I recently found this excellent post on the blog If at first you don’t succeed…

Rhythms are a good technique to use when you want to bring a passage up to speed. The other common technique is to play with a metronome, starting slowly, then gradually increasing the tempo.

What the rhythms do is increase the speed of movement between notes, while allowing time on the longer notes to recover your balance (if needed) and prepare mentally for the next short block of fast notes. By changing the rhythm, you change which fast notes are coming, and change the challenges, like shifts and string crossings – easy when slow, more complicated at tempo, but with more time to prepare.

Read the complete post here.

This is an excellent blog written by a cellist detailing her practicing trials and tribulations. Also, she’s a big cat lover, which is never as bad thing in my book!

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