Contextualize Your Music
The more context you can understand, the better.
arrange • compose • conduct
The more context you can understand, the better.
When I’m teaching “off the shelf” arrangements, these are the three things I’m most likely to, um, adjust.
V-I isn’t the only option.
Some of the most harmonically sophisticated songs share this feature.
Surfers don’t create the waves.
There’s a lot of approximated information in notation.
You’ve gotta set aside time for things that won’t help today.
In rehearsal, I’m asking this question when confronting close dissonances in adjacent parts.
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I’m a talk-about-the-physics kind of a guy.