempo required. This may take weeks or it may take a day or so. This is the how. It's the application & staying with it that's difficult. If you approach each practice session in this manner, you will end up having a few good notes by the time you finish that session. Let this be your source of satisfaction.
As J. S. Bach said: There's nothing really difficult about it. You play the right note at the right time & the instrument just plays itself. Of course, he was referring to the organ, not the oboe.
The transcontinental railroad was built one tie at a time.
Best & blessings to you as well,
john
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