Really great insight. Thank you! I would add also to be mindful of the use of common motives inside of phrases. The focus many times is on reutilizing, repeating and varying phrases… to the extent that you can have a theme repeating a dozen times in a piece and the listener still getting confused, as it is comprised of 16 bars of wandering lines. This is mainly true in slow music, where 8 bars of a tune can seem impossible to recall a few measures later on the piece. On that, the famous Adagietto from Mahler’s 5th teaches us an important lesson about long slow lines that make sense when they return, because of that characteristic appoggiatura.
I do see what you mean here. It is always important to develop your phrases, but the listener is always the first priority, and repetition is often stronger than variation in that regards. Thank you for the insight!
This video is very good, there are some great tips here. If I make one observation, you're moving your head a lot and the microphone picks up the difference in distance/angle of your mouth to it. Try either sitting more still if possible, or get a microphone that doesn't pick up this movement as much. You might also be able to do some mixing to improve on the sound. I hope you'll keep making video's like these, I'm sure they're helpful for many musicians. Thanks for uploading!
Thank you for the mic tips! I'll definingly try to stop moving around so much when recording lol. (And over the last few weeks I've gotten better at mixing it and finding the right settings) Thanks!
Really great insight. Thank you! I would add also to be mindful of the use of common motives inside of phrases. The focus many times is on reutilizing, repeating and varying phrases… to the extent that you can have a theme repeating a dozen times in a piece and the listener still getting confused, as it is comprised of 16 bars of wandering lines. This is mainly true in slow music, where 8 bars of a tune can seem impossible to recall a few measures later on the piece. On that, the famous Adagietto from Mahler’s 5th teaches us an important lesson about long slow lines that make sense when they return, because of that characteristic appoggiatura.
I do see what you mean here. It is always important to develop your phrases, but the listener is always the first priority, and repetition is often stronger than variation in that regards. Thank you for the insight!
Absolutely brilliant
Absolutely extraordinary as always sir xylophone ☕️
Thank you good sir ☕️
This video is very good, there are some great tips here.
If I make one observation, you're moving your head a lot and the microphone picks up the difference in distance/angle of your mouth to it. Try either sitting more still if possible, or get a microphone that doesn't pick up this movement as much. You might also be able to do some mixing to improve on the sound.
I hope you'll keep making video's like these, I'm sure they're helpful for many musicians. Thanks for uploading!
Thank you for the mic tips! I'll definingly try to stop moving around so much when recording lol. (And over the last few weeks I've gotten better at mixing it and finding the right settings) Thanks!
Damn this video is pretty good
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I figured out the problem since then