Klarinet Archive - Posting 000119.txt from 2006/05

From: "Gillian Craven" <gillian_craven@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] fingers out of control !
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 18:51:35 -0400

Thanks, will try this when i practise tomorrow. Thursday doesnt seem far
away so I just needed any helpful tips! My teacher thinks its down to panic
now but this loss of control can easily ruin my performance !!!!

Gillian

>From: "Tony Pay" <tony.p@-----.org>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] fingers out of control !
>Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 23:16:34 +0100
>
>On 5/14/06, Gillian Craven <gillian_craven@-----.com> wrote:
>
>>>Every time I get to to the semiquaver runs my fingers lose control,
>I rush and it all gets very messy. I practise them for hours with
>metronome slowly, then faster but still mess it up when I put the
>piece altogether.>>
>
>Difficult to help properly without hearing you -- but I can say that
>it sometimes happens that people practise slowly, but with fast moving
>fingers. Then, naturally, that won't speed up nicely.
>
>Rather, practise slowly with your fingers moving really slowly, and
>then a bit faster with your fingers still moving only as fast as they
>need. Remember that in, say, an octave F major scale from low F, each
>individual finger can move as slowly as you like, however fast the
>scale is. It's just that in a faster version, the movement of each
>finger follows that of the preceding one after a shorter interval.
>
>Thinking of it this way helps keep you relaxed even when you're
>playing at speed.
>
>Of course, not all note-changes behave like the note-changes in the F
>major scale -- a trill, for example, requires fast finger movement
>when the trill itself is fast -- but usually chunks even of a
>difficult passage can be played with 'slow' fingers.
>
>Identifying them will show you when fast finger movement *is*
>required, and thus make clearer what to practice. (And 'chunking' is
>helpful in and of itself, of course.)
>
>Tony
>
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