Klarinet Archive - Posting 000077.txt from 2009/04

From: John Dablin <jdablin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] How to count 87 bars rest, chat with your associate, wonder what's for supper and not miss your next entry.
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:00:19 -0400

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Michael Nichols wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Martin Brown
<martin.brown@-----.com> wrote:
> > Chisanbop
>
> I use fingers on both hands to count rests, too, but specifically
> using chisanbop hadn't occurred to me. What a neat idea!
> Thanks!
>
> (Wish I knew about this trick when I played the orchestra version
> of Wieniawski's Scherzo-Tarantelle--my part had something like
> 111 measures of rest with no cue notes)
>

Ideally, listen to the music in the long rest and get to know how
your entry fits in with the rest. Then you don't need to count
exactly. Easier if it's a familiar work and there are several
rehearsals of course, I doubt if I could do it for an atonal piece!

John Dablin
Aylesbury UK

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