I go to teach in the morning and my student brings two pieces to play for me. Each of them is one page long but the first one has chordal texture of eighth-notes while the other is polyphonic with sixteenth-notes. My student is struggling with playing correct notes of the polyphonic piece but the other one goes fine. I ask him: How much time did you spend on practicing it? And the student says: About the same time as the other piece. Then I ask him to look at both pages and count the approximate number of notes in each piece. It turns out the polyphonic piece has three times more notes on that page. Does that mean he should spend three times as much time practicing it as the other one? Ausra's Harmony Exercise: Diatonic Sequence in F Major (I-I42-IV6)
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Drs. Vidas Pinkevicius and Ausra Motuzaite-Pinkeviciene Organists of Vilnius University , creators of Secrets of Organ Playing. Don't have an organ at home? Download paper manuals and pedals, print them out, cut the white spaces, tape the sheets together and you'll be ready to practice anywhere where is a desk and floor. Make sure you have a higher chair. |