How to practice

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carlos soto

Posts: 126
Joined: Oct. 22 2005

How to practice

Hi guys, I was wondering how you approach practice in learning a new tune.
In the whole process it takes me like a month to get a new piece, I usually take a short phrase or 4 measures and play it until I'm confident, when I'm done with the whole song I choose the hard parts and work on it, here's the point of my question, do you practice hard parts as they are or you practice something else that could help you play it?
I often find myself working over and over again on a part and I continue to be stuck on it, and then practice something completly different and it actually helps me to play the other stuff.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 6 2006 21:23:18

duende

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Joined: Dec. 15 2003
From: Sweden

RE: How to practice (in reply to carlos soto)

If you repeat the hard part over and over but still can´t play it it meens that you got some technique problem.
I say this just as an example. In a picado there might be a string crossing that screws it up.
so in stead of playing the run over and over i would play diffrent exersices on string crossing.
Then go back to the picado later

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 6 2006 21:37:54

carlos soto

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Joined: Oct. 22 2005

RE: How to practice (in reply to carlos soto)

Yeah you're right, but I would call it a technique problem, I think it has to do with a movement feel problem and when you get to the point where you can feel the movement without an effort and efficiently then the problem is solved, I just find amazing that sometimes you work on something that has no relation but it helps overall.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 7 2006 0:51:47

henrym3483

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Joined: Nov. 13 2005
From: Limerick,Ireland

RE: How to practice (in reply to carlos soto)

i think its just buliding muscle memory, ie if you make a mistake because your going too fast it means you brain has'nt internalised the passage well enough to do it at high speed ANYTIME im learnig a new falseta, even if its apparently simply on the page, i do it extremely slowly then ill pick up the tempo at a later tiem.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 7 2006 14:41:54

bahen

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Joined: Mar. 4 2006

RE: How to practice (in reply to carlos soto)

Like Henry, I just build tempo. I had one piece where at first I couldnt play faster than 65! I can do the same buleria at 220 now. It was just awkward fingering, and it just took a while to adjust.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 7 2006 15:14:45