Author: seabreeze
Date: 2021-11-11 21:14
Bud Herseth, principal trumpet for decades with the Chicago Symphony, was fond of saying "Never practice, always perform." He believed in giving full attention to anything he played, including isolated technical studies, intervals, and scales by playing them as if an audience was listening. The object was to make them sound as good and interesting as if they were music. That was his version of practicing perfectly, and it works for clarinet as well as trumpet. Not only play the exercises accurately as written; find the alchemy to turn them into something worth hearing. Even he considered this this disciple difficult so he divided practice time into segments of 45 minutes each, separated by rests. He let his mind wander during the rests but clarify back to full awareness during the "performance" practice sessions.
Post Edited (2021-11-12 23:41)
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