Want to eliminate a mistake entirely in the most efficient manner possible?

The good old tried and true method works best.

If you make a mistake, any mistake, while practicing, stop forging ahead and go back to either the beginning of the piece or at least to the beginning of the phrase preceeding the area where you made the mistake and play through from there.

If the mistake generates itself again in that same area, stop, slow down the Tempo for that area and "woodshed" just that particular area. When doing this, playing it slowly and evenly will often allow the musician to pinpoint the particular foible that is generating the mistake. For example, a cross-fingering situation if the instrument is a keyboard, or perhaps a counting/timing issue within the interpretation of the written phrase, or a simpler matter of wrong note selection.

That is truly the most efficient (which also means fastest) way I have found to program the brain, hands and the rest of the body to be able to perform any piece of music.

Do note that the person in the first demo video given is quite the accomplished pianist, or at the least, already KNOWS the piece used in the demo (which isn't all that difficult to begin with).

If, when practicing, you find yourself making the same mistake repeatedly at the same point in the piece, forging on without addressing that mistake and doing whatever it takes to eliminate same will only reinforce the mind and muscle memory towards making that mistake again. This is counterproductive.

"We don't need no stinking crutches."


--Mac

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