Experiment with Your Tone
Sometimes I have bad tone days! Don’t you? Even when I am in good shape from a steady diet of practice, rehearsals, and performances, I can still have a bad tone day. So what can we do to pull out of the doldrums and make it a good tone day? I remember during my...
Trill Fingers
Have you ever just worked on your trills? There’s a really good exercise in Taffanel and Gaubert’s 17 Grande Exercises at the very end of the book that you can use to work on your trills and to learn your trills. But today I just want to talk about the fingers...
You Can’t Have a Good High Register Without Having a Really Good Low Register
You need to be thinking about your low register as the foundation for everything that comes above it. If your low register is thin and not filled out and rich, then your upper register is going to suffer. There are some things that you can do to work on your low...
Getting Spin on Your Third Octave Notes
How many of you feel like your third octave just does not have the same kind of resonance and excitement that perhaps your second and your first octave do? Learning how to “spin” your notes is one way to add that excitement to your high notes. We all need to work...Warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$provider_name in /home3/mcb4gat/public_html/wp-content/themes/Divi/includes/builder/functions.php on line 13443
