The song can't end and start over just because you threw clams. In your case, it's the mindset of playing in front of others that's important. Most likely, it's time, intonation, dynamics, and listening to others, but it could be other things. "With people" because you have a set of things you think are important, but when you play with others, your failing are clear and they will let you know. I've said that, if possible, you should play with people and in front of people. Capture the feel, and know "the story" of the music, and that will sustain you through missed notes. These kinds of emotional "through-lines" in music can carry us along even when "surface detail" (like notes, rhythms, dynamics, etc.) eludes us.Ĭonsider that when you speak, you can forget a word, use the wrong word, stumble, forget what you were saying, and the person you're talking to still gets your meaning, because they have a feel for what you were saying. What is happening in the phrase of which they're a part? Is it climactic? Tragic? Exciting? Is there a specific image or story involved? And what role does this note, chord, or passage play within that meaning? Is it the high point? A rest point? A passing-through point? When a mistake occurs, it is crucial, beyond just drilling the notes, to ask what those notes mean. Mistakes - and the difficultly in continuing past them - often stem from an incomplete connection with the feeling of the music. In addition to the "mechanical" practice described above, there is also the musical/emotional meaning of the piece. This will force your mind, ear, and fingers to learn to music from many different perspectives, and when done sufficiently, will carry you through even when mistakes are made. Try starting in the middle of a random spot near X.
Then start at the beginning of the phrase. The starting point to fixing this kind of problem is to practice starting from different places in the music - first with the sheet to help, then from memory. If there's a different starting place, or a wrong turn, or the familiar trip is somehow interrupted, one becomes lost unless there's good enough knowledge of what went wrong, the surrounding area, or some other cue to help get back on track. It's similar to traveling to a familiar location when one always starts and end the trip from the same places.
Thus, the music must be restarted from the very beginning. There are no other memory sources (e.g., knowing each individual note, the harmonies, being able to play by ear) to back things up. When the sound or the muscle memory is interrupted, the performer becomes lost. The "mechanical" solutionīeginners tend to learn music by developing muscle memory that is associated with the sounds of that music. The most common cause I've encountered for this kind or problem is practicing primarily from the beginning a piece.
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