Sunday, September 13, 2015

Unfinished Symphony Mvt. 2 Measures 103-110 and 244-252 (Orchestra)

This weekend I worked on the two major runs in the second movement of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, and, unlike the first movement, I had never practiced them super intensively before.

Included below is a video of the very first time I played the run in measures 103-110:

Ultimately this run is harder for me to play than the one in measures 244-252, so I worked with this one much more (even though I did the same basic exercises with each run). First, I got out my metronome and set it to the lethargic tempo of 65 (approximately the tempo that this video is played at) and worked at that tempo until I could play the notes with minimal, if any, mistakes. Then, I slowly increased the tempo and mastered the run at each tempo until I reached 86 bpm, concert tempo.

Included below is a video of 103-110 at 86 bpm:



As you can see, this is still pretty bad but I am working on it! (It sounds SO much better at 76 bpm)
However, the run in measures 244-252 is much better than this one!

Included below is a video of 244-252 at 86 bpm:





This still isn't 100% perfect in this video (I blame it on starting exactly on the run without any time to acclimate myself to the tempo in the measures before the run) although I have played it perfectly before! To achieve this level of *perfection* I followed the same process as the first run. :)

I will continue to work on both runs up until the day of the concert because they are the only challenging part of the second movement!

PS: I updated this after I published it because I realized that there was some sort of error that caused the last two videos to not play :(

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