Repeated Note Group

[Maui]

Can anyone explain this method in details to me?

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[dorfmouse]

Look in the " Paul's plan to try it for himself " thread , reply #12 and the preceding conversation.

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4858.0.html

[willcowskitz]

Can someone explain this method in broadline? I scanned through mound's and Bernhard's conversation and concluded from the number rows that you practice passages by not playing through them from beginning to end but playing them forward then backward then further forward and so on, is this even close or did I totally miss the point? Reading the whole thread would had been too much of a burden and I doubt I even then would had understood the idea.

[timothy42b]

I am going to have to print out that post, take it home, and read it slowly several more times.  I don't think I understood it either.

Here was my attempt at this last night. 

I looked at the three pieces I need to prepare for the next lesson.  (They are simple ones most of you could sightread - but I'm a 51 year old beginner.)

I wrote down the difficult spots in each.  Each has a four hard bar hard section, plus a hand shift, plus an 8 va shift on repeat;  those are where I have the trouble.   Then, I picked the four hard bars from piece one.  It was easy hands separate.  I couldn't do it 7 times HT, actually not even once.  So I did one measure HT over and over.  (sometimes I have to just do two notes over and over)  Then the next measure, etc..  Then two at a time.  Finally all four.  I kept an eye on the kitchen timer I keep on the piano.  I aim for ten minutes, but at 12 minutes I was getting the passage.   Then I stop.  I have a tendency to just keep playing and after an hour I'm getting worse and worse, so I'm trying to be disciplined enough to stop after ten minutes.

Took a break.  Came back and did the same thing to piece #2.   

I don't know if I'm doing it right but that's my current understanding of repeated groups.  I played each difficult measure many many times.  If I'd played the whole piece I could only have done it a few times in the session.  I think that's the point of the approach.