The Parallel Tracks method to accelerate metronome practice

[@mathewkinnear3581]

Love this! Love the concept of “feeling small successes in every practice session”. It’s uplifting for even the hardest or humbling work on violin! Reminds me of the work we did in Furtive and Fast!

[@natesviolin]

Thanks Matt!

[@ramonl6637]

Hey Nathan, thank you so much for using the running analogy. As a runner I totally understand and now will apply it to my violin practices.

[@robertwaroff4303]

Thank you ! I'm started your scale program and the link to all of these videos are great! I am a beginner and progress is slow, but this is so helpful! Thanks again,

[@natesviolin]

Fantastic!

[@robinconnerat7302]

Thank you. From someone who "cranks it up" and can get bored! Your approach would leave the player feeling good rather than frustrated! Great!

[@TheSiegfriedkim]

I will try what you say.Thank you Mr.Nathan Cole.

[@EdgarAponte]

Hello! Excelent ideas, I do follow you and practice in your way. I studied with Margaret Pardee and she had similar ideas. She asked me to choose a tempo , then mark all the difficult passages and practice until all the piece was in the same tempo.

[@personalnotesmusic]

You are very creative in your teaching. :)

[@bravotuttimusic525]

Great stuff as always! Thank you!

[@adi_demian]

To approach a challenging passage in this manner is more than helpful. Alas, to make a whole piece a "sporting event" where only speed (or some other technical/mechanical aspect) rules supreme changes violin playing from an art to a mere physical activity. Soon, following in these tracks, we will be able to add Violin Playing as an Olympic event.

[@violynnkuo]

Nathan, your cleanliness and intonation purity is GOALS! 🤩 And I love how great minds think alike: Tim Kantor was on my channel describing his method for getting fast notes up to tempo and it is very, very similar. He starts with just one note “at tempo”, then adding one note before or after it, also at tempo. (Essentially, creating what you call “sprints”.) I also like to do what you do and practice the connection between sprints and chunks: what Tim and I dubbed “chunk bridging”. This is great to hear both of you approach this practice technique in a similar/complementary way. It also reminds me of the practice technique I learned from Kurt Sassmannshaus: starting from the end of a piece and adding notes/chunks until you learn the entire piece. I can see how your Parallel Tracks method can be blended with all of these methods! It’s so helpful (and reassuring) to see your work process with your personal markings. Thanks for sharing, Nathan!

[@billy7951]

Very helpful!

[@ElsweyrDiego]

how your green screen is so perfect? i try and all i have is a sea of green spill around my body :( could you tell how your setup is done pleeeease?

[@nicholashill9302]

Thanks 😁

[@bqstrings]

Hi Nathan. Love you videos. What do you use on your shoulder for your violin?

[@cheesygobblens]

Nathan Cole: “Needs some work” Me: Aight Imma just pack up then

[@retrops4261]

Even though this is a throwaway comment, since you went to check out the vid, I'm assuming you have maybe a passing interest in learning violin? The higher the level you achieve, the more you realize it can always be a bit better. (Look at that as a positive , not a negative) and you will find the challenge of getting there rewarding) instead of " packing up" We all have such moments though:) Nate's videos are gold for all levels of skill, (though some are admittedly absolutely geared towards more advanced skill level (like this one)) obviously a certain baseline playing has to be there before attempting this particular moto perpetuo:) Enjoy the journey!

[@jgunther3398]

Ha! Mr perfect struggles with a new piece in the same places I would. But seriously, I would use the same strategy, but I would never be able to be so fastidious, including the markings and so on. Maybe that is a big difference between us and a good subject for a video?