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> Practicing slowly will never get you to perform things quickly. Learning something at a very slow tempo and then slowly increasing to written tempo is a stra
by kevan 12y ago
> Practicing slowly will never get you to perform things quickly.
Learning something at a very slow tempo and then slowly increasing to written tempo is a strategy taught by many teachers and in my personal experience it's worked well. Aspects of your playing are going to be different at different tempos, but that doesn't mean it isn't a valid learning technique.
- ianamartin 12y agoYou're correct. It is taught by a huge number of people. But it's not optimal for certain types of technical challenges. And there are some that it will never be sufficient for. But the biggest issue is that it is fantastically inefficient. You can learn the same passage with greater reliability in about 1/20th of the time using the reverse technique. The slow++ method isn't guaranteed to get you where you need to be. And if it does, it will take far longer.