Group 2
Welcome to the NEW TWO WEEK INTENSIVE on tonebase!
Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
Post your progress with videos and written commentary on how things are going for you!
- Course Period: June 26 - July 10th
- Class Size: ALL are welcome!
- Optional check-In via Zoom: July 2nd at 11am PT
- ZOOM MEETING LINK:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5557629304?pwd=F1jnbTtCaEZxci7lDSSss66kvLtCVT.1
Assignment #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQpw6fZBOlE
- Pick a short piece (Mazurka, Nocturne, Prelude) or excerpt of a longer piece (Ballade, Polonaise, Scherzo, Sonata, Concerto). Focus on lyrical/slow sections.
- Learn bass carefully, labelling all chords and cadences.
- SING melodic line. Practice singing until your voice can identify the melody instantly.
- Submit a video: playing the Bass while singing the Soprano.
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Assignment #2
https://youtu.be/ri2UD1z8sKE?si=w36XWzqb_rao3RAu
-Label all breathing points with an apostrophe between phrase markings. Practice deep breaths between significant points or use a regular breath for phrase changes.
-Sing Bass notes of all chords while playing Soprano melody.
-Submit a video: playing hands together (performance).
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Hi all,
Singing is definitely harder than playing. Sorry for my lousy voice.
I have submitted the video of me playing and singing Scherzo no. 2 2nd theme.
https://youtu.be/chh_3yqeZwA?si=aMdYPFqCfQRLzvr9
Thanks Mr. Dunn for arranging this TWI.
Best Regards,
Fingers
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Great work singing! Changing registers to accommodate your tessitura is helpful. I think your intonation and sense of vibrato can be more attuned to bass lines. Listen carefully to your voice + LH bass note (finger 5): this will help to ground you in the harmony and colour, to shape the phrases and help your ear sense of dynamics. Great start - this is exactly the process that we need to develop bel canto.
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Dear Jarred, thanks very much indeed for proposing this exercise. I am trying to learn harmonic analysis by reading on the subject so please bear with me. I will only be working on the first 34 bars of Chopin's Mazurka op 67 no 4. This what I have come up with re analysis (why is it so hard?). I will upload me singing awfully to the accompaniment of the left hand asap. Cheers. Sedef
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Sedef CANKOCAK how’s the recording going? I perused your harmonic analysis and it looks mostly good - m18 is a V42 (dominant seventh in third inversion) and m30 / m35 is a V64 (tonic chord in second inversion).
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Zoom Check-in: Tuesday July 2nd at 11am PT. Bring any questions you have so far or important lessons/skills you're learning. Hope to see you there! Keep singing..
