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The Case for Rehearsing at Performance Tempo

The Case for Rehearsing at Performance Tempo 1166022 STA AMERICAN STRING TEACHERWWW.ASTAWEB.COM Feature The Case for rehearsing a T PerformanCe TemPo By Paul Trapkus One of the most popular rehearsal strategies for middle provide alternative approaches aimed especially at ensemble school and high school orchestras is to play slower than the rehearsals. performance tempo. Teachers often rehearse challenging passages extensively at a slower tempo, and in some cases, they Untransferable Motions may rehearse an entire piece under tempo until they feel that The problems with slower practicing or rehearsing become students are ready to increase the speed. We can probably all more obvious the longer we work under tempo. We can think of times when we heard a student hastily playing through probably all think of a time when we worked on a piece under a piece, not bothering to stop and fix errors, and we quickly tempo extensively, and then when we decided to start bringing and instinctively advised them to slow it down. More broadly, it up to tempo, it was not as simple as just gradually bumping one study finds that 99.45 percent of classical musicians of up the speed on the metronome. There was likely a whole varying expertise use slow practice http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American String Teacher SAGE

The Case for Rehearsing at Performance Tempo

American String Teacher , Volume 73 (2): 5 – May 1, 2023

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Copyright © 2023, American String Teachers Association
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0003-1313
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2515-4842
DOI
10.1177/00031313231166022
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1166022 STA AMERICAN STRING TEACHERWWW.ASTAWEB.COM Feature The Case for rehearsing a T PerformanCe TemPo By Paul Trapkus One of the most popular rehearsal strategies for middle provide alternative approaches aimed especially at ensemble school and high school orchestras is to play slower than the rehearsals. performance tempo. Teachers often rehearse challenging passages extensively at a slower tempo, and in some cases, they Untransferable Motions may rehearse an entire piece under tempo until they feel that The problems with slower practicing or rehearsing become students are ready to increase the speed. We can probably all more obvious the longer we work under tempo. We can think of times when we heard a student hastily playing through probably all think of a time when we worked on a piece under a piece, not bothering to stop and fix errors, and we quickly tempo extensively, and then when we decided to start bringing and instinctively advised them to slow it down. More broadly, it up to tempo, it was not as simple as just gradually bumping one study finds that 99.45 percent of classical musicians of up the speed on the metronome. There was likely a whole varying expertise use slow practice

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Published: May 1, 2023

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