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Author: Vick
Date: 2003-05-26 01:41
Help! I am having some technical difficulties! Man, I feel like I suck at playing all of a sudden. I just started to work on the mozart concerto, allegro....I played it better the first time than I do now. All my reeds seem to not work, haha. It's all their fault! :D But yeah, I am recording tomorrow. Do any of you have any special things that you do to help you out in times of stress? I have deffinately seen my better days in clarinet playing. Maybe I am too stressed out? Eh, I dunno............
Vicky
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Author: wyatt
Date: 2003-05-26 03:11
just relax and take deep breaths. you will do fine. go with the flow and it will all come togeather. trust yourself.
bob gardner}ÜJ
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Author: Tif
Date: 2003-05-26 03:58
Maybe you're just thinking too much? I know that when I play badly (which is quite often, let me tell you ), it's sometimes due to me overanalyzing what I'm doing. Just go with it. The Mozart is good fun! I also agree with Wyatt here: relaxation and trust in yourself are good. I get yelled at all the time for lacking those two things, and you don't want to be like me
Good luck on your recording!
-Tif
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-05-26 04:45
You just STARTED to work on it and you're RECORDING it tomorrow and all your reeds are failing you. You played it better the first time and now (how many times later???) everything you do sucks. When's the last time you had a better day, Vick?
It's okay to start your day over any time you choose, you know.
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Author: allencole
Date: 2003-05-27 06:48
Perhaps your nervousness is being expressed in tense or rushed fingers. The Mozart is technically fairly easy, but only if you keep your cool and stay in time. Sometimes, being in written C can be too much of a temptation to machine-gun the fast movements. I also agree with the advice for deep breaths.
Something else that I've always heard is that on a performance or audition day, you should find some quiet time to go over the piece mentally. Last-minute practicing can sometimes sabotage you if you make last-minute changes is technic that you've already gotten used to.
Allen Cole
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Author: Gretchen
Date: 2003-05-29 16:18
Having technical difficulties? slow it down!! Play it through at a much slower tempo and get your fingers to remember what you learned. Being that you just started learning it recently, it's ok that it's not at the perfect tempo, and that you have some technical problems at times. Slow it down much slower than you usually play it and really make sure to take in every note. Then carefully and again, slowly, bring your tempo back up to where it was before.
Another thing that always helps me when i'm having a difficult time playing something very technical is to play the passage with uneven rhythms like taking even 16ths or 8ths and play them almost swung, or the reverse of that rhythm. Take other rhythms to throw yourself off as well like playing the 16ths in triplets (and yes, your emphasis will get way off) which is pretty difficult to keep straight in your mind. You can use any other rhythms you can think of too. Just make it as different as you can from the original rhythm. You'll find that the passage once you play it normally is much easier than you thought.
Good luck!
Gretchen
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-05-30 02:50
I find the biggest challenge with the Mozart concerto (and quintet for that matter) is fitting in with the ensemble and using a style appropriate. Obviously the technical side of playing Mozart shouldn't be the problem. I've played with Qunitet with a string quartet and I enjoy the experience much more than playing the concerto (which I've only done with piano, but it was in A at least). my thoughts
diz, sydney
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2003-05-30 04:55
For what it's worth, I am in absolute agreement with Allen Cole. I am a solid disbeliever in last-minute practice.
None of your reeds work? No suggestion on immediate action, but do take a few minutes in the future to find a synthetic reed of your liking. Buy a few, and maybe practice much of the time with one of those, saving the "good wood" for performances. You would not be the only high-level player doing that.
Regards,
John
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