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Author: janlynn
Date: 2011-09-27 14:13
this will be my first time memorizing a piece.
wondering how others go about it...
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Author: TJTG
Date: 2011-09-27 14:22
I start just by practicing it a lot. Then as I start wanting to memorize it I will being practicing recitation without the clarinet. I'll sing it in chunks until I can get through the whole piece. Then after singing portions I try to play them. If you can sing and get through the piece you probably know it well enough to play, and it helps you create a non-clarinet road map in your head if you get lost.
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2011-09-27 18:52
It's fantastic if you memorize a piece. For whatever reason I can't. I do have a very mild case of dyslexia.
Here's something amazing, some conductors memorize entire scores. Even as a guest conductor at the first rehearsal they also know everyones names
Sadly I can't remember those conductors. Perhaps one of them was Frederic Fennel from Eastman, the other may have been the late Thor Johnson. He was an amazing conductor. Actually both were fantastic. What a treat to play under them.
Anyway I got side tracked here, yes if you can, always play without music.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2011-09-27 21:22
First learn to play the whole piece off of the music. Then start by memorizing the first few bars. (play the first few bars, then close your eyes or look away and play them again a few times) Then add on little by little.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2011-09-27 21:44
One way of memorizing is to work backward. Play the last 4 bars of a movement several times until you have them by heart. Add the previous 4 bars and play both groups to get them into your finger memory and keep working toward the beginning.
When I get the solo part under my fingers, I take the piano score and play through, keeping my attention on the bass line and glancing up at the clarinet line if I'm not sure. This teaches you the harmonic context, which limits the number of possible notes the solo line can have and deepens your understanding of the music.
When you have the solo line well learned, you just glance at the music, recognizing several bars a glance and letting your fingers play them. In the meantime, you glance ahead to recognize what comes next. Ideally, you should never be looking at notes as you play them, but always be well ahead, recognizing the next section and picturing how you'll play it. This also lets you listen to what the pianist (or orchestra) is playing and play as a partner.
Ken Shaw
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Author: FDF
Date: 2011-09-27 22:20
Part of memorization is analytical understanding and part is rote memorization.
First, examine the key and changes, along with the rhythm.
Second, analyze how the melodic line progresses from phrase to phrase. There will be a beginning, a middle, and an end. Many phrases are twelve or eight measures long and will constitute an introduction, or a major melodic progression, or the coda, etc. Understanding the chord progression is also extremely helpful.
Once, the concept and development of the piece is understood and has been played for emotional and/or intellectual understanding, then memorization can take place.
Look at a phrase. Play the phrase from the music. Play the phrase from memory. Check your memory. If your memory was incorrect, try again.
If your memory was correct, add a phrase and repeat the process.
Continue until you have the entire work memorized.
Post Edited (2011-09-27 22:24)
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2011-09-27 22:28
One way to memorize is to make all of your practice a "memorizing" activity.
Pull out the music, read a few measures without playing it, cover the music (or look at something else), then play those measures. Don't read and play directly from the page.
In this way, you will be memorizing from the beginning. If you don't feel comfortable with that, play the piece once or twice and then start the memorizing activity.
Another method is to rewrite the music. Very similar method to this. Look at a line, turn the page over and rewrite it on blank staff paper.
Ultimately repetition is important.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2011-09-29 15:32
It's a gift than some have and some don't, I don't. I can memorize short passages but not full pieces. I think when a young person learns to memorize they learn the skill much faster than an adult because they don't realize it's a problem. It's sort of the same as learning a second or even third language. ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: Arnoldstang
Date: 2011-09-30 02:58
Take note of places where there are wide or unusual leaps. Prioritize these areas. Know what the intervals are.
Freelance woodwind performer
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