Practice advice?

Harrison · July 9, 2007, 4:58pm

I have to learn a bunch of new chamber stuff for a month’s time, and would appreciate some advice from you guys about practicing strategies. They’re all multiple movement works (a piano trio and quintet, and a violin sonata and a couple of cello sonatas).

I’m feeling a bit daunted by the scale of the task - can anyone offer some tips on how to break it down and cover it in a month?

Cheers!

da_zepp · July 9, 2007, 5:42pm

ahahahah chambah zhud only be ziteread

tiz unfair to da violin/cello/flute/oboe/mart horn/triangle mofoz if u prax yo part b4hand

haff zum honah

Harrison · July 9, 2007, 5:47pm

That is very true…

I’ve got the first movements of all of them fairly well under my belt now, but I’m not sure what to tackle next - the hardest bits, or just work on one piece at a time?

krittyot · July 9, 2007, 7:14pm

u know u iz fucked when da 1st reply was from da zepp who harzhly sight read every sheeyat since he was born.

take it w/ a grain of zalt.

opus_22 · July 9, 2007, 7:49pm

what are the pieces that you’re playing?

Harrison · July 9, 2007, 8:25pm

The ‘Trout’, Beethoven’s Trio Op. 1 No. 1, Cello Sonata Op. 102 No. 2 and Brahms’ Cello Sonata Op. 38 and Violin Sonata Op. 78.

Ashley_Tervort · July 9, 2007, 11:50pm

hahaha juz rely on a concept noen az ‘zemimemo’

ziteread thro da sheeyatz rptdly n u vil gain familiarity n u vil noe which zpotz iz bazically unzitereadable at tempo

izolate dem n prax

juz cruize thro da rez

Rob · July 10, 2007, 12:07am

SteinwayModelD · July 10, 2007, 2:22am

actually
dat’z lyk da firzt uzeful 88 tipz from da comme… in about 3 yrz

Obaysch · July 10, 2007, 2:55am

None of these are that difficult except the “Trout”, which has to be practiced with a lot of attention to technical smoothness. Be glad you’re not playing the Brahms 2cd cello sonata. I worked it through with Steven Kovacevich, and he admitted he always had to practice it constantly. The 1st is not so difficult if you have decent octaves.

Fake_plastic · July 10, 2007, 9:49pm

haha daim tiz tru

da_mildly_shreddah · July 10, 2007, 9:53pm

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Harrison · July 11, 2007, 10:37am

Thanks, guys. Maintaining even-ness in the ‘Trout’ is going to take some time…

e60m5 · July 14, 2007, 7:05am

Hahaa… word.

krittyot · July 14, 2007, 9:51am

y wud u advice a sheeyat that u urself haven’t done it b-foh?

tiz logically inaccurate.

da_mildly_shreddah · July 14, 2007, 2:22pm

learnin iz gay

casparvos · July 19, 2007, 4:00pm

I also played the brahms cello sonata. Playing it a lot together with the cello, was the best help for me! And you should study the last part very hard, itÂ´s quit difficult!

Obaysch · July 22, 2007, 5:46pm

Biggest problem of the last part (he’s right, it has to really be worked)
is balance. Playing this the first time is when I heard old line, “put a cello on top of a piano is good, put a piano on top of a cello, you won’t have a cello”. Bad joke, but it’s really a pain in the ass to not drown out the cello, unless that’s what you want to do.