{"id":17,"date":"2012-11-04T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/?p=17"},"modified":"2023-10-18T07:31:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:31:10","slug":"root-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/11\/04\/root-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Root Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Fix the cause of common mistakes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"wp-image-18\" style=\"width: 250px;\" src=\"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Root-Cause-Technique-Practice-Method.jpg\" alt=\"Root Cause Technique Practice Method\" align=\"right\">For this method you will need a selection of pieces and a notepad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Play through your music and each time you make a mistake stop and mark the music. Once you have finished one piece go onto the next. Try to pick a few pieces in different styles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For each place you marked a mistake try to decide what caused that mistake. Was it fingering? How about embouchure or breathing? Once you have identified the cause add it to your list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you have finished listing the causes of your mistakes re-order them so that the most frequent are at the top of your list and the least frequent are at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can now focus your practice on the areas at the top of your list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fix the cause of common mistakes. For this method you will need a selection of pieces and a notepad. Play through your music and each time you make a mistake stop and mark the music. Once you have finished one piece go onto the next. Try to pick a few pieces in different styles. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-methods","category-music-practice","tag-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesaville.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}