I remember when my piano teacher first made me start practicing scales with Hanon, I was in the fifth grade. I hated it instantly, but now I realize how valuable the exercises are. Bravo! #13 all-piano-scales(Saturday, 26 May 2012 12:09) ...
Example 1: major family four-notes-per-string exercise [C Major, all positions on the fretboard] Let’s get to grips with this scale using another of Holdsworth’s radical approaches. Rather than running scales in position, he preferred a fluid ‘saxophone’ sound and range. To achieve this...
It turns out I had things backwards. As I wrote last year, the NonesuchA Renaissance Christmaswas are-recording of an earlier performance from before the Camerata had signed to a major label. And it turns out thatA Medieval Christmaswas originally released in 1975, meaning that it precedesSing...
Here’s the plan I often suggest to my students: devote 10% of the practice time to technique (Hanon, Czerny), 10% to keyboard harmony (scales, arpeggios), 10% to sight-reading, 60% to literature, and 10% to fun (playing by ear, playing old stuff, poking around for new stuff). ...
A good first impression of the major differences between the SCs generated in ANDi and conventional PCF can be obtained from Fig.6.2, which illustrates the SC development in the spectral and temporal domain in our two example fibers from Fig.6.1under realistic pumping conditions. In the convention...
Followed by D#-B-G ("Recession, depression"). When you relate them to scales and indicate them as Roman numbers too, the pattern of the sequence becomes clear: - The scale is always Lydian. - 1), 2) and 3) are transpositions, going up with a major third. You may also notice that...
A real musician’s musician, alto saxophonist Art Pepper came to prominence during the 1950s as one of the major soloists of the West Coast and cool jazz movements. His playing, however, changed dramatically later in his career, as he took on the influence of new stylistic developments in ...
8' than it is to try to memorize all of the individual notes for all of the 12 possible major scales. Eventually, when you think of a particular major scale, your brain will just 'know' the scale and you will visualize it when you look at a keyboard or fret board, but in the ...
invention 1 and fugue 1 from Well Tempered Clavier I are very similar motivically, and share the same tonality of C major. but the latter is in 4 voices, as opposed to 2, and the fingering is much more complex (although the generally accepted tempo is slower). however, I find it eas...