> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:53 PM > To: horn@music.memphis.edu > Subject: [Hornlist] My killer lick page. > > I posted last year about my frustration & feeling > overwhelmed w/ trying to manage everything I want to squeeze > into my practice schedule. I've come up w/ a helpful little > solution which is a combination of the recommendations of > Wendell Rider & Matthew Scheffleman (sorry about the > spelling, Matthew). I've made a killer lick page. Whenever I > stumble upon a particularly tough lick in a piece I'm > working on, I write out the few measures that really need > wood shedding on staff paper, cut it out & tape it to my > killer lick sheet. I slip this sheet in the warm up section > of Wendell's book. So every day after I'm totally warmed up > & loose, I take a few minutes to run through all the licks. > That way, if I don't have time later in the day to work on > ALL the pieces I'm studying, at least I've hit the hardest > spots. When I get to rehearsal, I'm better prepared than I > would be otherwise. It's a real time saver for me. If any of > you have additional suggestions or refinements to add, I'm > all ears. Thanks. > > Valerie, come back horn playing granny in Tacoma > ____________________________________________________________
Valerie - Great approach. Here's another thing that I do along with a similar approach. When working on those "killer licks," I try to vary up what the "actual" lick is. For example, I may play dotted-eigth/sixteenths versus straight eigths (the running eigth note passage in Til is a good example of where this helps). Another example is something such as the Tchaik 5 excerpt - subdividing while playing - in other words, play all eigth notes - such as in the first couple measures it would go: a,g#,f#,a--,g#-- I instead do: a,g#,f#,aaa,g#g#g# Just some thoughts - Cheers- Jeremy _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
