Klarinet Archive - Posting 000672.txt from 1999/03

From: "B. Keplinger" <bcaslin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fingers eveness! How??
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:20:52 -0500

At 12:00 AM 3/11/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
> I have been really frustrated lately with my practices because my
>fingers seemed to have a mind of their own.

Here is part of a post I sent to the list a couple of weeks ago -- I have
some suggestions that others have not brought up:

>every time or two that I up the metronome [speed], I stop and do some
yoga-like
>movements (along with the breathing) before launching into playing.
>Besides (I am sure) staving of motion injury, I almost without fail play
>the passage more smoothly and acurately than I would have without the pause
>and stretch. I conjecture that this results from both relaxing the hand
>and finger muscles and giving my brain some extra time in setting to muscle
>memory that which I just played. I also keep the improved playing when I
>approach the same music after laying off it for a few days.

Add to that something I always do on nasty rapid passages: instead of even
notes, *intentionally* play unevenly, in a dooted eighth and sixteenth
pattern, while incrementing the metranome.
To add to another's post about taking a week off, you should always take
at least one day off a week.

Keep us posted!
-Bruce

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