Technique Focus

Skip exercises - learn a tricky piece

Technical exercises such as scales, arpeggios slurs etc, are great for developing our playing and benefit us greatly when practised regularly. However, this is a time consuming pursuit and can end up giving us no actual music to play. If this is a familiar problem for you then skip exercises and instead take an awkward section of a piece you are learning and practise in a purely technical manner. Slow, precise movements in both hands, focusing on absolute accuracy will improve technique while securing the repertoire you are working on.