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Re: keeping fingers moving exactly in time

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2019-07-12 00:46

Hi David,

Thanks, I have started on long tones. I must keep that up. I have been teaching my son to do it on his french horn too, but must remember to do it myself. It's easy to get caught up in trying to play the finished piece, and lose sight of the foundations.

Thanks Ken also for your comments. It's really kind of you to be upbeat about it. My teacher is very good and is really focusing on this silence in my legato transitions. I can only clearly hear it on playback on my computer, and it shows really well on the graph, but I am getting to be able to hear it live, now that I have seen it represented as a graph. The graph is really good at showing when I have gone even slightly wrong.

I have been concentrating hard on support today and trying to breathe the transition as though it was a single note. I also find that if I stand like a song-bird singing, then it totally changes the way that my breath control works, and I can almost leave my breathing to drive itself while I think about the music, which is good.

My teacher says, and I feel, that this is a really fundemental turning point in my learning, and I would like to take the time to get this really right before I rush on through. The two books (Bonade on the other thread and Opperman) that have been mentioned sound great, but they don't seem to be available in the UK unfortunately. It would be nice to see those.

I think that this piece that I'm learning (Georgie by Emma Johnson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cjDWeFHHlI&t=7s) is also a great piece to test this particular skill. It's really tricky. I see that she has done a whole series of really good videos online, but very few people seem to have seen them: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2123087DE3C5FF2C
I'm gradually working my way through and watching them.

Thanks so much for all of your help. I will try all of your suggestions.

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