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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Mark Cooper I am fascinated by the mathematics that underlie music and discovering connections between musical constructs is right up my street! Thanks for mentioning the link between USTs and PTs.…
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Mark Cooper Good point about the similarities between the triad pairs (TPs) and the upper structure triads (USTs). I am glad you made this observation because I didn’t pick up on your comments about…
- Ken_Radford
- 9 days ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Mark Cooper Sounds great Mark and I like the way you use the guide (chord) tones to create interesting motifs.
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- 9 days ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Mark Cooper Thanks for your comments Mark. I will say more about triad pairs soon. Learning fugue improv is a hard job that someone has to do. If it was good enough for JSB...
- Ken_Radford
- 10 days ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
And here we are with month 3 of the 12 month Major II-V-I-VI and minor ii-v-i challenge travelling anticlockwise round the circle of fifths. This time round I introduce some triad pairs and as always,…
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- 10 days ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Larry K I have my stereo pair a few inches behind my ears and it works well in my room. It’s a case of trial and error with mic placement, so you’ll need to try some new positions and see if it…
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- 3 wk ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Larry K Room modes play a part in determining ideal mic placement. How close are the mics to a wall/corner of the room? Maybe try moving the piano and or mics away from the wall/corner and see if it…
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- 3 wk ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Peter William I will not be at that livestream so won’t be able to ask.
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- 3 wk ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Michelle R Thanks for the information Michelle. I am going to speak to my teacher about improvising fugue at my lesson tomorrow and see what his thoughts are.…
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- 3 wk ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Peter William “…advanced players like yourself…” 😂 Thank you for the compliment Peter, but that is not what I would say about my level. Maybe when I am improvising fugue in 2032… When it comes to…
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- 3 wk ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Peter William I agree that we should avoid injuries at all costs. When I was preparing for my 1st Dan kickboxing black belt many years ago I sustained a sacroiliac injury by doing multiple triple…
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- 3 wk ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
After looking through some of the partimenti.org web pages that Maria kindly posted and watching the tonebase interview with John Mortensen I decided that I have to learn how to improvise fugue.…
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- 3 wk ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Maria Thanks for the two links Maria. I am going to learn these rules and see if I can apply them to my jazz improv. Not sure how well classical and jazz will fit together…
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- 4 wk ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Maria I too am keen to learn about all forms of improvisation. I suspect that there are areas of crossover between classical and jazz improv. Do you have any examples or exercises to share?
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- 4 wk ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Mark Cooper Hi Mark, A rose by any other name… I may have mentioned that I like to keep things simple and there is a rather interesting pattern that appears with the JMM scales as we go round the…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
Here are my thoughts on learning how to create motifs with “improvising by numbers”. Comments, questions, and corrections welcomed. When I say that we have to know our scales,…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Mark Cooper Another great example of how to improvise over the minor ii-v-i progression Mark. I have been thinking about why so few pianists get excited about improvising and I have a theory based…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
Anyone like to improvise?
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
OK, there is a lot to talk about here, and it will take several days to cover what LVB does brilliantly in this piece, and in every other piece he composed.…
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Peter William I posted a partial answer to your Beethoven question yesterday and it is “pending review”. Hope it makes it through the review process. While not really related to improvisation,…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Peter William Is this the one? Dustin may correct me but the C# leading tone tells me that it is in D minor not F Major.
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Larry K I used to run Logic on my MacBook Air but I ran out of storage and had to use an external SSD drive. Not the end of the world but I much prefer to have all the storage I need inside the…
- Ken_Radford
- 1 mth ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Larry K I use Logic Pro on my MacBook Pro when I want a high-quality recording of my Steinway & Sons Model B. For my posts to YT I use QuickTime Player on my MacBook Air with my iPhone mic and…
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Larry K My parents noticed me turning my head in a strange way when trying to hear people talk when I was around 3 years old. They had me tested and the verdict was nerve damage caused by a virus.…
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Larry K Larry, as a monophonic (1/2 deaf) musician, I politely ask you to explain what stereo sounds like. I read somewhere that the piano sounds best at the player’s ears,…
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- 1 mth ago
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