Learning music is faster and more fun with a metronome
Yesterday I felt compelled to get stern with my best student. He’s 14 years old. He plays well for his age. He also has excellent chops on Irish fiddle tunes.
But, it was clear from his handlng of Handel tha he had not practice seriously. I made him do the 3 times drill. I talked him [...]
When you add one note to a pair of different notes, you get a sound that is two or three times fuller. The sound is not enhanced by the bare 50%. It sounds much bigger, fuller, more complete. Why is this so?
Is it just a cultural factor of Western harmony? Or is there a scientific [...]
From Wikipedia we have “The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.”
(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle for more.)
Applied to learning music we get this, 80% of the benefit of a [...]
If there is any musical instrument, or even vocal, practice tip universally recommended, it’s this.
Go over tough spots three times.
Suppose you are singing a new song and one spot just gives you some resistance. Maybe it’s the words, could be the intervals, or even the rhythm. But it doesn’t go smoothly.
Then, stop! Go over the [...]
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