[rodgersorgan] Re: Challenging keys
- From: Jeffrey & Kelly Crum <jtkac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 21:04:58 -0600
Hi Noel,
This methods works! It is functional, provides reinforcement, and
confidence.
For several years, I have encouraged college students to take one small ide=
a
(motive, progression, etc.) and make it their own forever by playing it in
every key. It builds coordination between the analytic memory, ear, and
hands (and feet). Then the idea can become part of improvisation upon
demand. =20
I wish someone would have made me do it when I was a child. My children ar=
e
doing it. They think it is just a game--and it is! Practicing is
"playing", isn't it?
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Jeffrey T. Crum, PhD, NCTM
Pensacola, Florida, USA
Rodgers Custom IV =B3Crowne=B2, 990, C-445
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on 11/4/02 9:56 PM, Noel Heinze at noel.heinze@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> Make it a lesson in ear training and improvising, and pass it along to yo=
ur
> students:
> Take a piece you know by heart, for piano or organ...simple or complex,
> maybe a hymn, or a Bach prelude or fugue, or a Broadway show tune,
> whatever...play it in every key...ALL OF THEM...force yourself to figure =
out
> the chords, modulations, etc. Do it at least once a week. When you lear=
n a
> new piece, or compose your own, get it into your fingers, memorize it, th=
en
> play it in all keys...you will learn your way around the keyboard and los=
e
> any fear of any key.
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> Noel Heinze, Asheville, NC
> St. Giles' Chapel, Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community
> Rodgers 835 & PR300S
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