Klarinet Archive - Posting 000231.txt from 2002/08

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Abime Des Oiseaux Help
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 11:13:00 -0400

Alex (if I may call you that),
I assume you are talking about the "abime des ouiseaux". If that is the
case, here's a couple of ideas. You could be starting the 16ths too loud. I
find that with my students (and indeed, with me too!) starting a new passage
(no matter what came before it) is always harder if one tries to be extra loud,
extra soft, etc.
On the same line of reasoning, you could be starting the 16ths too fast.
16-note passages almost always have some elasticity buit in - especially at the
beginning. So try not jumping into the passage too fast, but rather allow
yourself to 'get up to speed' within the first 2-4 notes. Don't forget, the
hard note is the high e-flat, so getting to it too fast will cause problems.
I suspect that whether or not you pause after the fermata makes little
difference. Let me know if this helps, please.

Fred Jacobowitz

Alexander Brash wrote:

> 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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