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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Juan Carlos Olite I hope my comments help, and I am glad you play Bach every day! It’s the best.
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Gloria could easily happen when spelling out form in words… but now you have your answer! Good work in this TWI!
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Roy James-Pike So glad you could observe this TWI. I must admit, I chuckled when reading your last sentence, "I came across the Goldberg Aria...That's a good place to start" - that could be a New…
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Juan Carlos Olite well done, you are sensitive to the harmonic changes in the vocal line. A few thoughts: (1) new tone colour on each tied syncopation,…
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Gloria great to hear the whole Sarabande, I have a question and a comment: 1) at 0:50, you trill from E to D-sharp: is that on your edition? I usually play F to D-sharp.…
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Andrea Buckland it’s always good to study the outline this way. Progressively adding chords helps us hear the texture and make choices about what to voice prominently and what to do with supporting…
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Kerstin yes I would do that.
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Andrew play it discretely with LH thumb 5 (low percentage of sound)
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Andrew thanks for this video, it appears you seem to have an octave span, perhaps a ninth, before it’s too stretchy and your hand will lock. Play the lowest three notes of the chord and then add the…
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Gloria pedal can be used if it is not heard to be used. I wouldn’t use UC unless it’s a really special moment and the sound retains its intensity. Too often UC means the sound loses resonance and…
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Andrew great question! Please, if you could, make a video on vertical view of your LH playing these chords arpeggiated and I can answer that. I need to see how you’re playing them and what your span…
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Kerstin this is the precisely the kind of practice that leads to solid horizontal voicing. Good work! Soprano (as you probably hear already) is a bit heavy at 0:21-25,…
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Gloria good work with sophisticated voicing proportions. I would suggest voicing the last chords (fa-mi-re-do soprano) with more sound on the soprano: the alto is in character but the soprano needs…
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Re: Week 2: Horizontal and Vertical Voicing
@Andrew Good work - and beautiful choice, I really like this transcription. I hear the alto line is often too loud when it moves closer to soprano (eg., listen closely to your first few notes:…
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Re: Week 1: Vertical Voicing
@Gloria good work with the percentages, let’s hear how you play it!
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- 7 days ago
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Re: Week 1: Vertical Voicing
@Juan Carlos Olite good to hear your vertical practice! I suggest a calmer alto sound, descend into the key slower and find a quieter nuance that allows soprano to sing without having to exaggerate…
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Re: Week 1: Vertical Voicing
@Gloria for the English suite, play A and B as written and when repeating play Les agréments de la même Sarabade.
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Re: Week 1: Vertical Voicing
@Andrew this is more a piece for next week! This week is all about vertical voicing of chords; the Busoni transcription you posted is great for horizontal voicing though!
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- 8 days ago
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Re: Week 1: Vertical Voicing
@Andrea Buckland yes this works. When voiced to its pinnacle the interpretation you’re going for is magic.
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- 10 days ago
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Re: Week 1: Vertical Voicing
@Kerstin So glad to hear this. D major toccata is a good place to work on chord voicing, you’ll see in second week how this works in such roulade-chord figurations,…
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Re: Week 1: Vertical Voicing
@Andrea Buckland yes to your work on the percentages game, this is exactly the kind of thinking you want during practice. To know what you sound like in your two versions will help me answer your…
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Re: Week 1: Vertical Voicing
@Claire Sure: I'd recommend the Prelude first - perfect voicing study. Fugue can be for the second week of this TWI!
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Re: Week 1: Vertical Voicing
@Hazel yes, go ahead with the Italian Concerto, that’s great.
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- 12 days ago
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Re: Week 1: Vertical Voicing
@Kerstin Great start with bass lines: this is going in the right direction!
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Re: Week 1: Vertical Voicing
@Jeff Wagner Good idea!
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