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Author: Bb
Date: 2002-02-22 22:01
I thinking about joining a youth orchestra. What are the thing I should start getting better at ?( Like looking at the conductor, cicle the parts where I play a solo...) What else????
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Author: Chrissie
Date: 2002-02-22 22:51
When I joined a youth orchestra some of the biggest issues for me were confidence. That's a big, big thing, but the orchestra will help to develop it as well. As far as anything techincal now... if you're in band, listen to your band director. =) Your orchestra conductor will say *very* similar things.
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Author: sylvain
Date: 2002-02-23 03:17
Watch your conductor, listen carefully to others.
If you play 2nd clarinet your job is to match the sound of the 1st and play carefully in tune. If you play solo, be ready and confident you can play them. And learn to count empty bars well. You might have less music to play but your interventions will be more exposed.
Enjoy the fun orchestra is a blast!
-S
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2002-02-23 16:39
It depends a lot on what your conductor wants from the clarinet section. Playing in tune with the rest of the section is always good- learn the intonation tendencies of your instrument. Listen and blend with everyone else, not just the other clarinets (often the 1st flute, 1st oboe and 1st clarinet are together). Be prepared for the conductor to spend what seems like most of his/her time talking to the strings. And start saving up your money for an A clarinet if you can't borrow one from somewhere (learning to transpose C clarinet music is really good too). Get used to playing and counting for yourself, not just listening to the section leader- orchestra sections are much smaller.
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Author: William
Date: 2002-02-25 14:39
Learn to play rhythmns accurratly with precise and well defined articulations. And be able to play in tune with others--good intonation is often as much "good cooperation" as critical personal listening skill. Due to the constant battle between our human "tempered" tuning (pianos, tuned percussion, what the human ear wants to hear, etc) and natures "just" system (harmonic overtone series), no musical ensemble is ever perfectly in tune with itself. It takes the ability for the individual performer--tuning via the human ear--to make adjustments to harmonic needs presented by the music itself. (Ex--the note which may be the dominant seventh of one chord will not want to be the same if it is the third of the next major triad.) Also, it is human nature to want to rush things, including rhythmns. So, practice with a metronome and learn to play different rhythmic patterns as precisely as possible. One of the hardest things to find in the world of music is a steady drummer--one who plays with accurracy and musical taste. That is also our challenge as clarinetists--steady rhythmic performance. More people fail professinal auditions on rhythmic accurracy than any other factor. So, BOTTOM LINE, my recommendations are for rhythmic accurracy and intonation as "Mas Importante" Good Clarineting!!
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