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Re: Sticky transitions

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-08-15 12:54

I am NOT familiar with the "leading" concept, and don't (as of this first exposure) find myself liking it very much. Your tone holes are OPEN or they are CLOSED (example: for notes that are just dictated by pad/cups, how would you get the mechanism to 'lead?').

You CAN, at slow tempos, moderate the speed at which you come off a tone hole (or open a key) or close a tone hole so that the transition is not abrupt (I think Keith Stein referred to this as 'moving as if your fingers were suspended from spider webs'). The idea here is obvious, you are making the beginning of the next note purposely less distinct.

But I would NEVER, NEVER suggest to anyone to try and 'uncoordinate' your finger movements........EVER!!!!! This may be the very thing that trips you up at fast speed (you are literally tripping over your fingers).

And I would further add that if you are TRULY moving your fingers properly from note-to-note at a S-L-O-W tempo (it should be ROCK steady; deadly accurate), then picking up the tempo is merely academic; only a shift, and should be VERY easy.

..................Paul Aviles

Post Edited (2014-08-15 17:50)

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