Learning music is faster and more fun with a metronome
1. Play through the piece. This is intuitive. If you are going to learn how to play a piece of music you need to play it many times. You have to play through it the first time.
In the first few times you go through the whole piece, play or sing slowly with attention to what [...]
Tags: instrumental, learn music, Music Practice, music practice techniques, studio practice techniqueAn important and fundamental musical skill, subdividing the beat, is demonstrated in this tutorial video.
The Slowdown Technique in Music Practice
If you allow yourself to make the same flub when going through a piece, time after time, you are practicing the flub. It doesn’t pay to practice a flub. It pays to eliminate the flub.
Even if you mentally reject the flub and fix it by replaying the passage the way [...]
Yesterday I felt compelled to get stern with my best student. He’s 14 years old. He plays well for his age. He also has excellent chops on Irish fiddle tunes.
But, it was clear from his handlng of Handel tha he had not practice seriously. I made him do the 3 times drill. I talked him [...]
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