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Re: C to A transitions

Author: jhoyla
Date: 2008-07-23 08:28

The exercises should be played extremely slowly at first, concentrating on eliminating the blip. Only speed up when you have it perfect. Try and keep your finger movements as small as possible - raise and lower your fingers just enough to make the notes you need.
If you find you need to press hard to get the notes out, your instrument many need adjusting in any case - it could be that the springs are too hard, or the pad and crown are damaged or fit badly. You should need only light finger pressure to make any note on the instrument.
So to summarize - short, quick movements of your fingers with light pressure. This is the ideal, and it is the way you will learn to play rapid sections cleanly. If you are pressing too hard it will be difficult to release accurately.

When I asked my local newsagent (in Hebrew) for cigarette paper he looked at me in puzzlement, and then his face cleared with understanding. "Oh - you mean joint paper!"

I didn't disillusion him - any protest would have been futile anyway :-)

J.

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