Music Video Lesson: Why You Must Find Your Place in the Score When You Make a Mistake

This is a livingpianos.com, your online piano resource. I'm Robert Estrin with a very, very important subject today, which is why you must find your place in the score when you make a mistake. You know what happens. You're playing long, everything's going fine. Suddenly you miss something and go, "Wow, I never missed that. That's easy." And so you just want to go back to the beginning, and go through it, and you probably will get through it okay the second time around.

But you're missing an incredible opportunity. Whatever you miss there has some level of insecurity. Now, I know how hard it is to find your place in the score. You just want to go back and pass that point. But if you take that extra time, have the music on your music rack, and find where that was and figure out what the confusion was that that caused that problem, this will prevent future problems. Because you might get it nine out of 10 times, and every time you miss it you go back and you say, "Oh, I know I can get this." But when you do go back, you're missing the opportunity to find out what the problem was and secure the memory so that never happens again.

My recommendation to you is take the extra time, and I understand how hard it is. It's even hard for me. Sometimes I'm practicing a piece of music and it's like, "Where the heck am I?" And it's frustrating. I get it. But I take the time, because I know it will help me in the long run. And I want to share that with you. No matter how long it takes, find where you are and that way you'll be able to eradicate that uncertainty that you have in that place, and it will never plague you again. I hope this is helpful for you. By the way, there's lots more videos ... extended videos on Patreon, which you can check out. Thanks for joining me. If you haven't already subscribed, ring the bell, and thanks all of you for joining me here today. Robert Estrin at livingpianos.com.

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