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After about twenty odd years of jazz and just learning parts when classical playing has been required I have now started practising. It felt great. I found the Tableaux de Provence in a box and off I went. Amazing how much that was still in muscle memory! I've practised for a couple of weeks and got it up to speed. Then I stepped back a bit and listened to what I was playing... And it was not great. It was sloppy, my fingers were jumping around, my time was all over the place even though I was using a metronome.
I then remembered one of my teachers saying "If you can play it slow, you can play it fast" so the last days I have practised the first movement very slowly with metronome on half beat. Like putting it on 40 bpm for a bar (dotted quarter = 80).
I've also done the same with scales for warmup: Put the metronome on around 40 and started playing quarter notes, then eights, then triplets, then 16th, 16th triplets and last 32ths.
It's difficult but I think this has forced me to play with my ears and I think it sounds a little better already.
Does anybody have good exercises to improve mechanical accuracy?
I then remembered one of my teachers saying "If you can play it slow, you can play it fast" so the last days I have practised the first movement very slowly with metronome on half beat. Like putting it on 40 bpm for a bar (dotted quarter = 80).
I've also done the same with scales for warmup: Put the metronome on around 40 and started playing quarter notes, then eights, then triplets, then 16th, 16th triplets and last 32ths.
It's difficult but I think this has forced me to play with my ears and I think it sounds a little better already.
Does anybody have good exercises to improve mechanical accuracy?