Why so much wind about that passage of afterbeats. There is nothing to practice. As soon as you have a conductor in front, the tempo is kept (more or less) by the conductor. By the progress of that number, he is getting tired & the tempo gets slower.
NEVER EVER practice such afterbeats. This is nonsense. If you need to breath, never mind, breath at any place. Nobody will notice it, if you leave out one or two of the rapid eights, nobody knows that. If the conductor might ask the orchestra "faster, faster", stand up & tell him, "talking be easy, playing is a different task !" Yes, this number is quite fast, but not extreme. But practicing without a melody is terribly wasted time. I remember low horns in my former section, practicing such afterbeats in "Il Trovatore", just because in A-basso or such. But they did not realize, that the harmonies were extremely simple, no accidentals. But on the Bb-horn every #-tonality is problematic. ########################################################################### Am 18.05.2011 um 17:43 schrieb Daniel Canarutto: > Hello friends, > > I have a performance of La Traviata coming soon, and I must admit I'm > having serious difficulties in keeping a steady pace in N.2 (the first > scene of the opera, just after the Preludio). It is in 4/4 time, > played at 1quarter=172 more or less. I have four afterbeats per > measure, as you can see from the sample I uploaded at the URL: > http://www.dma.unifi.it/~canarutto/Xs/Tr2.pdf > > I'm trying to study this piece with a metronome, starting from a > slower tempo and increasing it, or playing a few measures at a time, > but it seems I'm still far from the goal. I'd say it's not a strictly > technical issue, since if I play the beats, instead than afterbeats, > everything goes smoothly. So it should be a mainly mental problem. I'm > wondering which exercises or tricks could help. > > Thank you for your attention, > > Daniel Canarutto > mathematical physicist & dedicated amateur hornist & lifelong learner > http://www.dma.unifi.it/~canarutto/ > http://www.corno.it/ > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
