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Counting time

Author: beejay (formerly barry)
Date: 2000-01-09 15:35

I would be extremely grateful if some of you wonderful musicians out there would share your methods on keeping time. I took up the classical clarinet about three years ago, having had no formal musical education before. My teacher tells me I have a good sound. I can read the notes OK. But, alas, I just cannot get the hang of counting the notes, even with a metronome. It's not that I lack a sense of rhythm, since I can play jazz well enough. That's part of the trouble. Since I can pick up things easily by ear, I tend to keep time by intuition rather than method. So what I need is a way of looking at a score and counting off the notes. How do you cope? Is there a better method than counting "one and a two and a" under one's breath.

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