Efficient practice method?

[Bob]

I had a little piece I worked on.  I really didn't pay much attention to it.  I just played through it three times in a row, straight through, each day.  Fairly painless.  On the negative side, I wasn't paying that much attention to it so the interpretation could have been off, but... then again, it wasn't off.

Which made me think of a beginning student practicing -- just playing straight through, not fixing mistakes.  Some mistakes iron themselves out with a little time and without much effort or attention.

And playing straight through is leaning toward performance practicing instead of practicing to fix mistakes, think, work things out, etc.


Thoughts?  I'm not quite sure what to think of it.  It was that important of a piece or performance.  Hack playing is good enough.  And as little time or attention on it was better too -- It's not really that important.

I just started wondering about it.  For how beginningers practice like that.  If it's kind of a 'stem' for a practice strategy -- play straight through, or break it apart in sections and play straight through sections....

[m1469]

Sure, I think loads of people use that as a practice strategy!  I have never found it to be the most efficient strategy for me unless my perceptive abilities are quite a bit more advanced than the piece demands.  If, in the future, my perception becomes such that I am able to instantly achieve what I aim to achieve with any piece, then I'd be happy to do something like a casual play through a Concerto and instantly be ready to perform  .