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As you’ve already learned, your first order of business with a new piece is to go through it and identify the problem sections: those phrases or sections that are going to need the most work before they become familiar and easy. Once you pinpoint the challenges, you’re ready for chaining and back-chaining. A small phrase or section works best, something that can stand on its own melodically or rhythmically, but it can be as short as one note to the next. Learn the short group of notes slowly and perfectly. Then move to the next group of notes. The chain part comes from the fact that each of the short sections overlaps with the sections on either side.
The Practice of Practice
Jonathan Harnum
Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.
Through hard work and Patti’s great love I have overcome much of this, though not all of it. I have days when my boundaries wobble, my darkness and the blues seem to beckon and I seek to medicate myself in whatever way I can. But on my best days, I can freely enjoy the slow passing of time, the tenderness that is in my life; I can feel the love I’m a part of surrounding me and flowing through me; I am near home and I am standing hand in hand with those I love, past and present, in the sun,
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
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