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Dynamics For The Win
I figured out a great way to work on dynamics. I will play with a vocal of spoken words (today I was using Dylan Thomas reading A Child’s Christmas) at just below conversation volume in the background; as in conversation at normal volume and while you converse the reading in the background kinda fades away. Then I play softy enough to understand what is being read. I am amazed at how easily my volume crept up even though trying to play softly. It definitely takes practice to maintain and then intentionally control dynamics. In only a few hours I sharpened up to a very happy competence. It is amazing to me what my fingers learn when I play softly!!!
Great week to everyone this week.
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This sounds like an interesting style or technique! I have heard it, but never really even thought about it– but it’s pretty cool!
If I understand your post correctly—- I also find it difficult to maintain an even and consistent volume-level when I’m playing—- maybe especially when recording/video-ing a song.
I also seem to always find myself creeping “up” in volume; I don’t even notice it or pay any attention to it during recording…. (too focused on other things— like actually playing and singing)…. but then I can sometimes hear it clearly when playing the video/audio BACK.
And I don’t have the recording-equipment-knowledge to “level” that out thru some sort of digital-audio-workstation setup.
This is a great and useful thread you have started here, Jeff, and I hope that I “took it the right way” in that being consistent in playing at the same volume-level is important.
mark- (theoldcoach)
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For sure, the awareness is what I needed to calibrate. Then execution. Even better than an even volume is once that evenness is under finger, is punctuating your playing punching tonally aligned notes, or maybe notes in the octave scale is more accurate, and then working the volume to bring in transitions to other parallel places using notes that are pleasantly unexpected. Pleasantly unexpected, Phewwwweeee! That is another universe and we could probable have a 1k thread post about that. (hint, all notes fit within any scale if you know how to get to and from them. shhhhh.) I forgot to add, I use my computer and an old record player. Warning if you use record players of lower quality their speeds do not always produce tones at 440 hz., which is where we tune our guitars….mostly.
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