Sep '25 • Practice techiques
The Best Way to Practice "Difficult" Runs?
I am teaching myself Villa-Lobos' Prelude No. 3. I am sure that most of you here have played that. In the first section, there are three "runs". In the Eschig version of the score, they occur at measures 3, 8, and 18. I was watching Julian Bream's masterclass on the VL Preludes, and he said that these "flourishes" should be played at a pretty quick tempo.
So, I spent a half hour today practicing the first run, starting at a slow tempo and working my way up. I still do not have it at Bream's tempo, but I would like to work my way up to it.
My question to you good folks ... how much time do you usually spend learning a challenging run? Do you practice a single run at a time, or do you change between the different runs? Is 30 minutes too much time to spend in a single day on 12 16th notes?
My goal is to try to commit the run to muscle memory so that it is second nature. After a while of practicing, I just closed my eyes and tried "feeling" the run to see if my fingers memorized the pattern.
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The Best Way to Practice "Difficult" Runs?
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