I was lucky enough to get a whole row of seats to myself on the plane home from Chikuzen's camp last night. While on the plane I worked on things I could work on without blowing like my minyo trills and korokoro. I have been trying to smooth these techniques out and a good uninterrupted hour and a half of slowly working on these techniques can help you a lot. I start all harder techniques like korokoro with a slow and steady pace with a count and never go faster than I can do the exercise in time. Then I speed up as I can keep the consistency. I normally would have done this with a metronome and moved my fingers with the beats but in this case it was easier to just count 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and... I noticed when I got up this morning to practice that korokoro was much easier and smoother. Not perfect, but every minute of practicing perfectly is like money in the bank. I always devote at least 5 minutes a day to each technique and make sure I do it whole hearted with a goal in mind. That 5 minutes is much more fruitful than a lazy hour of poor practice. Practice perfectly and practice songs like you were performing them and your progress will be faster and your time used more efficiently used.
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