Klarinet Archive - Posting 000334.txt from 2001/07

From: Christian Budde <budde@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Preparation of Material, up to tempo
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 05:03:27 -0400

Hello,

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Anne Lenoir wrote:

> Part of the reason why is because I was beating myself up by requiring
> myself to play it perfectly from beginning to end at the slowest
> immaginable tempo.

As a game (when I really want to get angry during practice ;-) I do the
following: If I play a passage 3 times without error, then I play it
faster (always with metronom); if I make a mistake, I play it slower,
at least three times (see above).

What comes out: First, I always lose (thinking of fast as winning the
game), because the fingers get tired and I lose concentration, so instead
going from slow to fast, it is the other way! Second, I know the passage
by heart, because I read it so many times over. Third, I find a speed
which is comfortable for practising after some rest, but that is not the
slowest speed I reached during the 'game'.

In normal practice, I often use rythmic variations as you described
them. Best results by taking every second note extremely short but the
other notes very long to speed up my fingers. Funny results by taking
16th like triplets or putting every note despite it's length into triplets
or something. Or splitting triplets into groups of two notes or four
notes...
But one should not forget to restore the correct rythm at the end of
practising so one will remember it next time!

Christian

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