Ricardo -> RE: Tension (Jan. 8 2017 20:29:24)
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This issue, like looking at fingerboard or hands, facial contortions, breathing problems, always missing the same note, etc, are part of "practice makes perminant, not perfect" issue. Basically by repeating this habit, your fingers tense and your toes curl in one spot, because that is how you have been practicing it and are now part of the music. You have to practice specifically NOT doing these things in severe repetiton, to erase the old habit. And I mean AT TEMPO. Because playing at a very slow tempo is not the same thing, it's that simple. It will feel like you are actually playing a different piece of music at first, and that is a good thing because it means you can now erase the old thing and replace it with the new version. Wish there was a simpler solution. Perhaps, if you are not tapping your foot, try using it to keep time there. It gives the foot a new task to focus on. Or vice verse, if you are tapping your foot and curling the toes, then deliberately stop tapping the foot for that passage. It means you will have to "re learn" the music with the new foot technique, whatever it is, but it will help erase the old habit.
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