Once you learn a tune, take a journey by adding practice variations. This adds Desirable Difficulty which helps you learn it more thoroughly. But mainly it’s fun.
We’ll mostly work with the first quarter of the tune:
G1-2-D0-1-0-0-1-2-A1-D2-A0-1-0-D2
And A Part, Second Quarter
D3-A1-D3-2-A0-D2-1-0-1-2-1-0-G2-0
14 Practice Variations
- Chaining
- Looping chain sections
- Adding texture to chain sections
- All downbows
- All upbows
- Play at a steady tempo with a metronome
- Flatten the rhythm
- Add rhythmic variation to flattened rhythm
- Extract the melodic pattern
- Transpose up a fifth
- Octave talking
- Alternate between first quarters of A and B parts
- Play every other bar
- Alternate between playing chords and the melody
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Further learning
- Whiskey Before Breakfast
- Whiskey Before Breakfast Practice Journey
- Fiddling With Desirable Difficulty
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