Re: How to develop feel
Reminds me of something that happened on Monday. My son plays trumpet in the HS band. It's concert band season now, and they're working on modern piece called "The Great Train Chase".....or something like that. IIRC, it's a story about a group of Confederate soldiers that steal a Union train during the Civil War. The song composition is basically a musical imagery of the event, with different instruments and parts representing the different events and action.
Anyway.....my son brings home a 2 page written historical account of the details and events as they transpired. His new music teacher gave everyone copies and told them to read it. On each copy, he highlighted the areas of the text where that child's particular instrument or section was playing in the song. He wanted the kids to develop a "feel" for the emotions and events during which they would be playing and their instruments would be representing. Needless to say, I'm EXTREMELY impressed by the new music teacher. None of the music teachers I had in HS would have attempted such techniques.
-Brian
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Play the SONG......not the DRUMS!!!
"I think that feeling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts." ~ John Bonham
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