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Practicing Saxophone
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Clearer Thinking For Better Performance. August 20, 2016. Listening to Your Sound Differently: An Experiment in Perception. July 3, 2016. There really is no such thing as truly hearing the “absolute reality” of your sound as you play. In part, that’s because your sound constantly changes as it is impacted by two fundamental things: 1. Environment 2. Perception Environment has to do with such things as the acoustical qualities of the room you’re playing in, […]. Filed Under: Practicing Music. June 12, 2016.
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Teaching And Learning Music: A Built-In Problem In Exhanging Information
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Clearer Thinking For Better Performance. August 20, 2016. Teaching And Learning Music: A Built-In Problem In Exhanging Information. April 12, 2015. The longer I teach. The Alexander Technique to musicians, the more frequently one particular issue arises: the lack of clarity between cause and effect where practice and technique are concerned. Below is a brilliant description of this potential obstacle to progress:. Denis Wick, Retired Principle Trombonist, London Symphony Orchestra. So maybe you try to de...
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Alexander Technique and Music
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Clearer Thinking For Better Performance. August 20, 2016. Skill and Coordination (They’re Not Necessarily the Same Thing). May 22, 2016. One of the aims of the Alexander Technique is to improve coordination. And I would say more specifically for musicians, the aim of the Technique is to improve the quality of overall coordination that you use to implement your music making skills. A misapprehension that many musicians have is that skill and coordination are one and […]. April 3, 2016. March 13, 2016.
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My E-Books
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Clearer Thinking For Better Performance. August 20, 2016. 8211; Jacques Lesure,. Guitarist/ Educator/Recording Artist www.jacqueslesure.com. 8220;I just bought two of Bill Plake’s pdf books:. Melodic Minor Scale Jazz Studies. Diminished Scale Diatonic Triad Pairs. There are some really great jazz improvisation ideas and concepts here! Going to give me lots of things to practice in the next few weeks”. 8211; Charles McNeal,. And find it easier and easier to understand the musicality of these phrases, whic...
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Practicing Improvisation
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Clearer Thinking For Better Performance. August 20, 2016. Deepening Improvisation: Do This Every Time You Learn a New Melodic Pattern. July 24, 2016. Filed Under: Practicing Improvisation. Tagged With: Improving Musical Performance. Healthy and Efficient Practice: Aim for Wanting This at the End of Each Session. June 12, 2016. Filed Under: Healthy Practice Habits. Tagged With: Improving Musical Performance. Is Improvisation Really Just “Spontaneous Composition”? May 1, 2016. Yes (to answer the question i...
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Practicing Music
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Clearer Thinking For Better Performance. August 20, 2016. Listening to Your Sound Differently: An Experiment in Perception. July 3, 2016. There really is no such thing as truly hearing the “absolute reality” of your sound as you play. In part, that’s because your sound constantly changes as it is impacted by two fundamental things: 1. Environment 2. Perception Environment has to do with such things as the acoustical qualities of the room you’re playing in, […]. Filed Under: Practicing Music. June 12, 2016.
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Practicing Saxophone
http://billplakemusic.org/category/practicing-saxophone
Clearer Thinking For Better Performance. August 20, 2016. Listening to Your Sound Differently: An Experiment in Perception. July 3, 2016. There really is no such thing as truly hearing the “absolute reality” of your sound as you play. In part, that’s because your sound constantly changes as it is impacted by two fundamental things: 1. Environment 2. Perception Environment has to do with such things as the acoustical qualities of the room you’re playing in, […]. Filed Under: Practicing Music. June 12, 2016.
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Alexander Technique
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Clearer Thinking For Better Performance. August 20, 2016. Teaching And Learning Music: A Built-In Problem In Exhanging Information. April 12, 2015. Filed Under: Alexander Technique and Music. Tagged With: Alexander Technique. Optimizing Practice: Habit Versus Choice. March 29, 2015. Filed Under: Alexander Technique and Music. Tagged With: Alexander Technique. Practicing Music: There Are No Foolproof Exercises. March 1, 2015. Musicians love to share advice in an attempt to help other musicians. (IR...
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Jazz Etudes
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Clearer Thinking For Better Performance. August 20, 2016. I’d appreciate any feedback you have about the etudes. Also, feel free to contact me with a particular request. I’ve been playing, studying and teaching improvisation for over thirty five years, and have lots of ideas and exercises. I’ll be adding new etudes fairly regularly, so check back if you want more. If you like these etudes, please consider taking a look at some of my downloadable pdf jazz etude books. Etude 2- Triad Patterns Over ii-V-I.
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Change This Habit In Your Daily Practice To Become A Better Improviser
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Clearer Thinking For Better Performance. August 20, 2016. Change This Habit In Your Daily Practice To Become A Better Improviser. May 10, 2015. Ah…good ol’ 4/4 time. It is so prevalent in western music that it is often referred to as “common time”. Most of the compositions in the standard jazz repertoire are composed in this ubiquitous time signature. Yet many of the jazz musicians that I know personally (as well as the vast majority of students who come to me for lessons. In a way, it makes sense for yo...
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