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Working a tune
Why am I practising this?expand
- What it teaches
- How to turn a tune into measurable daily targets: key centre, form, and a tempo you can actually hold.
- Problem it solves
- Playing tunes at a vague 'sort of fast' tempo, so progress is never visible.
- Physical skill
- Sustained time-keeping and fingering security at a fixed, rising tempo.
- Theory reinforced
- The home key, its ii-V-I and the seventh-chord shapes the melody sits on.
- Improvisation
- Soloing over the changes with the same shapes you drilled in the warm-up.
- Ear training
- Hearing the tonic pull through every section of the form.
- Common mistakes
- Raising the tempo after one lucky run; skipping the slow, clean repetition.
- Recommended tempo
- Start 30-40% under your target and add 4 BPM only after two clean runs.
- Increasing difficulty
- Add swing eighths, then displace the melody by a beat, then play it in a distant key.
- Mastered when
- Two clean run-throughs at the target tempo, from memory, on two different days.
How to practise it
- 01Add the tune with its key, form and target tempo.
- 02Open its generated session and run the scale and arpeggio blocks with the click.
- 03Play the head and solo at the current tempo.
- 04Log a clean run to move the tempo and progress up.