>This is like a poem.
>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
