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Re: Rhapsody in Blue - Ross Gorman

Author: glin  Date:   2007-03-30 03:26 FYI: The exercices are for working out difficult passages; not how to smear. Incidentally, my teacher is a strong advocate of varying rhythms to isolate where the problem exists (ie which fingers are the culprit). Other benefits are that by varying the rhythms, you end up training the fingers so to speak. After enough reps of variances, you'll find out that you can play that difficult passage to tempo and even beyond that. The most common variances for me to try are the dotted eighth followed by a sixteenth for a difficult pattern of sixteenth note patterns. Then you could reverse it (sixteenth note followed by dotted eighth). I'm mostly just trying to get the fingers coordinated in time so I end up slurring the whole thing than I am about varying articulations. (although you could, if you certainly had enough time!) David Pino talks about this in his book titled the Clarinet and Clarinet Playing. String players have apparently know this trick for some time. There is a publication for strings by Galamian that has offers multiple varities of rhythm patterns than the ones I listed above. George Lin Fairfax, VA

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