David M. Erato

saxophones, clarinets, flutes, bassoon

Category: practice tips

  • The shed.

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    Using my iPad and wireless keyboard as a stand while I shed some flute parts on Gordon Goodwin tunes for tonight, using Capo to slow things down a bit.

  • Tick, tick, tick, tick…

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    From the Alice Gallagher Clarinet Studio blog photo credit: J. Ronald LeeThe metronome was invented by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel in Amsterdam in 1814. It was patented in England a few years later by Johann Maelzel, and the first composer to ever use metronome markings at the beginning of pieces was Beethoven, who started doing so…

  • The Journey

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    If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.  ~ Marty McFly Today was indeed a red letter date for me.  I completed a practice goal that I had set for myself over a year ago.  That goal was to complete an intensive study in clarinet technique.  It began I believe 2/19/2010, and…

  • Practice Tip: Accumulative Scale Technique

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    opening run in Maurice Whitney’s Introduction and Samba Have you ever seen a run like the one above and thought there was no way you could play it cleanly?  So instead you just moved your fingers without even bothering looking at the notes, hoping to land on the next quarter note or eighth note at…