In defence of 'run throughs';
Learning any physical skill requires setting up and training cerebellar
circuitry. It is harder to perform an action if you have only read about
it. When it has been seen it is easier to understand. Repetition allows the
skill to be viewed in different ways. Practice is then required, no one
will be proficient at a skill just having done it on a course.
Piano playing is stiking the appropriate key at the appropriate time and in
sequence to generate a pleasing pattern. Having seen a piano keyboard
operated it becomes easier to understand how difficult it is going to be to
learn to do it. This is not helped by an explanation that I am now pressing
this key whilst my foot is on this pedal.
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