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Starting Rose Etudes #1

Author: Garth Libre
Date: 2013-03-29 01:11

I just started the Rose Etudes #32 today. I really love the #1, so in I dug. I must admit that I am just barely at the level where such a venture is realistic but one must start sometime ... No? Parts of #1, I can sight read fairly well . certain very short passages that are low hanging fruit. What I noticed most of all is that the timing - the exact timing, is a definite difficulty. Dotted quarters into fast passages with sixeenths don't always or easily come out right on the beat. I must note that I use my foot as a metronome because I can slow or speed up timing according to the demands of the music and practice certain passages at varying tempos and gradually increasing tempos. When I was half way through the etude and ready to give up on a flowing rendition, I found that if I stopped trying to consciously get everything right on the beat and just felt my way through, I was able to put some feeling back into my practice. Tomorrow I'll go back to methodically counting out the time.

Do others find that they tend to abandon exact timing for a bit in order to feel it as music instead of mathmatics?

Garth, 305-981-4705. garthlibre@yahoo.com

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