Klarinet Archive - Posting 000063.txt from 1998/01

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: re:learning difficult passages
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 08:13:25 -0500

If your fingers hurt after a while, you are pounding the keys excessively.
Think of a rubber band - a little tension makes a good spring, too much,
and it's like over stretching the band - too little, and there is no spring
at all.
Also practice by changing the rhythms of the passages for example: a
sixteenth passage of even notes can be learned by making every other note
longer like 1-----2,3-----,4 1-----2,3--------4 then reversing the rhythm
1,2-------,3,4------- 1,2------,3,4-------- this gives the brain a break
every other note. By reversing the rhythm, the break is on the other note.
It is great for "pounding" the notes into your fingers, and brain.

David C. Blumberg
reedman@-----.com

Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 16:40:01 PST
From: "Lane White" <lanewhite@-----.com>
Subject: Re: rapid fingering help!!