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Re: Method for Learning Daunting Music

Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2021-02-26 20:45

The Last Easy Note

Take a difficult passage (not too long a passage) and play it close to full tempo but pause on the last easy note. While holding that note, consider what your fingers, tongue, and air must do to complete the passage before playing the remaining notes.

Keep repeating the passage, pausing on different notes as needed.

So if there are no easy notes to pause on, you need to use a different passage study idea. The Nielsen has plenty of those sections!

I learned this useful method from a scale book by an early 20th century oboe teacher, Fernand Gillet.

John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com

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