Thursday, March 30, 2023 | Uncategorized

Here is a great article on practising from a fellow teacher. I will be posting up further thought in this in the coming days.

“Don’t make mistakes when you practice.”

There’s a computer saying: “Garbage in, garbage out.”

Even more so for practicing. 

Most practicing is filled with wrong notes, poor rhythm, bad fingering, improper phrasing, and inferior tone. 

The brain 🧠 records EVERYTHING. 

If one makes mistakes, they are recorded. If you emotionally react to that mistake, you deeply ENGRAVE that mistake into your consciousness.

That means that you have ‘learned’ that mistake at a deeper level than the music you are actually trying to practice. The problem with this is that the deeply engraved mistake is likely to come out when you are tense- like when you are playing for people, recording, or playing for your teacher. 

Tomorrow-

“How to avoid mistakes when practicing.”

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