[TIP] Practicing fast notes on strings

[kevin]

Hello everyone!

If you're having trouble with your string instrument and full-of-really-fast-notes peice, then this is the right thread for you.

For my recital, I decided to push my self and pick concerto no.5 which has an amazing ending full of consecutive 16th notes. I was having alot of trouble getting all the patterns and learning them because it changes and it's hard to keep your left hand and right hand cuordinated(sp?). So, I talked to my private teacher and she told me to try and do this... Instead of doing them all sixteenth notes, try making a different rhythm. What she told me to do is (since I'm actually doing this peice twice as fast as I'm supposed to) do the first note an eigth note and then do the next note a 32nd note. So it's like a slow note and then a fast note, sort of like a jazz rhythm. Keep on doing that throughout the whole fast part of the song and then go back to doing it normal and it's SO easy!

Hope I helped :)

[i_<3_k.shee.]

kevin! I love how you're so into music like moi!

YEAH! my private teacher always tells me about how when she played in the Long Beach Symphony how she would have to learn the piece in like 2 days, she calls it 'quick fix'...so yeah! I use quick fix! But you can try it either fast-slow or slow-fast....I personally like fast slow. :)

[kevin]

Same here, but I always have to do it both ways just to make it harder so that when I play it normally, it's easy as hell.

What do you play?

[i_<3_k.shee.]

Cello. 8)

[kevin]

HAHA, that's sooo awesome! So do I. That's like the two millionth thing in common :-p

[i_<3_k.shee.]

Haha...YAY!!!! I told you we should get married!

[kevin]

Haha...YAY!!!! I told you we should get married!

Hell yeah. haha. I'm just learning tenor clef and I'd like to shoot myself. I can't think of what treble clef will be like. That will be torture because it's not inline like tenor is. Tenor is just like one string over :( It's easy but HARD!

[Millermagic]

You're talking about the cello I take it? When I played the violin, I would get confused, so I would change the time signature and I'd get it better.

[i_<3_k.shee.]

Haha...YAY!!!! I told you we should get married!

Hell yeah. haha. I'm just learning tenor clef and I'd like to shoot myself. I can't think of what treble clef will be like. That will be torture because it's not inline like tenor is. Tenor is just like one string over :( It's easy but HARD!

I actually learned treble 2 years ago...took me like 5 months to finally become comfortable with it...sheesh.

[Saint Jimmy]

Haha...YAY!!!! I told you we should get married!

Hell yeah. haha. I'm just learning tenor clef and I'd like to shoot myself. I can't think of what treble clef will be like. That will be torture because it's not inline like tenor is. Tenor is just like one string over :( It's easy but HARD!

I actually learned treble 2 years ago...took me like 5 months to finally become comfortable with it...sheesh.

I have the opposite problem! I've been reading mostly treble all my life then the sudden change to bass has me really screwed up. Any tips for that?

[i_<3_k.shee.]

Just learn it note by note so your brain doesn't get overwhelmed...and then borrow some easy music in bass clef so you can get fluent in reading it...learning a new clef takes patience...unless you are a natural and can pick it up in like 2 days. *sigh* I wish that were moi.

[kevin]

Just remeber one note. For example, I remeber where the note 'e' is in tenor clef, and I learned it alot easier. So just remember that the middle line in a staff is the not 'd'