this week's #techniquetuesday is something that i've wanted to get to through the rodrigo toccata, but i haven't gotten to really look at the rodrigo toccata in ages bc of other commitments so we're gonna do it with ponce instead and come back to it with rodrigo maybe in the spring?? will i ever get to play rodrigo again??? stay tuned anyways, erin and i do all these crazy exercise programs led by @autumncalabrese. in one of them there's this thing called a drop set where you do an exercise with a heavier weight, and then halfway through the set switch to a lighter weight. so here we do a measure at basically performance tempo, followed by the same measure at half the tempo. when you do the half tempo it's very important to check in with how your fingers feel pulling through the strings. this is an odd arpeggio that puts a lot of emphasis on a weaker fingers, particularly the middle finger, and it's imperative to feel the weight move through the hand. the second idea is where you wo...