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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:28 am
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:58 am
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:25 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:23 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:22 pm
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Wings Well, most of it is the usual. Watching vids of performances, attending concerts and masterclasses, reading books on composers, history, analysis, and pedagogy, singing... I'd like to take up dancing some time. There was this Baroque dance workshop I wanted to attend but didn't have time to...maybe next year. 3nodding
Everything above, and yeah, I exercise and meditate regularly to relax and manage performance anxiety. also, i picked up this habit of smiling before starting a piece that's technically challenging..that seems to relax me too (i know, odd). but i try not to do it for "somber" pieces for obvious reasons.
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:38 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 5:20 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 9:38 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:38 pm
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:01 pm
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Well at conservatories they teach you ear training, theory, piano, harmony, history, etc. Some of these are more helpful than others depending on your field. I know that piano doesn't help me as a bassoonist but it sure does help me when I'm trying to arrange things for bassoon quartet.
Ear training doesn't help me calm my nerves while playing a concerto but it helps me diagnose what position I'm playing in a chord when I'm playing with the orchestra.
Theory doesn't necessarily help me with how to play my scales and all their modes but it might help me memorize a piece I have to perform if that structure makes sense to me and I make connections with the music and why it's written the way it is.
I also find that listening to other genres expands your musical range. Listening to jazz will open your eyes to really really cool harmonies, time signatures, orchestration, etc. Hip-hop will give you insight to different rhythms, grooves, vocal play, etc.
Also on a physical standpoint, EXERCISE, and maintenance of your body strength and flexibility is so important. As musicians we are ATHLETES. We have to maintain our bodies to be fit to play our instruments for as long as until we're even 80! There is a lot of stress that goes into body position, practice habits, muscle development, etc. So many musicians get tendonitis (I am not excluded from that either) and have complications so learning your body and how to keep it healthy is key.
Hope that helps, I could talk about this for days. Years.
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:55 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:14 am
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I'm tending to view my playing to be a much more broad thing than just music. As self-important as it probably is, I want it to just be general art. To that end, I really want to immerse myself in all the differents things that artists all over the world put out there. Films, paintings, books, video games, clothing, I can be inspired by all of it.
Getting more to the "nuts and bolts", I absolutely find that more academic study of music (theory, history, etc.) totally enhances my playing. It just brings me out of the dark a little bit and makes me feel my place in time.
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:07 am
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Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:18 pm
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