Recovering from a slip
A wrong note matters less than stopping: keep the pulse, rejoin at the next strong beat, and practise the rejoin.
- Category
- Practice craft and performance
- First taught in
- F.2 Keep a steady pulse
- Theory cards
- Performance mode: one take (Foundation)
- Recovering from a slip (Diploma)
- Recovering in a programme (Fellowship and Concert)
In the lessons
7 lessons and 7 pieces where the Method teaches or uses it, in teaching order.
| Lesson | Lesson and piece |
|---|---|
| F.2 | Keep a steady pulseVorschule im Klavierspiel, Op. 101 No. 10 — Kinderlied (Child’s Song), Ferdinand Beyer |
| D.12 | Carry inner connections into a complete performanceIntermezzo in A major, Op. 118 No. 2, Johannes Brahms |
| C.1 | Hear an entire variation cycle as one workGoldberg Variations, BWV 988 — complete cycle, Johann Sebastian Bach |
| C.3 | Pace a complete four-movement dramatic sonataPiano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 — complete, Frédéric Chopin |
| C.6 | Preserve contrast across a complete late sonataPiano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 — complete, Frédéric Chopin |
| C.8 | Carry a twenty-four-piece cycle as one programme identity24 Preludes, Op. 28 — complete cycle, Frédéric Chopin |
| C.10 | Keep volatile colour under complete concert controlGaspard de la nuit, M. 55: III. Scarbo, Maurice Ravel |
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