Cool. Your teacher knows far more than I, but I did study with one of Chafee's long-time students post-grad at Berklee and picked up what I could.Exactly! Precisely! That's what my teacher told me to do. I'm still working on technique, simply not on repetitive exercises like do purely Stone Killer or Finger technique, which are important, but not necessary to do 3h a day.
I started today Sticking Patterns and I'm loving it. It's a good challenge to sight read together with figuring out the stickings to use with Moeller and such.
I'm also going through the Time Functional Patterns which I did in the past and love it.
Yeah sticking patterns introduced a new way of approaching playing and helped sight-reading. Just the first single-quad accents pages helped a lot for me. jmo be sure you lead with your left hand as much or more than right, really exaggerate the moeller whipping motion and keep the low strokes as low as possible. That's probably where I got the most out of moeller and patterns, the extremely slow practice and exaggerated motions.
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