June 8th, 2009 by admin
1. Play through the piece. This is intuitive. If you are going to learn how to play a piece of music you need to play it many times. You have to play through it the first time.
In the first few times you go through the whole piece, play or sing slowly with attention to what [...]
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May 11th, 2009 by admin
The current issue of Strings, June 2009, asserts in a small review of the Bach Brandenburg Concertos that the conductor on this recording chose to perform them “in the French Baroque pitch of A = 392 Hz….”
The purpose of this short essay is to highlight the significance of that frequency in relation to natural pitch. [...]
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September 28th, 2008 by admin
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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