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Posted by: guitarist ® 07/08/2008, 06:35:28 Edit |
"I did try the Sakai slow-down approach for a while with a metronome but I'm not sure if using a metronome works for me. Some days are better than others and some sequences of fingers are more fluent than others (e.g. ma is better than am)" Oh yes, big variations for me too. What I had to do was measure the FD threshold for each individual pair of fingers and work with that. I found that playing a piece of music was just too complex for my fingers - too many finger combinations going on in which the FD was manifested in different ways. I couldn't bear taking half an hour to play through a piece of music - if that works for you, fine of course - but for me I decided I need to narrow things right down and work on simple combinations first. I'm glad I did as it really helped me isolate the problem combinations. So I'd have one metronome setting for MA alternation, one for IM and one for IA, for example. I started out with rest strokes as free was just too hard. I slowly introduced free strokes, and then arpeggio combinations, this was over several months. MA free stroke alternation is the toughest of all, I have only really been able to do that after about 7 or 8 months after I began this regime. " so I prefer Paul Sogaard's advice that he gave me which was just play and ensure that the hand is relaxed after each note." Yes, I think that is very good advice - feel the plucking finger completely relax before the next finger starts. And also continue to feel the relaxation in the first finger as the next finger starts its movement. |
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