Author: brycon
Date: 2021-10-22 19:15
I suggest you make your own scale book, what early conservatory students called a zilbaldone or a "heap of things."
When you find a bit of music that needs further practicing (or, perhaps, a bit of music you simply enjoy playing), write it down in a book of staff paper and turn it into a little exercise.
Take, for example, the first sixteenth notes in the Mozart concerto: C-B-C-B, D-C-B-A (to which I could add a bridge back upward of: G-A-B-C). Move this pattern up to the second scale degree, D-C-D-C, E-D-C-B, A-B-C-D, the third scale degree, and so forth. Very quickly, then, these few beats of Mozart become something similar to what you'd find in Baermann or any other scale book.
In my experience, this type of practicing is much more intellectually engaging than reading from a scale book. In addition to working out your fingers, it builds transposition skills, strengthens ear training, makes you more intimately familiar with the repertoire: in short, it strengthens the connections among your ears, mind, and body, which should be a primary goal in your practicing at any rate.
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