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cellogram
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(8/1/01 12:22:35 am)
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faster faster
faster playing!!!
Can any one offer some playing / practice tips for faster playing?
Some things that may have worked for you? thanks
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dennisw
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(8/1/01 12:44:53 am)
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Re: faster
faster faster playing!!!
Use a metronome. Start slowly. Increase the speed
gradually.
I guarantee that this will work. But you MUST be
patient. Playing fast is more a question of coordination and
synchronization than it is a question of speed.
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Bob
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(8/3/01 7:07:07
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faster, you
fool!
What works really well is playing faster in spurts.
For
example, you want to play ABCDEFG
practice AB CD EF G until the
spurts are fast and relaxed
then A BC DE FR
then ABC
DEF G
then A BCD EFG
then AB CDE FG
then all groups of
3, and 4, 6
feel free to practice any small group as much as
possible. It also helps to practice without fingers, just figure out
the bow pattern.
Have fun!
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mvotapek
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(8/27/01 12:33:10 pm)
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faster
playing!!, and other ways to impress the opposite sex
2 weeks later, i'm sure you are playing faster than the speed of
sound by now...and having to deal with the time warp of listening to
what you played so long AFTER you played it...
the 2 replies
i agree are excellent ways of building up speed...slowly for
programming the motions, and in quick bytes for coordination. I find
even after using these methods to improve a passage, i often still
get tight and "choke" before making it through. The next practicing
i do is to start from the end...play the last beat, then the last
half bar...then the last bar, 2 bars, etc. I usually realize that
the passage isn't as hard as my body thinks, but there had been a
cumalitve tension building up that was keeping me from success.
Programming and coordinating the END well adds confidence and
teaches where to release this tension.
btw, it took me until
age 29, Smetena's Bartered Bride Overture, to finally figure this
one out.
good luck
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Josephinethecellist
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(8/28/01 8:28:22 am)
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Re: faster
playing!!, and other ways to impress the opposite
I'm working on several pieces which need to be faster, so I've been
reading with interest. After mulling over mvotapek's suggestion
yesterday, I tried going backwards last night and I see that this
trick has serious potential for me! My body forgot to do its tensing
thing and I experienced a fresh approach to previously frustrating
passages. Together with the two other suggestions, I think I have a
chance. (I'm contemplating the other areas in my life where going
backwards might be enlightening.) Thanks all. Loved your humor and
style there, mvotapek.
Jo -who shouldn't be on this board,
but learned something anyway.
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my
spleen
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(8/28/01 1:25:37
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Re: faster
faster faster playing!!!
I agree with everyone else's suggestions. In addition, the best
method I have discovered for learning to play a passage faster is to
practice it SOFTLY. When you do this, your left hand will
automatically relax. You will be amazed at how much more quickly you
can play. Then when you play it faster, try to keep the same relaxed
feeling in your left hand.
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David
Sanders 
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(9/3/01 3:21:37
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fast
playing
I've posted this on the cello chat board before, but Frank Miller
always taught to practice scales fast with separate bow. Also
arpeggios. It does wonders for coordination and helps you play
passages much faster with quite a bit of ease.
David Sanders
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