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We're going to start off this week with a few variable practice ideas. It can be very tempting to always practice things in exactly the same way every time to ensure you can perform it exactly the way you want, but the research is very clear that you will perform better if you vary how you practice things. When you don't do something the same way every time, you create a more flexible version of the skill that hold up better under pressure.

Changing the emotional expression of a passage is one of my favorite things to do - it's fun, creative, and always teaches me new things about a particular phrase or passage. It also means that if one of my chamber music partners decides to give something a different spin in a performance, I can trust that I can follow their spontaneity and not get derailed.

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