|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:59 pm
Hey everyone,
I've got some parade music to memorize
And I was wondering if you guys had any advice on memorizing music.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:45 pm
First off, if the song has been recorded before, find a recording and follow your part within the piece. It usually helps me.
After that, break it up into chunks. Play a chunk a couple times looking, then without looking until you feel ready to move on to the next chunk, and add it on. Keep going until you get the piece memorized biggrin
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:28 am
Melchiresa After that, break it up into chunks. Play a chunk a couple times looking, then without looking until you feel ready to move on to the next chunk, and add it on. Keep going until you get the piece memorized biggrin QFT. Parade music is usually fairly simple as opposed to an entire marching show, so if you take it in stride and pace your memorization (pun totally intended) until you can play it all the way through with no lapses, you'll do just fine.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:30 am
In addition to the other advice, you should also look over your part for patterns. Just like you would break a field show into charts, parade music is usually broken into fairly uniform sections. You have to know how many of each you have to play and how many other people play while you rest before starting another section. I haven't had to memorize any parade music in six years but I think I can give as an example: Centerfold starts with a drum cadence, then winds come in and my part had the first four phrases in an A B A B pattern but only the last measure of B is different from A. After that, there's a phrase off and a totally new theme. When that theme ends, the brass plays the first section again, then there's a trumpet solo and another refrain of the first section which has to be counted (I think it was ten measures) becuase my section had to play the very last part of the section to the end with a variation on the A theme. Knowing the number of measures in each phrase and each section is important but it's been too long since I've played for me to remember that level of detail.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:55 pm
Work on it in small sections (four to eight measures), and play it over and over, then turn it around and play from memory, then check, then play from memory etc. until you have that section down. Repeat with the next section, then join them.
Just repeat these for all of your music and you'll have it in the bag biggrin
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:00 pm
i play it over and over and over, aure you might get sick of it but it DOES work, also yeah, breaking up into chinks works too, but its boring to me, how much time do you have to memorize it?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:08 pm
Well right now we're just doing some small, hometown parades.
So no one really cares if you have no one on second part clarinet...
But I'd like to have the parade stuff memorized by our first contest, which is in September...
I think....
But by then we'll have field show stuff to do too.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:18 am
practice ...........and more practice
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
