QUOTE (Yash @ Jun 21 2012, 08:43 AM)
Me too. I think we devised it for me right, but thanks for sharing Dr. O
Well, I mentioned it relation to you but the approach has been around for a long time.. a guy called Troy Stetina also talks about it in his books
QUOTE (Opetholic @ Jun 21 2012, 09:52 AM)
Yea, set up a not so comfortable speed, play in bursts: play the first couple of notes take a break for a beat and repeat the same notes and break and repeat ... and then go to the next couple of notes, play in bursts .. then go back to the beginning and rinse and repeat
in the end you get the muscle memory and you get accustomed to the tempo..
Yes that's it.. the way I sum it up is 'You can take the hardest lick in the world and make it
easy' - all because of
the way you practise it.
Having breaks in between bursts instead of constant repetition gives you breathing and thinking space. The more time you have to breathe and gather your efforts, the less chance there is of making a mistake. So you increase your chances of perfect practise !
Applying this approach to fast speeds means you are actually playing faster.. just in small doses. It's a good way of training small, fast motor movements.
This is not the only way to practise.. we still have to develop stamina but it can help to get you over a bump because not all fast licks are long licks. They might just be a small little fragment. Practising them in smaller fragments at a tempo that is closer to the tempo that you will be performing them at is gaining confidence in speed but gaining accuracy at the same time
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