Author: sfalexi
Date: 2016-10-25 21:10
Keeping up or slowing down with an ensemble is just something that has to be done. I've fought and fought to keep everyone together, but sometimes I have to concede that it's better to play the wrong rhythms, TOGETHER, than to unsuccesfully have some people play the right rhythms, but everyone be apart. No, it's not ideal, but it's a real world situation. Some people have more difficulty with rhythms or meters, and fight as you might, at some point you have to move on and work on things you KNOW they can accomplish correctly.
As for the counting, if your music is atonal (and I'm assuming mixed meter or just not easily counted), your best bet is to see if you can look at the score or really focus on rehearsal on listening around you. For most of my music, I rely on audio cues to tell me how far along in the rests I am. For example, if I have multiple sections of rests, I'll take one rehearsal and count VERY carefully, and if there's some interesting thing that sticks out or sings out in the music close to the end of my rests, I write it in my music.
For example, assume 64 bars of rest, but 16 bars before my entrance the trumpets enter, and 8 bars before my entrance, the trumpets play a key modulation. I'll write those in my music. Then when the rest comes up, I just sit back and enjoy the music. When I hear the trumpets come in I get ready and listen specifically for the modulation. When the modulation comes in, I now only have to count 8 measures.
Without knowing what music you're playing, this is the best guess I can give. But for me, audio cues work much better than counting if the music doesn't lend itself well to easy counting.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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