When do you consider an etude complete?

[Rad Synner]

Hey everyone!

So I use the etude as sort of warm ups and such and I learn them and pretty much know some of them by heart but I cant play them at 100% speed yet.

So my question to you all, since I want to advance in the etudes and do more complex pattern, is when should I mark an etude as complete?

When I know it by heart and can play it a more than average speed or only when I can play at the maximum speed?

Thank you!

 

[idssdi]

I use the full speed as a sign it's complete but at the same time if you play it at a slower speed you're still playing the etude so it's really what you want to get out of them.

 

[Rad Synner]

I use the full speed as a sign it's complete but at the same time if you play it at a slower speed you're still playing the etude so it's really what you want to get out of them.

I mean, to me I really see them as sort of practice for the specific technique. And while I think I can do them pretty well to a decent speed, I am not quite on the level of being able to them full speed. But I dont want to get stuck on one etude feeling like I NEED to have it full speed before moving on to the next because at one point it sort of gets boring?

Point is, at the same time I dont want to cheat the xp and completionist system by just blindly marking things as complete so thats why im asking

 

[Firsty Lasty]

Imo the right time is either when you know it by memory or when you have decided to not invest any more time in it.

I would consider it perfectly legitimate to listen to an etude once, decide you don't like how it sounds, then mark it complete and never come back to it.

Quick edit- as a side note I don't see any reason to go through the etudes in order. Just pick the ones you like.

 

[Dominik Gräber]

For me personally it's Not complete If you can't Play it Up to Speed, preferrably with ease. But that shouldn't keep you from starting with Other Etudes. Chances are that by the time you have a complex pattern Up to the Speed of the one you know now, you will Play the First Etude at 100% speed

 

[Kfir Yaakovi]

Mark it as completed when you can play it 100% speed but backwards.

just go with whatever you feel, it doesnt matter I think.

 

[William B.]

yes

 

[Lindsey]

I think once I can play it fluently at my own maximum speed it should be complete, until I decide to work on speed. All lessons are at 120 bpm standard but that's not a realistic goal for many exercises.