The Three I’s

📚It's Saturday so I'm in teacher mode - LET'S GO!!
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This is what I've started to call ✨The Three I's✨ (or my version of variations on "chunking")
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My three I's stand for:
➡️Identify
➡️Isolate
➡️Implement
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If we're having a tough time a section of music, what good is it to play it over and over from the beginning? I mean, we're literally training ourselves to be awesome at the beginning, and then stop and hesitate at the trouble spot doing that, right?
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First, we identify the trouble spot. Excellent. We are now aware of what needs work.
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Next, isolate. What we want to do is just play that little section. It could be trouble remembering the fingering of one note or having an issue with smoothness around 4 - pick one note in the middle of that.
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Got your note picked? Good. Add the note just after that. Then add the one just before that. Make sure they're comfy before adding the note or tiny group of notes before and after the trouble spot. Always make sure to practice IN RHYTHM, or if you're using the technique of switching off rhythms, be able to bring it back to the written rhythm before adding more notes.
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Make sure to add some of the passages going into the problem spot and coming out of it, because otherwise we can train ourselves to only be good at the one spot as long as we play it by itself. This is how I got really good at some runs in the Prokofiev sonata - I could only play them not looking at the page because that's how I practiced them. We want ultimate flexibility.
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Okay, so we got super comfy playing like 2 or 3 measures AROUND the problem spot with the problem spot included? GOOD.

Now implement! Put this section back into context.