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Post by Steve Hopwood on Oct 3, 2006 21:31:49 GMT
I think I'll go for the squashing technique! (Though teacher insists on counting everything manically! - Actually she relented a bit today - at my suggestion I'm putting my Dip pieces to one side for a while and playing some other stuff instead - I never thought she would agree....) Hehe. Ever asked her to count the bit that doesn't add up? That might be fun.
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Post by petite joueuse on Oct 3, 2006 21:35:08 GMT
She threw a pink fit when she saw it! And when I pointed out the next bar (different, but also doesn't add up) she nearly exploded! I love her dearly....but she is a very precise woman, and bars which don't add up stress her beyond belief.
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Oct 3, 2006 21:38:25 GMT
She threw a pink fit when she saw it! And when I pointed out the next bar (different, but also doesn't add up) she nearly exploded! I love her dearly....but she is a very precise woman, and bars which don't add up stress her beyond belief. A very precise woman who is also a teacher? No wonder she threw a pink fit. ;D
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Post by petite joueuse on Oct 3, 2006 21:42:45 GMT
She is VERY different! Believe me!
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Post by Dulciana on Oct 4, 2006 9:16:05 GMT
I go for the squashing technique myself! Like you, I count things out up to a point, but once I've got the idea I eventually end up gritting my teeth and hoping for the best. There's nothing worse than an ornament sounding really forced - as if the performer has put the music aside for a moment and gone into maths and science mode.
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Post by petite joueuse on Oct 4, 2006 18:34:47 GMT
You would have loved me practising I got Rhythm - piano teacher manically shouting out numbers while her husband shouts out "Don't count it, just FEEL it"!!
Sometimes I enter tricky bits into Sibelius and then slow it down until I can really hear how it should sound rhythmically....but of course, Sibelius would not let me enter something that doesn't add up!!
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Oct 4, 2006 20:51:06 GMT
You would have loved me practising I got Rhythm - piano teacher manically shouting out numbers while her husband shouts out "Don't count it, just FEEL it"!! I am a confirmed counter when playing 'classical' music. Of late, I have completely changed the repertoire I teach to kids and use stuff written during the last 15 years or so - Cornick, Bonsor, Wedgewood et al. Counting this stuff can drive you nuts; 'feel' is much better unless something really needs 'working out'. Of course, this merely gives the kids an excuse to not do what they weren't doing before - counting. ;D
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Post by Trebor on Oct 4, 2006 21:05:39 GMT
Of course, this merely gives the kids an excuse to not do what they weren't doing before - counting. ;D Damned straight
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Post by anacrusis on Oct 4, 2006 22:20:31 GMT
*hands up, looking guilty* not a kid any more... but I don't count very well. Probably why I do it so obsessively when trying to learn something new. It never sounds musical 'til I know it well enough not to need to count any more, though. ;D
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Post by petite joueuse on Nov 20, 2006 22:27:59 GMT
WOW! Think I may have found the answer to my Scarlatti question! I was at the Cumbria Recorder Society playday on Saturday and went to a session on Baroque ornamentation run by Ann Bond (if you do an Amazon on her, you will find her book about harpsichords). After the session (which was mainly Bach) I mentioned my interest in Scarlatti....and she invited me to go and talk Scarlatti with her and play Scarlatti on her various harpsichords at her house (about 25 mins drive from where I live!). She even said she has a piano and a harpsichord side by side so I can easily compare the two! Can't wait! But I'll have to practise like mad first - she comes across as really knowing what she's on about when it comes to harpsichord!
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