Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2023-03-13 20:13
There are a few notes on that.
Firstly if you are actually placing your consciousness elsewhere, then you are not reinforcing much as far as clarinet oriented fingering goes. I have certainly practiced while the television is on for sure, but it is an "in-and-out" process......one suffers for the other. Or rather, you can get twice as much of either done in the same amount of time if you bother to not do the "other one."
Doing exercises that are strictly "finger exercises" without the clarinet I believe to be very limited in benefit. You can try reinforcing rhythmic coordination of the fingers with each other by maintaining a steady pulse to your movement and even adding some "snap" to the movements both upward and downward. However I find having the clarinet in hand while doing silent, FULLY CONSCIOUS fingerings of scales and exercises (not playing) is much more beneficial. Of course that requires thinking while you do it and we are back to the first note.
Finally, over the years I've been enamored with the idea that my stubborn, uncoordinated fingers and muscles had the most deleterious effect on holding back technique. But of late, I would say that READING (identifying the notes, intervals, exact scales and arpeggios efficiently) has a much more direct effect on fluency of technique. That is, if you KNOW the names of the notes as you move along a work, your fingers will find the right place.
The bottom line though is to be PRESENT and CONSCIOUS as much as possible for whatever time you practice and however you practice
...............Paul Aviles
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