Originally Posted By: David Snyder

Joe,

This may be off topic, but the answer is "can't get slow enough" when you are practicing.

I have studied under two students of Andres Segovia for classical guitar, and both of them encouraged and demanded slow practice, like doing pieces at 50 bpm--or slower.

That is HARD. You want to blast right through to cover up mistakes and sloppy fingering, but if you slow a piece like Recuerdos de la Alhambra down to 60 bpm you can hear every bad thing you are doing, ever bad tone, every place where you need to fix the vibrato, fix the fingering, etc.

SO, my teachers always told me, if you want to sound great when you play it fast you have to MASTER it by practicing SLOOOOOOOOOW dude.

How slow?

As slow as you can get it.

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I have told my students many times to slow down. If you can't play it slow you can not play it fast.

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