Author: tetiana
Date: 2008-07-02 17:49
Hi Janlynn:
You say you work on the trouble spots "until" you "get it good..". "Until" may represent many repetitions of the mistakes whereas you may be playing the correct version only once or twice. I second the advice of GBK about re-playing the passage correctly many times, in a row if possible.
It can be maddening to discipline yourself to 10 correct repetitions in a row (not that I disagree that you ought to try). But if, like me, you find patience is at times not your virtue (and impatience can interfere with concentration), try for five, or even four. Slow. Real slow. And perfect. Not only note-perfect, but hand and finger-position-perfect, and tone-production and air-support perfect. When replaying the piece from the beginning, and arriving at the troublesome bar in question, slow way down, maybe even stop, focus and see if you can get it right, playing slowly. Make sure that the number of times you've played the passage perfectly is at least three or four (or more) times the number of times you have played it with a mistake. Increase speed of the troublesome passage, but gradually. Don't even be tempted to try it at full speed until you have at least a few days of perfect slow play under your belt.
With particularly resistant difficult stuff, I will practice the bar(s) in isolation (slow) aiming for several (perfect) repetitions in sequence (5 or 10 if I can keep the concentration going), then set that piece aside, work on something else and return during my practice session to work on 5 perfect (slow) repetitions of the passage (again in isolation). I will repeat this up to four or five times during a practice session.
Eventually it works. Good luck.
tetiana
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