Thursday, September 3, 2015

Voice those chords!

When playing anything with multiple voices in a chordal fashion, voicing is almost always an issue. A helpful image I like to give my students is to visualize holding and supporting a basketball with two hands out in front of you.  3-4-5 have more grip or support of the ball on the bottom and the thumbs which are higher up on the ball should be more relaxed and floating.

Picture above with a more relaxed expression :0).  This visualization will help achieve the right angle of the hands on the keyboard directing sound towards the outer voices for greater effect.

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