Yes i know, practicing speed is not something that is considered completely kosher, but i also believe that everybody has encountered a moment when hitting his personal speed limit has caused some frustration. Politics aside, have look at this video:
[youtube]89ZtpOWEt4s[/youtube]
It worked as supposed and even more. For the purpose of testing i converted a exercise of a ionian scale played in thirds. For me this was a very good example of hitting a personal speed limit. No matter how much i practiced it i just came up to a certain point, after that development was very, very slow if any. The exercise was straight 8ths and very boring.
I did two conversions of the exercise, One where i converted the first 8th to a dotted 8th and the second 8th to a 16th. The other variation was the opposite, first a 16th and then a dotted 8th.
There where a number of things i noticed. First my muscles became sore very fast, something that doesn't happen too often and that is a very good sign that you are actually challenging your motorics. Altering the exercise this way means that you are playing half of it with double speed.
Secondly the intricacies of note duration versus beats became very apparent. Especially on the second variation where the 16'th was on the beat (which means emphasis) followed by a non emphasized dotted 8th. This took some focus to execute properly
Thirdly i previously had a hard time recovering from errors in this exercise. Since all the notes were straight 8ths picking up again on the fly was very difficult. The grouping of the notes made it very clear and easy.
[youtube]89ZtpOWEt4s[/youtube]
It worked as supposed and even more. For the purpose of testing i converted a exercise of a ionian scale played in thirds. For me this was a very good example of hitting a personal speed limit. No matter how much i practiced it i just came up to a certain point, after that development was very, very slow if any. The exercise was straight 8ths and very boring.
I did two conversions of the exercise, One where i converted the first 8th to a dotted 8th and the second 8th to a 16th. The other variation was the opposite, first a 16th and then a dotted 8th.
There where a number of things i noticed. First my muscles became sore very fast, something that doesn't happen too often and that is a very good sign that you are actually challenging your motorics. Altering the exercise this way means that you are playing half of it with double speed.
Secondly the intricacies of note duration versus beats became very apparent. Especially on the second variation where the 16'th was on the beat (which means emphasis) followed by a non emphasized dotted 8th. This took some focus to execute properly
Thirdly i previously had a hard time recovering from errors in this exercise. Since all the notes were straight 8ths picking up again on the fly was very difficult. The grouping of the notes made it very clear and easy.