Author: annev
Date: 2013-04-01 18:04
Hi Garth,
Working with a metronome and feeling the pulse of the piece is essential, especially when you are first "decoding" what's there. Having said that, there is nothing like playing it for some one who is experienced (a teacher) and having him/her evaluate what you are doing. They can hear things that you may not realize are happening. I come to the clarinet with a background in advanced piano and am used to doing things like playing eighths with one hand and triplet quarters with the other, but I still found I needed some tweaking with the rhythms in #1 when I was learning it. Once I could hear and feel all the rhythms in my mind (carried along with an underlying pulse) they were able to gel into a reproducible performance. From there I had pegs to hang all the other things on that I wanted to do with the etude - dynamics, phrasing, tempo variations, etc. But those initial rhythms are really essential and a key learning to the piece (that's true for most of the odd numbered etudes of the Rose 32 and it does get easier with time). By the way, I agree that it really is a beautiful piece of music - I had a fellow student who used it as an audition piece. So enjoy, and if you can have some one hear and evaluate what you do, I think that will be really helpful.
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