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Re: Okay, so it's only at 60--but I couldn't play it at all yesterday (for JohnT

Author: ceri
Date: 2008-05-17 20:11

"Author: claire70 (91.85.171.---)
Date: 2008-05-16 20:31

I use the metronome technique myself, but recently I was at a masterclass given by Alex Klein (only in the audience, I hasten to add!), and he said he'd recently given up on the metronome. Now when he has to learn something fast, he learns it fast - but broken up, a little at a time. (If I understood him right.) His thinking was that if your brain learns it slow, when it comes to play it fast, it will always try to go back to playing it slow."

My teacher suggested doing this to get around the necessity of adding extra breaths (and therefore changing the phrasing) when practising slowly. I did give it a bit of a try but rapidly came to the conclusion that it could only work for really good players (and/or those who can practise three or four hours a day) and that I didn't have the patience to learn a whole piece this way.

At least if you bump up the metronome you have the impression that you are progressing and feel you are playing music. Spending a whole practise session (apart from the warm-up) on a couple of bars is soul destroying.

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