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Topic: Lost technical proficiency at playing a piece  (Read 1815 times)

Offline dontcheeseme

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Lost technical proficiency at playing a piece
on: January 21, 2017, 10:21:42 PM
There is this piece that I had no trouble playing for a few weeks including yesterday, especially the supposedly technical part where you do the C major arpeggios and scales downward (the Rondo part of Mozart's Sonatina). Then all of a sudden today I could NOT at all perform the piece to my previous standard, I kept missing notes at the same part where it gets technical, even after 4 quick run-through's for the sake of warm-up. This worries me. Am I learning the hard way that progress on the piano isn't always linear? Do I give the piece a rest, or do I just keep practicing until it clicks again for me. Slowly, quickly, or alternating between both?

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Offline expressman70

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Re: Lost technical proficiency at playing a piece
Reply #1 on: January 22, 2017, 12:36:41 AM
Hello,


Try practicing slower, you must have overplayed it at fast tempo, that is common side effect. Always play slow like half speed, or less until you have mastery and you can have 1 fast speed runthrough per day.
 

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