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Originally Posted by BFlinch83 Well I agree that solo/etude work is more musically rewarding and everything but excerpts are what wins the jobs I'm auditioning for.
It's not that I'm jaded or can't figure out how to do the things mentioned (I think of the cobblestone street with the wheels clacking during Mahler 5), but I just can't figure out why the new excerpts I learn are so much better than the ones I've had under my belt (so to speak) for longer.
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Brent-
Maybe it's just that there is more easily recognizable improvement on the ones you don't know. For example, maybe you pull out your big fat excerpt book and open to a random page... Berg's Wozzeck! You figure out the transposition, look in a music dictionary to figure out what the #$@% "haupstimme" means, practice for a half hour and all of a sudden you've improved 1000 percent! Meanwhile, you spend a few hours on pictures or mahler 5: maybe you get them a tiny bit more polished, but there you're moving by inches, not by leaps and bounds as with Wozzeck.
My guess is that your "old" excerpts sound just as good as the new ones you're learning, but the excitement of learning something new is making you think that they're just better. Of course, it's impossible to tell without hearing you...
-Jimi