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Re: 6 Notes in One Beat

Author: hautbois
Date: 2007-02-25 14:34

If you have to play in an unfamiliar key, spend some time (a lot of time) on scales in that key. (And you can at the same time become more comfortable with the rhythm you describe by pulsing the first of every three or six notes in the scale....) In your warm-up for performance, play those scales again, to help pattern your fingers to automatically play the required sharps or flats without having to consciously remind them! (My daily warm-up up routine at the beginning of my practice sessions includes playing all of the major scales.)
Practice the passage slowly until you are comfortable with the sequence, and then practice it faster and faster until it is at or above tempo.
In working on tricky note sequences, it is often helpful to work backwards, on, e.g., the last few notes, starting slowly and repeating faster and faster until they are at or faster than the required tempo, and then add a single note from the preceeding notes (or add a small group of notes) and start the process over again, adding more notes until the entire passage or group of tricky notes is up to tempo.

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