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Don’t Slip on that Banana Peel: Preparing Unevenly Measured Runs for Clean, Reliable Execution

Don’t Slip on that Banana Peel: Preparing Unevenly Measured Runs for Clean, Reliable Execution 1146961 STA American String Teacherwww.astaweb.com Feature DON’T SLIP ON THAT BANANA PEEL: PrEPArINg UNEvENL y MEASUrED rUNS fOr CLEAN, rELIABLE ExECUTION By William Herzog Extremely rapid, long, irregularly measured runs. They Skill 1: Exercises for Left-Hand Coordination appear in nearly every piece of virtuosic repertoire and When to use: are flawlessly executed in recordings made by great artists. However, for nearly all students, from those beginning their • When unfamiliar with a passage. first show piece to the advanced graduate student, these • When unable to play a passage at speed. passages—which either have notes of more than one rhythmic • When fingers come down in the wrong order. value, such as sixteenth notes, quintuplets, and triplets, or • When execution is uneven. are simply notated as something like a 20-let—frequently represent points of fear and worry. It can seem that no matter Left-hand coordination exercises include practicing how much practice and preparation is done, there is a chance passages in different rhythms, using groupings, and that things will go horribly astray on stage. Performances often playing with beat shifts. The goal of these exercises is to lack note clarity—especially at the end of the run. I call these http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American String Teacher SAGE

Don’t Slip on that Banana Peel: Preparing Unevenly Measured Runs for Clean, Reliable Execution

Herzog, William
American String Teacher , Volume 73 (1): 7 – Feb 1, 2023
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1146961 STA American String Teacherwww.astaweb.com Feature DON’T SLIP ON THAT BANANA PEEL: PrEPArINg UNEvENL y MEASUrED rUNS fOr CLEAN, rELIABLE ExECUTION By William Herzog Extremely rapid, long, irregularly measured runs. They Skill 1: Exercises for Left-Hand Coordination appear in nearly every piece of virtuosic repertoire and When to use: are flawlessly executed in recordings made by great artists. However, for nearly all students, from those beginning their • When unfamiliar with a passage. first show piece to the advanced graduate student, these • When unable to play a passage at speed. passages—which either have notes of more than one rhythmic • When fingers come down in the wrong order. value, such as sixteenth notes, quintuplets, and triplets, or • When execution is uneven. are simply notated as something like a 20-let—frequently represent points of fear and worry. It can seem that no matter Left-hand coordination exercises include practicing how much practice and preparation is done, there is a chance passages in different rhythms, using groupings, and that things will go horribly astray on stage. Performances often playing with beat shifts. The goal of these exercises is to lack note clarity—especially at the end of the run. I call these

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