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RUNNING NOTES HELP. FESTIVAL IN 2-3 WEEKS.

Author: puddingpoo
Date: 2021-03-18 05:24

EXTREMELY URGENT!!!!!! there are only 7 practices left to our big biannual band festival that's held nationwide where I'm from (will keep it confidential in case people I know find this). I have been focusing solely on the weaker players but they've completely lost motivation + the pressure by the conductor is pushing them as well. We're playing And Then The Ocean Glows by Satoshi Yagisawa which has lots of running notes (99% chromatics, 1% scalic). My methods of training their running notes arent too bad since they can get it down during sectionals, but once they have combined with the whole band or when it's the next day, everything falls apart and we'd have to practise from square one. Apparently that happens to them when they're practising at home too.

It got so bad that both of my clarinetists skipped a practice yesterday because they felt so terrible about themselves and didn't enjoy band anymore. I still have hope for one of them since she still wants attendance points, but it's certainly not right that a musician should force music out of themselves. They should be enjoying the playing. There are parts that are nice due to my conductor's added interpretations, but that was during the practice that they had skipped. I think i'd work a bit more with them on the difficult slow parts so that they'd hate the piece less but eventually we'd still have to practice the running notes.

Tldr; are there any ways to solve this problem of completely losing the hang of the running notes that you've spent so long practising? any ways to make sure you dont forget the feeling the following day after you've solved the running notes?

Edit: clearer details

Post Edited (2021-03-18 08:49)

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