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Re: Technique

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-10-01 23:33

Bob Bernardo wrote:

> My first post in about 2 years or so. I kind of missed this
> cool place! Had 5 surgeries, 2 elbow and 3 sinus surgeries,
> then I started a music company. Well I'm back!
>

Welcome back!

> I was chatting with Ricardo Morales a few months ago ...
> If he's preparing a piece and it's in the key of B, or C#, any
> key for that matter he practices all sorts of scales in that
> key to get his fingers, tonguing, arpeggios everything in sync.
> So if he gets the scales down smoothly playing the actual piece
> is a lot easier. I really liked that conversation!

Again, Morales is starting from a level that few of us will ever attain. The principal can be useful. The practice may or may not require easier materials than the Baermann scales and interval studies.

seabreeze wrote:

> Staccato is hard only if you don't practice it much. Ricardo
> Morales tells students to practice the Baermann scales and
> arpeggios with staccato articulation.

Morales does some amazing things - I've heard him play the coda section of the Weber Concertino completely articulated - no slurs that I caught anywhere and with no compromise in the tempo. His playing level is certainly worth aspiring to, but most of us will never reach it.

> faster tonguing will eventually become second nature to you
> (if of course, you are physically doing it right with a
> continuous air stream, relatively relaxed tongue, and efficient
> tongue position). It's virtually guaranteed.

I don't think any book will make faster tonguing second-nature. Realistically, some us are more naturally gifted than others with dexterity in specific muscles. And your parenthetical caveat is on target - if the execution is flawed, practicing incorrectly won't improve things much.

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