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4.0 Practice Slowly I hear complaints all the time from my teacher friends that students that say, “students want to play through the whole piece really quickly”. However, when you just learn a new piece, you need to go through it slowly so that you get each note and the counting of each note correct the first few times playing the piece. If you play the wrong note even once, your brain registers the wrong note, and it becomes harder to correct. When you play a wrong note, you are teaching your brain to play the note incorrectly. It’s all about teaching your brain. I must say, when I start working on a new fast piece, I can’t wait to be able to play the notes quickly. I myself, have trouble playing slowly until I learn the notes correctly. So, I know that this can be hard to do. If you make this a habit, the habit will stay with you to practice correctly. I think a valuable video that explains this is from Dr. Molly Gebrian, violist and educator with a background in neuroscience. Use this link to see this eye-opening explanation: https://bit.ly/33Phyas
5.0 Practice Backwards P racticing slowly is one technique to use where the goal is to learn a difficult passage. But sometimes, it is still hard to play a difficult passage. Another way to get your fingers or perhaps mouth or tongue to play a difficult passage is to isolate just two notes in that passage – say the last two notes of the passage. Can you play just two notes correctly? Now add a third note, the note be<strong>for</strong>e the last two notes. So now can you play those three notes? Keep playing just the three notes until you can play them. Keep adding a note until you have the passage learned.
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