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Re: How is my progress?

Author: Matt74
Date: 2021-04-17 21:53

I think you're doing very well. My ear isn't very good, make sure you're working with a tuner. Your high notes are coming along very well.

In a few places you flubbed up notes you shouldn't have, played a neighboring note first and then switched. IDK if this was an attention or nerves problem. Make sure that does not happen in a performance. If you are playing adagio (or whatever it's marked) and long notes, you should nail all the fingerings. If you keep doing that on the same ones, stop. If keep doing it you are practicing how to do it wrong. Play a few notes before to a few notes after with your eyes shut and get it perfect. That way you won't miss it in performance.

Play the slow part in performance time, it's slower. It should feel like you are falling asleep on a cloud. Also, IDK how you are thinking about the phrasing, but you need to bring that out more. Think of swells, or fall offs, or whatever works. There should be a beginning and end to each phrase, and it should be related to the other phrases, just like a good speech or conversation. Watch an opera singer performing a slow aria. For a visual image, watch a good orchestral director direct an adagio, but not one where they're trying to quiet everyone down. You want one where they're bringing all the expression out. It's very challenging, but you have a good tone to do it. IMO that's the hardest sort of playing, period.

I think your throat Bb or A was stuffy (?). That might be the horn. Your register tube might need cleared. Otherwise try the side trill key alternate fingering.

For the fast part, you are playing the rhythms and phrasing well. You can improve a bit by getting the style a little better, but it's pretty good. Try listening to a recording, or watching a movie from the 1920s or 1930s. It was written in in the late '40s, but the syncopation is partly based on the popular music of the earlier period. "Anything Goes" comes to mind. Here's a good one https://youtu.be/ZCaZCin3bRs Listen to the orchestra score.

Also, don't neglect the lower registers while you are working on the high parts.

Altogether though I think you are doing very well.

Make sure you watch this: https://youtu.be/i1za5qebqqo
And this, watch Bernstein: https://youtu.be/yTutmD40R9k (The sound quality is really bad.)

I like Stoltzman:https://youtu.be/KuT-3UPLf0k (I just about passed out when the lights came up. I had no idea. Wow.)

- Matthew Simington

Post Edited (2021-04-17 22:06)

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