Author: SecondTry
Date: 2021-02-23 20:58
I'm not far from 60 years of age. Although I and my physician considered my head still "well in the game," there's times when I feel like my short term memory, well, isn't what it use to be.
I raise this point because sight reading music with large numbers of accidentals in each measure, especially which change from measure to measure, are works that I find myself having to considerably slow down the metronome on, and practice until passages have been "muscle memory" memorized.
Maybe it's as much issues with my music abilities that always existed as it is my aging brain.
Or maybe it's somewhat of a universal problem.
Take the 2nd etude in Jeanjean's 18 etudes for clarinet that I'm currently working on. For those who are familiar, the 2nd page of this etude is chock full of accidental changes.
Or maybe take current Clarinet board poster Tom Heimer's "The Most Advanced Clarinet Book."
By no means am I knocking either work: quite the contrary. Mr. Heimer, I strongly suspect by design, presents etudes with ever changing accidentals, so as to, I suspect, with intent in design, eliminate many of the cues players use to sight read, forcing maximum concentration on the part of the player: a good thing IMHO.
So, all this said, is there...."technique" for better sight reading this stuff and remembering what accidentals the player encountered earlier in a measure, when cues like melody seem all but absent?
Thanks.
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