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RE: Improving Techniques

Author: David Blumberg
Date: 2000-01-06 02:11

Abe Galper's Tone Technique & Stacatto book is soon to be released by Mel Bay Publishing. You can get from Abe in the mean time - a great, great book on developing those aspects of playing. Also see his Baermann III book titled the Upbeat Baermann Scale Studies. I helped write it (preface), and it is really good too. The most easy to read version of Baermann with eighth notes in cut time instead of 16ths, and is larger font. Luyben Music carries all of them.

David Blumberg

paul wrote:
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I have to agree with Sara. Get yourself a good tutor first so you know exactly what to do and more importantly, how to do it right.

There are some very good drill books out there. Baermann III is a good one, and there are many others. For instance, Southern Music Company has an entire collection of books from the masters that you can get for around $100 or so retail. Now that I have all of these books, at my slow pace I have my work cut out for me for at least the next decade or two.

The main trick here is to get the lessons from a pro to learn how to articulate, learn how to breathe to keep the rhythm, and learn rhythm reading techniques. Many of these techniques are hard earned, just like scales drills do for your fingers' muscle memory. That's why I believe that the Baermann III book is a good start. It combines both scales drills and some articulation drills to get you started in the right direction.

You might find Hite's edition of the Baermann III book (from Southern Music Company) easier to play because the notes don't stay in the very high altissimo range like the original text.

Another very good drill is to play music from the popular study books to learn how to make real music instead of a series of disjointed mechanical responses. This is where a tutor will be the most help for you.

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