Klarinet Archive - Posting 000223.txt from 2002/08

From: Alexander Brash <mactrek@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Abime Des Oiseaux Help
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:39:55 -0400

Hi Everyone,
I know this piece has been discussed at length before, but I couldn't
find anything pertaining to my problem in the archives. I can play the
middle section (gai, capriceux, etc) great...I can play the outer slower
parts great, and I can play the crescendi without going horribly flat. My
problem is the transition between the first long F# and the fast 16th notes
that follow...I know it's totally a mental thing, but I always either jump
the gun and start the 16th not prepared, trip over my tongue, etc or my
fingers slip and a squawk, or miss a Bb, or miss the Eb, it's always
something...if I just start on the 16ths I'm fine, but if I come into them
off the F# I get plastered. I've drilled this backwards and forwards, fast,
slow, every way I can. I've tried breathing to get myself into the new
tempo, listening to the different tempi on the metronome, etc, but at best I
only hit it about 50% of the time. Has anyone else encountered this problem,
and can you recommend any other way to approach practicing this section?
Thanks a lot!

~Alexander Brash

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