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Re: Recording yourself when practicing

Author: Aaron
Date: 2006-01-12 04:34

I mainly use the recorder for two things (as suggested by Peter Hadcock in The Working Clarinettist):
1. I record myself playing a passage at full speed, then listen to it half as fast. Really points out a lot of flaws that are hard to pick up on otherwise.
2. For pieces I don't have a recording of but are hard to hear well played, I record the piece at half tempo. I then double the speed to hear the passage played correctly and evenly. I rarely use this, but it's a useful tool.

I use a simple two speed tape recorder that you can get from a local drugstore. Cheap, but it gets the job done. The only problem is that it doesn't capture your sound accurately. The sound is pretty crappy, but it's good for working through technical passages.

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