The excerpt I worked on a little bit today was from Chorale and Shaker Dance II, from the measures 1-7. I recorded myself first playing it without any practice, then with about 15 minutes of practice. On my last post, it was noted that I had "blips' between the notes in my slurs, so I decided to focus on that. One way I tried to remedy this problem was to play the notes in different rhythms (like a dotted quarter note then a 16th note and repeating) to get my fingers used to switching between notes (*I would usually do this for fast sections, but who knows? maybe it works for this too). I also played the notes in pairs, almost like....slow trilling (ish?) i guess to practice switching notes more cleanly. With this method, I have eliminated most of the little "blips" when playing the slur in the high range. I will continue to practice this part and attempt to fix intonation, dynamics, etc. and work on getting out all the blips.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Document Practice Method
The excerpt I worked on a little bit today was from Chorale and Shaker Dance II, from the measures 1-7. I recorded myself first playing it without any practice, then with about 15 minutes of practice. On my last post, it was noted that I had "blips' between the notes in my slurs, so I decided to focus on that. One way I tried to remedy this problem was to play the notes in different rhythms (like a dotted quarter note then a 16th note and repeating) to get my fingers used to switching between notes (*I would usually do this for fast sections, but who knows? maybe it works for this too). I also played the notes in pairs, almost like....slow trilling (ish?) i guess to practice switching notes more cleanly. With this method, I have eliminated most of the little "blips" when playing the slur in the high range. I will continue to practice this part and attempt to fix intonation, dynamics, etc. and work on getting out all the blips.
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