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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000002.txt from 2003/01

From: "Angela Wells" <oneflute1oboe@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Re: Maintaining a steady tempo- hooked on the ticker
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:04:17 -0500

Lately I've noticed that I still cannot maintain a steady tempo by
myself when playing scales, exercises, etudes, solos, etc.

When practicing I have my metronome on almost all the time, eating
through batteries on a monthly basis. I feel at one with it, and I can stay
perfectly with it at all times.

However, when I turn the metronome off, I'll be halfway through
whatever I'm playing and realize that I'm not anywhere near the tempo that I
started at. It's not a matter of not being perfectly on time in order to do
more with musical phrases- usually it's speeding up easier parts in order to
get through them faster, and then having to slow down again when I get to
technically challenging parts.

How do I solve this? There are no metronomes allowed at semester juries
and senior recitals, and I'm a bit worried about my conducting too.

:-)Angela:-)
Music education major with Metronome Dependency Syndrome