Almost all of your improvement comes from execution, not from knowing more. Once you're past the early stages, I'd say roughly 90% of getting better is being able to carry out what's already in your head. That means the way you practice matters far more than how much new information you gather.
Get specific enough that you can name the exact note, movement, or finger you're fixing. "I have some crossing noises" isn't workable. "I get a crossing noise going from D to E because my top-hand ring finger drops before it lifts" is something you can drill in sixty seconds.
One or two minutes of fully focused work on one tiny thing beats forty minutes of playing through. Short, targeted drills with your full attention build the skill, the confidence, and eventually the automatic execution. Playing a tune over and over and hoping the bad spot fixes itself almost never works.
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Strategic Micro-Practice: How Tiny, Targeted Sessions Build Extraordinary Skill
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