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One of the rules of practicing we all hear over and over is "Be certain to drill slowly." (I'm guilty of this too!) Often the result of this is a feeling of inhibition, which takes to tedium. Picture yourself filled with exhilaration and longing in setting out to larn a new piece. Suddenly a voice from the darkness whispers: "Don't touch those keys! Sit erect, play slowly, stay strictly in time, ticker that fingering..." and your smiling is gone. I'm beginning to experience a spasm just talking about it.

The fact is, a certain amount of slow pattern and attending to little scale of measurement item is absolutely necessary. But there is something lacking in the attack so many of us have got taken; we put out to do music, and end up playing what amounts to no more than than a series of barren exercises.

How can we defeat this problem?

First of all, it's important to retrieve that music come ups to life through shading, dynamics, differences in touch, the forms of its phrases, the rhythmical verve that is so much a portion of the right tempo. These qualities are all lacking in a slow, stiff "practice" version of a piece. They are just as indispensable as right fingering, and they don't come up across without careful work.

So, perhaps we should change that rule from "Be certain to drill slowly" to "Practice as fast as possible." But Wait! This necessitates some additional discussion. The slow portion of pattern assists larn the fingers where to go, and do it pulp easier to learn the work. But in order to larn how to do music, how to make the piece sing—we must drill it at a pacing that volition aid uncover musical human relationships and nuances of form.

Pianists must have got the opportunity to experimentation with touching and phrasing while practicing, and there is small chance of ennui when so many exciting elements are introduced to the pattern session.

In my E-book, I've included many basic exercisings with background music to help you in acquiring this degree of keyboard performance. In other words, you will be practicing with other instrumentalists. You will hear the drums, bass and an unnoticeable pianoforte concomitant that supplies a harmonic blanket for YOU to drill your course material!

Ideally, then, both ways of practicing should be used!

First, we should drill slowly adequate to larn the short letters and fingerings. Then, we should "practice as fast as possible"; that is, as fast as we can without losing control of the rudiments we learned in slow practice.

Here' how this would work. Take a short portion of the piece; you might take a four- Oregon eight-measure phrase. Practice it slowly. When you experience comfortable with the music, addition the tempo. Don't wait until you've practiced the full work slowly. In this way, at each sitting you'll acquire to larn a small section, convey it up to tempo, and experience into what is needed to convey it to life.

At the adjacent sitting, work on the adjacent four or eight measure. When you have got that subdivision brought up to tempo, compound it with the first section. Now, you will get to understand how the phrases associate to each other. You can present the thought of dynamical shading and make up one's mind which lines to convey out at a given moment. In fact, you will be making real, exciting music—even before you've learned the whole piece!

As you travel on in this way, you will probably change your head about how to play the work as new subdivisions are added. This is portion of the procedure of find and experimentation. Concert people are always re-interpreting, because they believe about these elements all the time.

So play as slowly as you necessitate to; but as fast as you are able!

I wish you the best of success.

Ron Worthy
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