

**Don't know your skill level, but if you have the score of Paganini's Moto Perpetuo, try the first 8 measures at a very moderate tempo - e.g., 88-92. If you keep getting things wrong at a given speed, you're going to reinforce your flaws. Put aside the material and come back to it later.


Then try once again at your most recent speed.īut if you again have errors at this speed, stop. Isolate the trouble spots and work them out.

If you have errors, don't increase the speed. Keep doing this in 5 bpm increments till you begin to have trouble. Set the metronome at a pace where you can play the material error-free. Use easier material** when you drive to increase speed. One of my teachers said, "If it's even, it will actually sound faster." My experience bears this out. Work first and foremost for accuracy and evenness, not speed. Just a few things I learned from my teachers: This, let us hope, will give you at least some help for the road ahead. You'll probably get a collection of responses here, based on personal experience. Simon posted while I was writing this so there's some overlap.
