Klarinet Archive - Posting 001053.txt from 2000/12

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Performance
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:51:15 -0500

Right On!! What you send into the brain the first time is what is most likely
to come back out the second time. Especially useful when developing new finger
pattern sequences (scale studies). I was told by a psychologist that this
method links the visual input (the scale patterns) with the tactile (the feel of
a specific key or scale pattern) and lessens the amount of concentration needed
to play a sequence of notes. A particular fingering pattern changes from being
a patterned sequence of a given number of notes to one individual entity. The
eye sees a learned pattern or part of a pattern in a given key and the brain
uses the memory of the tactile and kinetic to sent signals to the parts of the
body that will play the pattern. Do it correctly the first time as you look at
it and it will come back more accurately when you need it. I always loved it
when my 2nd year students (7th - 8th graders) amazed their school band directors
by being able to play all the scales in the Albert Scale Studies book.

GaryT

HatNYC62@-----.com wrote:

>
> A valuable lesson. However, Juilius Baker, perhaps the greatest woodwind
> virtuoso ever (flutist) said this (I paraphrase): "Never practice anything
> wrong. Play it slowly enough at first so you cannot play any wrong notes or
> rhythms. Every mistake you make you will have to unlearn. Speed up gradually
> enough so you always practice it right."
>
>
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