Practice Secrets

What makes 4/4 different from 3/4?

03 October 2007 Last Updated on 10 April 2008 Simon Cole

Your playing along and the ensemble feels like it's tripping over itself in it's rush to go faster, the music doesn't feel settled the rhythms are more or less

correct but it feels wrong.  Well this is whats wrong, it's easy to fix and it will make your rhythm make more sense, your technique more even and solid and  fixed it will make for better and more enlightened music making with a better sense of phrase structure.....

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Playing in Tune

05 August 2007 Last Updated on 07 July 2008 Simon Cole

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Practice one thing at a time.

06 June 2007 Simon Cole
You will often hear me say this at lessons. Another way to think of this is

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Phrasing.

06 June 2007 Simon Cole

Most music and all tonal music follows the pattern embodied by the harmonic progression 1-5-1.

That is to say it moves from a point of repose to tension and then back again.

The performer must highlight or make evident these patterns and thusly communicate the architecture of the piece to the listener.


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Music Festival Preparation

11 October 2006 Last Updated on 10 February 2010 Simon Cole
  What to do if you want it to go well.

 

These are my recommendations based on 30+ years of performing and teaching many successful students.


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