2011年10月26日星期三

Numbers on their own make this sound very confusing,

Numbers on their own make this sound very confusing, but in reality, it is quite easy to show and follow (without even mentioning numbers).So, dear friends, as you play, please move. (Can we agree that notation is not music, but only a representation of it?)A Air Max France Pas Chercolleague of mine once stated, "We teach counting because that's what musicians do." Perhaps, but that's not what GOOD musicians do (including my colleague), it's not the ONLY thing they do, and it's certainly not the MOST IMPORTANT thing they do. As up-beat inflections go, beat 4 is more important than beat 2 because it must prepare us for the greater significance of beat 1. When we think of teaching rhythm, we immediately think of counting.Nike Shox Rivalry Femme Let yourself follow the meter of the music (whether duple, triple, or some combination thereof).One exercise I highly recommend is to find the down-beats when you play. Now, don't get me wrong, counting is a useful strategy, but it has little to do with rhythm. The most important thing they do is to move.Consider that when a conductor beats a metric pattern, they are not simply tracing out a shape in the air. It involves more weight and motion, which will make you more accurate. As I mentioned in a previous article, music is sound in motion. Counting is simply a numerical organization that only has meaning when used with notation. Instead of tapping with your toe, tap with your heel. There are also different kinds of down-beats and up-beats.For example, in common time, beats 1 and 3 are both down-beats, but beat 1 is obviously more important than beat 3. (It also tends to be quieter, all shoes being equal.) As I will discuss in a future article, this is an excellent way to check for basic rhythmic understanding.To be an effective musician, it is not enough to watch a beat. It's certainly not enough to count beats. To have any meaning, they must indicate inflection: a down-beat is different from an up-beat. Feel the weight of the down-beat and the lightness of the up-beat. I happen to prefer this definition of music over Cage's "music is organized sound" because I believe it is much more to the point of not only what makes music unique acoustically, but also what makes it so special aesthetically.It's also a very practical definition, because motion is what we study when we learn how to play accurately and with musical meaning.Here's where I have to criticize the traditional practices in band pedagogy. You must move to it, or you will never be a part of it.John Skelton is a professional oboist with a Masters in Performance from Temple University. Rhythm Chaussures Reebok Femmeis motion. He currently teaches beginning instrumental music in the Mahopac school district in NY..




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