Post by xindi on Jun 21, 2012 20:32:54 GMT
What's your favourite decoration at the moment?
I'm not thinking about wallpaper for the lounge
Think grace notes; bending notes, slides, trills etc. Doesn't matter which instrument.
In chinese music notation, there seems to be a fair degree of overlap. Like for instance ' ----' above a note, usually entails the notes are joined together, either by glissando flow techniques (guzheng) ; slurring techniques (flute), or tremolo or sliding techniques (other stringed instruments).
Grace notes, are indicated by a small superscript note, which is played rapidly. I always wonder whether I'm wrong to play it as a rhythmic tool, or whether I should accentuate it, using as a melodic tool for a phrase instead. What do other people do?
Familiar with some Irish trad music - i.e. cuts, rolls, cranning etc, I long since gave up trying any of these although the principles are very similar to decorations in chinese music. I think I've been overdoing my trills lately; as well as throat vibrato, usually where there is no marking on the music (guess I do it because it feels good - that's how free flow).
My current fav decoration, recently is that I've started to 'blip' notes on the dizi, using the tongue to seal off the airflow. I don't know the technical term for this. Is blipping a technical term? I was messing around with a guanzi, and guessed that this is the technique used for staccato playing in a clarinet (another reed instrument), so there's no reason why it shouldn't apply to a guanzi too, right? Last month I was infatuated with overblowing trills into the fourth octave (yeah - you heard - fourth!) and descending down to the bottom octave. This month I realised I didn't know what I was doing lol
It reminded me of 1 of the 4 dizi flute lessons which I had, in which I asked my teacher why he played a phrase a certain way. He said something to the effect of: "do you always want sheet music to be boring?"
I'm not thinking about wallpaper for the lounge
Think grace notes; bending notes, slides, trills etc. Doesn't matter which instrument.
In chinese music notation, there seems to be a fair degree of overlap. Like for instance ' ----' above a note, usually entails the notes are joined together, either by glissando flow techniques (guzheng) ; slurring techniques (flute), or tremolo or sliding techniques (other stringed instruments).
Grace notes, are indicated by a small superscript note, which is played rapidly. I always wonder whether I'm wrong to play it as a rhythmic tool, or whether I should accentuate it, using as a melodic tool for a phrase instead. What do other people do?
Familiar with some Irish trad music - i.e. cuts, rolls, cranning etc, I long since gave up trying any of these although the principles are very similar to decorations in chinese music. I think I've been overdoing my trills lately; as well as throat vibrato, usually where there is no marking on the music (guess I do it because it feels good - that's how free flow).
My current fav decoration, recently is that I've started to 'blip' notes on the dizi, using the tongue to seal off the airflow. I don't know the technical term for this. Is blipping a technical term? I was messing around with a guanzi, and guessed that this is the technique used for staccato playing in a clarinet (another reed instrument), so there's no reason why it shouldn't apply to a guanzi too, right? Last month I was infatuated with overblowing trills into the fourth octave (yeah - you heard - fourth!) and descending down to the bottom octave. This month I realised I didn't know what I was doing lol
It reminded me of 1 of the 4 dizi flute lessons which I had, in which I asked my teacher why he played a phrase a certain way. He said something to the effect of: "do you always want sheet music to be boring?"
