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Eliza Aria Grade 3 AMEB Practice Tips

July 9, 2021Leave a Comment

Todays flute practice tips will focus on Eliza Aria from the Grade 3 AMEB flute syllabus.

Feel free to comment below if you have any questions.

Video Transcript:

Hi I am Liz from Flutesoundscapes.com and today i’m going to give you some tips on how to practice Eliza Aria from the Australian Music  Examinations Board’s  Grade 3 flute syllabus. So in this video i’m going to cover what to listen for in the piano part to help you navigate  where you are in the piece because the piece moves fairly quickly. I’ll also point out what what harmonic structure to listen for in the flute part, as well as anchor points in the piece where you are  in unison with a piano to help you know  if you’re in the right place. I’ll also cover rhythm  practice.

So I’ll play the piece first and then  i’ll go into the practice tips.

[Music]  

So the first thing I want to talk about  with this piece is  just to give you a sense of where you  are  in connection to the piano. You want  to establish  fairly early on what this crotchet  beat is and then convert that also to the  minum feel, but let’s start with the crotchet beats, and you’ll hear it straight away in the  piano- and the line goes like this 

[Music] 

So straight away that’s giving you your crotchet beat  in 4/4 time. Now, because this piece moves  quite  fast you want to convert it into a minim  feel rather than crotchets.  So, [Music]  that’s your minimum feel that you can latch on to and then when after you come in-the piano has this crotchet moving figure. So it’s one two four, one two four, one two four, one two so on and again that is an anchor point that you can  latch on to to keep you moving.

Basically in the flute  part there is a harmonic structure that descends  and so if you think of the quavers  as like decorations and these main crotchets notes as the anchor points. So for  example,  at the beginning  you can hear 

[Music] 

That’s the downbeat of every bar so think of this these quavers  as like little decorative notes.

What  I’ve noticed  after teaching this piece to a few  students is sometimes students  struggle with the the rhythm of the  beginning of this  and what usually happens is either the  student rushes  or they’re a little late so you want to  slow down your practice. If you put  your metronome on  say maybe 60,  and that’ll be your minimum beat, now to get used to this rhythm just play  the rhythm on one note  let’s say-rather than focusing on the quaver notes – focus on where you’re landing on the  beat as opposed to  off the beat after the quaver rest.

Then once you’ve  you’re feeling secure in that rhythm  just on one note then  you can start practicing it with the  actual notes that are written . It’s also worth practicing this rhythm  with  the metronome on crotchets as opposed to  minims so if we double 60 we get 120, so then what you’re aiming for in the  quavers  is the anchor point of the downbeat. You you can accent where the notes fall  on the beat just for practice purposes  not in performance . But just circle or mark  where the notes are on the beat and  accent them at a slower speed  and that’ll help iron out the the rhythm  in this section if you’re struggling  with it .

Another thing I want to point out is in  bar 45  it can feel a little bit strange to come  in at this point because the piano  seems a little bit unpredictable but the  one way you’re going to know if you’ve  come in at the right place  is because the piano has exactly the  same melody line as you- it does have a strange harmonic feel at that point so  just listen to the piano a couple of  times and and you’ll know  if you’re in the right spot.

In bar 49  the piano also has unison with you and  this is a really good place  to practice the the rhythm as well. So you could again, practice- if you haven’t  quite learnt all the notes yet-just  practice it on the note d or another note  and play along with the piano ensuring  that you’ve got the same rhythm.

So that’s it for today! If you like this  video please give it a thumbs up and  consider  subscribing to my channel for more  practice tips like this, and also you might be interested in  checking out some of the original music that I’ve written for flute  of which you can purchase the sheet  music if you like it. I’ll leave the links down below in  the description so you can check it out  if you like. Thanks for listening and bye for now!

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