Klarinet Archive - Posting 000409.txt from 2000/02

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Rhythm training, was: daily playing
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:06:24 -0500

In a message dated 2/9/00 2:16:05 AM Central Standard Time,
nyip@-----.edu writes:

<< I apologize if it was a little bit confusing. I have trouble playing
rhythmically even. >>

A bit of advice. Put your clarinet down.

Read through the music looking at the rhythms, read them and understand them.

Try singing them with nonsense syllables. eighths note = Hot Dog, sixteenths
@-----.

Sing with the metronome. (don't worry too much about the pitches, at this
point any note will do).

Only when you can SING it properly, in rhythm, can you play it properly.

If you can't do this yourself, find a GOOD sight singing teacher.

Regards....

Walter Grabner

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