DELIBERATE PRACTICE TUTORIAL

DELIBERATE PRACTICE TUTORIAL
HOW TO USE DELIBERATE PRACTICE TO FIX ‘HOLES’
IN YOUR TECHNIQUEPRACTICAL TUTORIAL 2: USING DELIBERATE PRACTICE TO
CORRECT AN ISOLATED FAULT
This tutorial looks at using ‘the deliberate practice’ way to correct an
isolated fault.
First up, let’s get some background information. This tutorial came
about as a result of some emails with one of my bass students, a guy
called Todd. Todd is a beginner -and in the first few lessons it became
clear that he needed to work on his right hand technique (plucking hand
technique so as not to confuse you ‘lefties’ out there).
He had two problems to correct - firstly I teach a version of the ‘float-
ing thumb’ technique whereby your thumb rests on different strings
depending on where you are playing, primarily to act as a mute on the
lower strings. And I also teach alternating two finger plucking.
Now when Todd came to me his right hand technique was based on
anchoring his thumb on the pick up and plucking with one hand. So
one of the things we’ve been working on is changing that to the floating
thumb AND alternating two fingers.
And I’m pleased to say he’s making great progress. Which I duly noted
and complimented him upon in his latest lesson critique. In his email
back to me he noted that it was getting better, but that he was still
having problems making smooth transitions from the E string to the D
string, or ...