Author: brycon
Date: 2021-10-03 20:00
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The mistakes are in random places.
Perhaps instead, there are a number of issues that sometimes occur and sometimes don't, therefore giving you the impression of randomness.
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I don't hit the right holes at the right times. Sometimes I throw in an accidental G3
This issue, for instance, makes it seem as though your muscle memory wants to play a G dominant arpeggio rather than a B half-diminished one (B half-diminished, by the way, is not a "jazz harmony"; it lives on the supertonic of any minor scale). Perhaps, then, your mind and fingers need more familiarity with minor keys.
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I think so. And I say this because taking the last measure is easier than the whole passage.
If you can play correctly the arpeggio out of context, though, it's a different sort of problem. (And again, there might be several problems happening simultaneously with the passage.) You'd have to game plan for this problem in a different way. Perhaps you could play the passage up to the arpeggio, rest for several quarter notes, give your mind a chance to catch up with the music, and then play the arpeggio. As you get more comfortable, you could shrink the amount of rest until you're playing the passage as written.
With getting rid of the unwanted G, however, you might need to play different rhythmic variations, play the arpeggio ascending in addition to descending, stretch out the pitch before you tend to mess up to give your mind time to catch up, etc.
So much of practicing is figuring out exactly what's happening. Most of us, though, jump to solutions before we've completely analyzed our playing: "Oh, the technique here is bad. Time to slow the passage down to half speed and work up from there." But if we don't really understand the issue(s), in getting advice here, trying out practice techniques we find on YouTube videos, etc. we're just throwing stuff at a wall and seeing what sticks.
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