Re: gaining speed advice
When you’re practicing for speed are you playing relaxed or are you getting tense? Do you remind yourself from time to time to relax or, if you’re already tense, are you willing to take a break? Are you even aware while you’re playing that you’re tightening up? Matt Flinner often reminds his workshop students to relax because he knows how effective that is for clean, smooth and rapid playing. In one way or another all my past music teachers (and the more results oriented skills coaches) have delivered the same message: Speed doesn’t come from strength or endurance.
A couple years in, now, and still learning!
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