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  • Noa Kageyama

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    April 22, 2019 at 4:43 pm

    Hi Patrick,

    Interesting situation. So if I’m understanding correctly, things seem to fall apart and revert to old bad habits after you’ve gotten things up to tempo, and add in the musical nuances?

    Leon Fleisher once said something to the effect that it’s easy to play a note, but much harder to play it musically. I wonder if that’s what’s causing the regression?

    You might experiment with something that music ed prof James Byo once wrote about. Essentially, the idea is to make sure you are adding musical details and nuances AS you get things up to tempo, not afterwards. Because adding musical details changes the motor skills slightly (or quite a bit), so you want to bake these in much sooner in the process, before the motor skills are too well ingrained minus musical details.

    So you can start at a slow tempo, with metronome, and get things to a good place. But before turning the metronome up a notch or two, make sure you can play that passage with full musical inflection (if not amplified musical detail) at that same tempo, exactly the way you want. Only then are you allowed to increase the tempo.

    Does that make sense?

    Noa

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