Practice the Bar You Keep Skipping

There's a bar in every piece
you quietly avoid.

You start from the top
so you never quite reach it fresh.
You slow down right before
and blame your hands.

That bar is the whole lesson.

The easy parts are already yours.
Repeating them feels like progress
and teaches you nothing.

Growth lives in the two seconds
you keep skipping.

Loop them. Ten times. Slow.
Ugly and slow beats fluent and false.

The piece isn't hard.
One bar is.
Go straight at it.

– Serguey Asael Shinder