Teacher diagnosed why I’m hitting a speed wall So I’m the…
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Teacher diagnosed why I’m hitting a speed wall
So I’m the guy with the “virtuoso” teacher - if you recall from a few days back - so this week he popped a really interesting insight into why I was hitting a speed wall.
Basically in all my runs, almost 100% of the time I’m hitting a speed limit it’s because one of my fingers is hanging on a hair too long.
I was sitting through this and myself and diagnosed it as - say you’re doing rapid LH arpeggio my thumb might be hanging on a millisecond too long going up, and my finger 3/4 is hanging on too long coming down.
What’s happening is basically because the finger is hanging on a millisecond longer than it needs to, the hand is very slightly rotating in one direction or the other. Say your thumb is holding on but you need to keep going up the keys with the LH, naturally your hand will rotate towards your body to compensate. But you need to rotate the hand back to keep going so it’s a wasted motion.
It is this HOLDING ON + HAND ROTATION that is causing me to lose time, and at a fast tempo it’s either causing a speed limit or when I try to push it, inaccuracies.
When he plays fast passages I carefully noticed his hand is always parallel to the keysticks. He can generate incredible velocity this way. He won’t tell me that - I don’t even think he noticed that of himself - but you can clearly see it when he virtuosos all over the keyboard.
(This also applies to rapid octaves. He gets off the octave so fast, it’s like a hot potato.)
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So I’m the guy with the “virtuoso” teacher - if you recall from a few days back - so this week he popped a really interesting insight into why I was hitting a speed wall.
Basically in all my runs, almost 100% of the time I’m hitting a speed limit it’s because one of my fingers is hanging on a hair too long.
I was sitting through this and myself and diagnosed it as - say you’re doing rapid LH arpeggio my thumb might be hanging on a millisecond too long going up, and my finger 3/4 is hanging on too long coming down.
What’s happening is basically because the finger is hanging on a millisecond longer than it needs to, the hand is very slightly rotating in one direction or the other. Say your thumb is holding on but you need to keep going up the keys with the LH, naturally your hand will rotate towards your body to compensate. But you need to rotate the hand back to keep going so it’s a wasted motion.
It is this HOLDING ON + HAND ROTATION that is causing me to lose time, and at a fast tempo it’s either causing a speed limit or when I try to push it, inaccuracies.
When he plays fast passages I carefully noticed his hand is always parallel to the keysticks. He can generate incredible velocity this way. He won’t tell me that - I don’t even think he noticed that of himself - but you can clearly see it when he virtuosos all over the keyboard.
(This also applies to rapid octaves. He gets off the octave so fast, it’s like a hot potato.)
#audio #music
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