I am really working thoroughly on my music now. When I hit a spot where I am messing up, even just a little, maybe the transition between two notes is not clean or I'm hitting one note badly half the time, I'm going back and working that little area carefully, carefully. Then expanding my area to include the notes around it. I backwards practiced one whole little piece today - didn't want to practice it from the beginning and leave off the end, and by backwards practicing I made it through the whole thing.
Having this much time to work on things, I can really see the improvement over time, even from day to day. I want to carry this with me into this next year. A little bit at a time. I have been taking on way more than I can chew, and right now I'm chewing it really, really well - it's digested music. Yum.
The other lesson from the day to day improvement is to give myself a break if I can't play it right the first time through. If I can't play it right the second time through, that's fine as well. I know that if I keep working on it, IT GETS BETTER. Like magic.
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