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Re: playing in the morning

Author: pelo_ensortijado
Date: 2007-09-16 22:00

i hate to go up in the morning, but that is the best time for learning, and so i have some strict routines that i follow everyday after breakfast, when i get to the practicerooms:

1. lie down on the floor. put the metronome on 60 bpm. breath VERY heavily, put as much resistance in the in AND outgoing air as possible to make it hard to breath. do in 2, out 2 for a while. then change to in 1, out 3 and after a minute or three, in a half and out 3 beats! this takes around 8 minutes!

2. stretch, or atleast move around all your limbs and muscles and stuff so they "wake up". do this in a moderatoish tempo. steady! not doing any harmful movements. your still just waked up remember! :P do this for about 3-4 min.

3. SING. use your ears. get the air flowing. only FF. pretend you are a great operasinger! sing scales, common singingwarmups, songs, make your diafragm-muscles feel some pain!
this one, i can do all day. but stop at about 15-20 min, or when your neighbours are screaming they cant stand it anymore!

4. now you are ready for the clarinet. alert and with a sharped mind! take it out of the box. assambly it with love. look and se if there is anything wrong, maybe clean it, kiss it, tickle it to make it laugh... no. :P not really.
but to take some time to go over the day. get your thoughts together. put up the daily practiceschedual.
(all this is really because one have to rest from the previous excercises!) = 2 min tops!!!

5. start with a scaleexcercise that does involves both legato and staccatto. exaggerate the staccatos extreamly to get the tongue awake. this will, if done over the whole range, take about half an hour. start at a low tempo. its not very polite to rush someone who is sleepy. :P i usually do it in about 60bpm

6. put the metronome at 55 bpm. start at low e and play the e in 4 beats, f in 4 beats. f#, g, and a final beat at the g#. the air is suppose to be out at the g#. :D then start at g# and work up to c. from c to e. and so on upwards! and then down again to the low e. i need about a 4-6 beat break between each "set" or else i wont make it! use as warm air as possible. that makes it alot worse! :P this can go on for ever. but about 20 min. then im out for a while.

now one can take a 15 min break and after that one are ready to start with the normal daily excercises and routines and so on...

its boring. but very helpful for the sleepy ones like myself! :D

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