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Challenge works

Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-07-15 15:08

The last two weeks I've been practising a Klez piece that starts at lowermost staff E and I've come to love (cough!) those throat notes. Last time I brought a Brandwein recording of that piece and we noticed a certain familiarity, but the whole shebang was an octave higher. Teacher went humming through the score and said hey, that goes up till altissimo F, you could do that as well.

I thought yeah my foot I'll play that an octave higher but he insisted I had it intus next week. So I re-set the whole score one octave higher, and it was a lot easier to play than I feared; playing isolated notes from a fingering chart used to yield esoteric results in the altissimo, but playing them in a riff isn't half that difficult (okay, I cheated and played them halfway legato, they're 1/16 notes anyway).

I wish every student has a teacher who every once in a while demands the seemingly impossible. (And I wish every teacher doing so has the intuition to detect such moments)

--
Ben

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Re: Challenge works

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2006-07-16 02:43

The best part will be in a few months when you break that piece out again, and you find, after a few more months of practicing, that it is now WELL within your limits and you're not having NEARLY as tough a time as you had when you first looked at it. THAT is always a great day!!!

Alexi

US Army Japan Band

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