When I encounter a particularly challenging passage, I find I must repeat it many times, often quite slowly. Through the accumulated familiarity my fingers come to know the combinations and patterns.
MIDI files allow great flexibility in controlling the playback. In particular they allow you to loop a passage so you can practice it in a concentrated way. This capability is built right into MuseScore. Next to the play/stop button is the loop button (see the image below). All you have to do is select the passage, click the loop button and then play! The image below shows a passage in the last movement of Telemann's trio sonata TWV42:g9 which is quite exposed and technically challenging. To select the passage, simply click at the start, then Shift-click at the end of the passage. To turn on looping click the loop button. Now click play (or hit the space bar to play/stop). The tempo can be easily changed via the Play Panel: click View in the main menu, then Play Panel. Move the tempo slider up or down to whatever tempo you wish.
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Formerly a successful software engineer and then Mathematics instructor, I am now retired and keep busy as an amateur musician of early music. Archives
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