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  • Noa Kageyama

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    March 26, 2022 at 3:53 pm

    Interesting. I think you certainly could do this, but is it possible that breaking up this 16-bar section into smaller chunks might be a little too granular, perhaps, and take away from the flow of the larger whole?

    It could be that you could explore different harmonic progressions, etc. on the entire 16-bar section, and keep coming back to that 16-bar section multiple time within the same practice session, and that would be a way of using random practice, but on a larger chunk of music, as that’s probably closer to what you’ll have to do in performance?

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