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 Re: Timing
Author: ohsuzan 
Date:   2010-07-01 16:31

Hi Paula --

My husband has struggled with his (lack of) timing sense for years. He has had problems keeping a steady beat, as well as with rendering rhythmic values correctly. This was a severe and chronic problem which has kept him from enjoying his instrument, and especially from playing well with others.

He finally has found a teacher who has a method for addressing this problem, and he has become *miraculously* better at everything after only a few weeks.

As I understand it, what this teacher is doing is having him take just ONE bar -- a problematic bar -- of a piece, and slowing it way, way, way down (yes, using a metronome). When teacher finds the speed at which hubby can play the bar correctly, he moves the metronome up a tick, until he can play correctly there. And then another tick, and so on. All this is still only on ONE bar.

That almost sounds like voodoo to me, but I can attest that this technique WORKS like nothing else he has ever tried (and believe me, both he and I have tried!). He is playing with much greater accuracy and confidence than I would have ever thought possible.

Susan
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