max_kain :
classical musicians still learn that way. You learn by mimetism, practicing slowly with a metronome. A lot of amateurs mistakes is to want to play the hard part at tempo as soon as possible, so it sounds bad at tje beguining and they think that if they keep repeating and practicing the same way 10 000 times will eventually "unlock" the patern. What they did is practice an error 10 000 times that sometimes work like 0.1% of the time. Instead of taking the metronome, slowing it down to the tempo where you can actually play it ad infinitum without doing a mistake and then increasing the tempo. Besides a very few techniques or passages that actually require to do something fast in order to produce a certain effect and can't be done slowly (maybe 0.0000001% of the time) you need to be able to play the song slowly before playing it fast. If you can't play it at 60 bam with musicality how do you expect to do it at 120 bpm? And this idea that let's say a scale at 130 bmp, you can do it 80% correctly at 130 bpm (meaning that you miss 20% of the notes) but 1 time out of 10 you manage to do it at 99-100%! So your instinct is to keep.practicing at 130 bpm and you think that 1/10 will become 2/10 then 3/10... etc until 10/10. But what you are actually doing is practicing a mistake 9 times out of 10 so when the concert comes, what do you think your brain is more likely to do on it's own? The scale you got right 100 times out of 1000 or the scale you got wrong 900 times over 1000?
Don't practice mistakes, slow your tempo until you can do everything perfectly then increase by only 5 bpm, then.an other 5 bpm, then even if everything is perfect, come back down by -5bpm and like that until you are up to speed. So let's say you have to play at 120 bpm, you start at 60, then +5, if all is good +5, then no matter what you come back to 65, then +5,+5,-5,+5,+5,-5,+5,+5,-5... yp to 120 and to give you some l'attitude you keep it up to 130, 140 bpm just to make sure that 120 just feels like practice. It seems tedious but it will on the long run make your practice 10 times more efficient and you will actually practice instead of just playing mistakes. And at every bpm, 60, 90 or 120 (1/2)
2026-08-14 15:37:03