Finger Soccer
You have a new song that you really look forward to learning. You have played it through a few times SLOWLY (because I know you listened to my advice from that other post, where I talked about how much more important it is to be steady than to be fast). You love this song, and you are ready to get to work. What do you do next? I usually allow myself to play my new song through frontwards again, but this time I have to do a number of things while playing. Firstly, I slow down even more , and I count out loud. (Okay, I count under my breath, because I always feel demented when I’m counting aloud. Also, my family is usually at home. But I do make actual sounds with my voice. ) Dawn Hudson, "Counting Kids" License: CC0 Public Domain Secondly, I will plan to stop and start a little, and I may repeat a phrase here and there before continuing. I write in a few note names if there is a section with a lot of leger lines or a note that I keep playing wrong. I ...