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I think I work too hard on things trying to make them ‘perfect’ right away. You do know yourself 🙂
Such as the low register arpeggio double tongue exercise. I could hardly do that at first. One day I spent probably an hour or more on it all at once. I wore myself out, it was obsession. Now I can play it easily and at good tempo, but I don’t think I did the right thing. I was thinking I have to MAKE it better as I was practicing.
I am just going to be repeating myself but I need to emphasise that you have the answers already, just reread your first two sentences haha
Not thinking it will GET better over a longer timeframe. Part of what Greg says got to me, the process focussed exercises are to slowly improve things not perfect them right away. It’s a different approach to practice for me. I have also noticed I used to MAKE my lips feel certain things as I was playing.
This is the toughest thing for people to overcome. Old wiring, neural pathways and sensations are difficult to ignore but you simply have to find a way to make a profound difference to your approach.
But now I see it is the process and the result that needs to be focussed on and not the things I used to focus on. I’m glad I found this resource. My challenge now is the triple tongued chromatic scale in the Andante stage. But I’m not going to obsess about it I have confidence now it will improve over time and it already has. I never realized that playing exercises easily was going to improve things, that not Struggling with it is the right way. Another thing I found is I should keep playing other material, today I tried that and noticed a difference in how I play it. Still down on range and endurance but tone and ease of playing have improved. Playing other material will also cut down on W.W. obsessing. And I have more of the tingling feeling, and cutting back on loudness helped as well. Still some skepticism but I will continue, because what is low-range playing for a long time expected to do to range capabilities regardless of what you are playing, right? As for my goals I hope to be able to play 1st part in some ensembles eventually, I have usually ended up on 2nd. And I’d like to be able to play what I want to play, which includes a wide variety of music and styles, and sound good.
You want what everyone wants Steve and patience is the key. Deep awareness and understanding of the system. Letting go of habits is the challenge. PLEASE JOIN THE WINDWORKS HARMONIC SLURE CHALLENGE, https://mysterytomastery.com/wihsc/register as I will be talking about all of this in detail.
Your choice is to keep doing things the way you have been for years, try my stuff with your existing urgency and psychology OR (hint hint hint) take your time, create a NEW understanding of an efficient system, learn the feelings of it and then slowly implement it into your playing with emotional detachment. PLEASE WATCH THIS