Practice Tip 2.22.14

“For example, students at the Meadowmount School of Music often practice according to an informal rule: If a passerby can recognize a song, it’s being played too fast. The point of this super-exaggerated slowness (which produces songs that resemble those of humpback whales) is to reveal small mistakes that might have gone undetected.”

Excerpt From: Coyle, Daniel. “The Little Book of Talent.” Bantam Books, 2012-08-21. iBooks.