Rob Schumann: In this fifth segment, we are going to apply our eighth note triplet to the C major scale. So let's bump this up to about 70, and then we are going to play this in triplets. One, two, three, four, five six, one, two, three, one, two, three, ready, go.
So we also start bumping that up just like we did the other subdivisions. So these four subdivisions, quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes and eighth note triplets really are building blocks for other figures that we'll play. You're not always just going to be playing straight one subdivision or another, a lot of times that will be combined. If you are able to play through a scale with these ones that we just looked at and do it evenly, you will be able to with some work, play just about anything and if you start slow enough, you can't play anything, it's just a matter of getting it up to speed slowly with the metronome.
One other trick is when you are practicing, if you start with a slow tempo with the metronome, a lot of times you can trick your hand into learning something. Once you have got the basic fingerings down and halfway memorized, you can then build up that muscle memory.
So let's take the same C major scale, and see that I was trying to learn a sequencing pattern such as this. If it was the first time you've done that, you probably feel like your left hand fingers were getting tight and then knot when you first started trying to do that.
One trick is to start down at 60 and play it with quarter notes or eighth notes or whatever you can play it as, and in this case, I will start with eighth notes. One and two and -- at that speed, it's actually possible. So I will start bumping it up a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time until eventually I am able to play that as eighth notes at 120 -- 120 is significant because it is twice or two times 60.
So really if I am playing eighth notes at twice the speed, I am really can think of it -- I can think of it as sixteenth notes. So I can back my metronome back down to 60 and play the same speed, but now I will be playing four attacks per beat rather than two.
So now, at the same speed I was just playing at, I will be playing sixteenth notes -- Once I am able to execute it with the sixteenth notes at that speed, I can then start bumping it up little by little and before you know it, you'll be playing that at sixteenth notes at quite a clip, just tricking your hand little by little and just speeding it up. So good luck, don't forget to practice with the metronome and you will certainly be glad to do.
Sharon Isbin: Hi, this is Sharon Isbin, and I am going to chat a bit about the Lauro Waltz #3. It's really important to feel the off beat actions, sort of a rhythmic counterpoint; you have a lot going on. Now, when this repeats, I do it softer.
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