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Should I practise a piece at a metronome tempo that is faster than required?
Actually playing faster than demanded is the standard strategy for becoming comfortable to play at the demanded (reduced compared what you exercized earlier) speed.
You do not necessarily need to play ...
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Should I practise a piece at a metronome tempo that is faster than required?
Sure. Practicing at a variety of speeds can't do any harm.
As long as you're practicing it RIGHT! Paradoxically, practicing UNDER speed may be of more benefit. It shows up anything you're ...
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How do guitarists remember what note each string represents when fretting?
If you come from an instrument so logically laid out and visually easy to understand such as the piano, switching to guitar can be very frustrating, provided you want to go beyond just learning where ...
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Should I practise a piece at a metronome tempo that is faster than required?
Yes, it is. Generally it is a good thing to not only be able to play it in tempo, but to be able to play it in tempo without strain. Without the playing affecting your breathing. When you can ...
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Should I practise a piece at a metronome tempo that is faster than required?
Yes, but only around 10% faster, and only when you're sure the passage concerned is down perfectly at the required speed.
Spending (wasting!) time in the recording studio is no good - especially if ...
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How do guitarists remember what note each string represents when fretting?
Here is a slightly different take.
First of all: learning the the absolute positions of the note is not all that hard. On a 21 fret guitar there are only 126 different notes you can play and only 45 ...
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Should I practise a piece at a metronome tempo that is faster than required?
There are good answers here already, so I'll just add one word of warning: Make sure you've got the "real tempo" really solid internally. I feel like the number one thing groups disagree on ...
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How do guitarists remember what note each string represents when fretting?
Many don't.
One way to understand why it's difficult is this: image you have two keyboards, like a double manual harpsichord, but the upper manual is tune a perfect fourth higher that the lower. Now ...
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How do guitarists remember what note each string represents when fretting?
Here is a classical guitarist's view. A classical guitarist has to learn the individual note positions because much of our music is made up of sequences of individual notes, or has notes in a chord ...
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How do guitarists remember what note each string represents when fretting?
Simple answer is - mostly they don't. Each chord has a particular shape, and there are markers on the fretboard (3,5,7,9,12) to help navigate. I wouldn't be surprised if well over 50% of guitarists, ...
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Should I practise a piece at a metronome tempo that is faster than required?
I'm a classical pianist / organist, but I think practicing techniques are similar. The short answer: only AFTER you are super comfortable playing at the right tempo without mistakes.
My practice ...
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Should I practise a piece at a metronome tempo that is faster than required?
I had a teacher in the past who used this analogy: if you're driving on the freeway and the speed limit is 70, would you rather be driving a car whose speedometer goes up to 90, or a car whose ...
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Should I practise a piece at a metronome tempo that is faster than required?
It's easier/better to increase the speed of something you play right, than to correct the playing of something you attempt at the right speed.
If you are playing correctly at the planned tempo, then ...
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How do guitarists remember what note each string represents when fretting?
As a beginner guitarist (less than 12 months) I used a combination of things like making a mnemonic for each of the open, 3rd,5th, 7th frets accross the neck , with standard tuning 7th is easy (BEAD).
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How do guitarists remember what note each string represents when fretting?
It's been a long time, so my memories might not be precise, but I think I'd never count it semitone by semitone. I think at the beginning I'd count it by naturals, so let's say "string E, first ...
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How can you listen and judge where you are in the music whilst improvising?
There is a lot of good information in all of these answers but reading the many suggestions and tips can be overwhelming. I have a short and simple answer for you that is not technical and will ...
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How can you listen and judge where you are in the music whilst improvising?
A new answer is clearly needed, because you asked this four years ago in 2020, but now in 2024 the same problem persists and you asked about the exact same problem again (in a question that quickly ...
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