OCT 2, 2012: If you practice something for an extended period with great attention to detail and finger motion, you may just get the piece of piano music you are learning too smooth. By that I mean that everything will sound a little uniform as well as ultra-polished. That may make you as a performer feel good about your skill level, but it may be too much smoothness for the particular work you are learning.
How do you regress that smoothness so that you get a little more rough edges? One thing you can definitely do is scale back your practicing on this piece. That will automatically get it rougher.
Another idea would be to take the smoothness you've got and add some deliberate edges to it. Try a different touch or play with the dynamics or the timing a little. Any of those things will give the performance some added variety.
Smoothness is good. But if it's overdone, if it's too uniform or too uninteresting, there are many ways you can spice it up. You don't need to settle for over-smoothness in your performance--no matter how hard you worked to get it.
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