Author: Matt74
Date: 2021-03-18 10:03
Karl and Paul gave some good pointers.
It's "sound effects". It looks like it's mostly 16th note chromatic runs. There are also some triplet over eighth "swells". FWIW 2nd and 3rd part are usually harder than 1st.
The hard part about sound effects is keeping together. It's much harder in band than in section. This can be made worse if the conductor isn't keeping clear time, or if the rest of the band isn't together.
It sounds to me that they feel like they are being pushed to hard. If some of your members are so stressed that they skip practice there is a problem. (They should show up anyhow, but you know what I mean.) A little stress can be good, but too much will cause them to freeze up and perform poorly.
You could suggest that the section individually practice 16th note chromatic scales at a very SLOW TEMPO everyday with a metronome, much slower than performance speed, without worrying too much about the concert. Especially going up and down over the break, like from low C (xxx|ooo) up to long C (xxx|xxx x). Then, practicing from low Bb (xxx|xoo) to high Bb (xxo|_ooo). Make sure they know the easiest fingerings. If they have the chromatic scale under their fingers they can focus on playing together.
Tell them that idea is not to slow down and then gradually speed up. The idea is that your brain only learns it if you do it slowly and correctly. If you can play it slow, smoothly, and accurately, speeding up is easy. If you do it fast and inaccurately you are practicing how to do it wrong.
- Matthew Simington
Post Edited (2021-03-18 11:19)
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