On 7 September 2010 20:33, David Tayler <[email protected]> wrote:
> steps. You can also set the metronome low, and advance a click every > few days, but this only really works in conjunction with streamlining > the motion of the right hand. I have another take on this. Study slowly and precisely. Streamlining the motion of both hands. In other words, know what the fingers do, get rid of superfluous movements and work on muscle memory. Slowly, don't speed up. Don't fall into the trap of studying your mistakes. Chop the runs into groups of 4 notes (or whatever is appropriate) and think of each group of four notes as a unit. Study the unit. String the units together. The speed up. This can go remarkably fast, the speeding up that is. I think it has to do, my theory anyway, with how fast we can think. Speeding up the metronome, but remainign to think about every note individually, will have an upper limit in thinking, an upper limit in control. When thinking of four notes as one unit, we can suddenly think, or control, the music at quadruple speed. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
