The Importance of Taking a Break
I know how it is when you’ve worked on a piece for some time. You’ve practiced hours each day perfecting every note and it still feels like it’s missing something. Maybe there’s one passage that never seems to work right in the time or something you can’t seem to memorize. Here’s a suggestion. Take a breather from it. No, I’m not talking about a 15 minute break before you get back to practice. Play other music, take a break for a week or two. Sometimes it seems like an even longer break before revisiting a piece can work wonders. It’s a perspective changing event sometimes. Sometimes as we practice we get so close to the song that we no longer HEAR it as we should.
Take a break so that you can HEAR the music with new fresh ears and see where you need to restart your work on it.
I suspect that such a break will give you a new outlook on the same old challenging piece of music. It’s the kind of lesson that can be applied to so many things in life. Think about it this way: we need balance in all things, obsessing too much over one piece of music disturbs that balance and a break is needed for us to work at our best.
So, let it rest a while, look at other (different) music (different stylistically even.) Then, you may revisit the music and see how different it sounds.
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