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Re: Gaining Technical Proficiency

Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2016-04-14 19:58

Clearly, your not tightening the bottom screw on your ligature enough.

I kid.

The suggestions already provided are excellent. They cover 99% of how one achieves on clarinet.

Some more refined insight along these themes:

* Never take a passage faster than you can play it accurately with no tonguing mistakes or misbehaving fingers. If you do, all you're doing is reinforcing, through repetition, mistakes. They will be harder to unlearn down the road.

* Recognize that no matter how diligent you are at slowly building up technique, you may encounter a wall that only, maybe practice AND time/patience may overcome.

* Recognize that even with time and practice, you may never be able to do this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb3ktqyDuKU

* Recognize one of the greatest clarinet paradoxes. To play difficult things accurately you must be focused, but yet at the same time relaxed--and yet difficult stuff makes us nervous. Resist metronome speed increase unless you can (I originally wrote "cane"---must be Freudian) not only simply play accurately, but with no more tension than under slower speeds.

* Conquer and divide. Break the stuff up into pieces. Vary where you break a difficult passage up. Keep it "fresh."

* Get your eyes in front of every bit of new music you can and play it. I think the sightreadingfactory.com website an excellent one for this.

* Resist getting frustrated. Forgive yourself.

Post Edited (2016-04-14 20:02)

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