Hey folks,
just wanted to ask for some opinions: do you think this is fundamentally bad technique?
I’m really at my limit with stuff like this and I suspect I’m a strong elbow-driven player with some wrist mixed in. To me it looks and feels pretty tense and inefficient.
I’m starting to think I need to learn how to properly anchor/stabilize my arm and clean up the motion.
What do you think?
Cheers!
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Hi Marco.
The short answer is no, I don’t think your technique is fundamentally bad.
If you’d like a longer answer, then here it is.
What is good or bad is a matter of values. What is right or wrong is a matter of morality. It has been my experience as a player and as a teacher that it is much more beneficial to think in terms of cause and effect.
Assess your movements on how effectively and efficiently they allow you to achieve your objectives relative to your individual contraints.
You are feeling that your movements are overly tense and fatiguing for the music you want to play, so they are. That’s all there is to it. No good or bad, no right or wrong.
You can explore approaches to reducing your background tension and/or find more efficient movements.
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