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[Myrrh Music]

  I like your analogy Nick, washing the hair. Yes, I can feel in my fingers how it should be. I'll try to keep it in mind next time.
Well, at least it's working as I tap the top of my head - maybe I should have the melodeon up there!!!!

I'm going to forget the tunes for a bit and just try to get that.

Many thanks Nick.
Mary

[playandteach]

A good exercise (not musical, but physical) that works on the piano, is to hold down one finger whilst taking it in turns to play the other 3 (in the case on not using the thumb). So hold down the first finger, then play 2, 3, 4, 3, 2 on your chosen notes. Then hold down 2, whist taking it in turns with 1, 3, 4, 3, 1. Just a good little exercise - only a couple of minutes to do at a time. You can incorporate it into a fragment of a tune such as Amelie: hold the first note of each phrase while doing the filigree stuff. On a G/C it would be D efefe E efeCe B deded A cdedc (the little notes are in the lower octave to the Capital notes. In D/G terms I guess it would be  A bcbcb B bcbGb Fsharp ababa E gabag
Just a small thing to work on. Discard if it doesn't help.

[Myrrh Music]

Thank you for that. I'll definitely give it a go. Time to learn something else anyway and this will be so much more valuable than bashing on with yet another new tune.

Much appreciated.

Mary

[Sebastian]

Play the entire tune as slow as required to play the most difficults passeges without error, even if this means playing eighth notes as if they were whole notes.  You are creating neural pathways.

Never helped me.

I can play single bars over and over at a moderately slower pace to get my fingers (and feet) to know what they have to do, but playing overly slow - I hardly ever had the patience to do so, and when I did, I never experienced any progress out of that. (One possible exception was maybe complicated polyphony.)