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  • Noa Kageyama

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    May 30, 2022 at 12:06 pm

    It’s sounding good – smoother and more effortless in the beginning few notes. And I wonder if why it sometimes sounds better when you add an extra note is that a more meaningful chunk of the phrase is there and so it’s easier to think in terms of the direction of the phrase?

    Also, one other thought. I wonder if it would help to mentally think the next note after the last note you play? Because if you listen to how you play the last C that you add on at the end, do you hear how you’re elongating it, because it’s the last note in the chain? Instead of playing it as you would if it were being played in the context of the phrase, each last note is being practiced differently than you actually want to play it, right? It’s occurring to me as I write this that that might be one of the benefits of reverse chaining as well – in that you always play the last note the way it is going to be in the final version.

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