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Scordatura

Scordatura

Jan 6, 2023 | Intermediate, More advanced, Music Concept, Sheet Music | 0 Comments

“Scordatura,” in Italian literally meaning “discord,” refers to retuning the standard tuning of a string instrument. 

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Pizzicato and Syncopation

Pizzicato and Syncopation

Sep 7, 2021 | Intermediate, Music Concept, Right-hand, Sheet Music | 0 Comments

This Invention in E major is in open position and features slurring, rhythmic syncopation, pizzicato, glissandi, ponticello, and p golpe (tapping on the soundboard).

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Rubato and Glissando

Rubato and Glissando

Jul 17, 2020 | Left-hand, More advanced, Music Concept, Sheet Music | 5 Comments

Prayer is an intermediate-level piece that features sections of flexible rhythm, meter, and tempo in a playing style called rubato, a piacere, or ad libitum

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Irregular Meter

Irregular Meter

Mar 28, 2020 | Intermediate, Music Concept, Sheet Music | 2 Comments

When compound- and simple-subdivided beats are combined together, the result is irregular meter. 

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Kenya

Kenya

Dec 27, 2019 | Intermediate, Music Concept, Sheet Music | 0 Comments

Kenya is a very accessible (open-position) hemiola study in the style of African folk music.

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Welsh Folk Song

Welsh Folk Song

Aug 18, 2019 | Intermediate, Left-hand, Music Concept, Sheet Music | 0 Comments

Suo-Gân is a traditional Welsh tune,  first appearing around 1800 with lyrics set by the Welsh folklorist Robert Bryan. 

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Hemiola

Hemiola

May 3, 2019 | Intermediate, Music Concept, Sheet Music | 0 Comments

A new rhythm arises when the accent pattern in  6/8 meter  shifts from two groups of three’s to three groups of two’s.  This is called hemiola. 

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Rhythm Study

Rhythm Study

Mar 27, 2019 | Intermediate, Music Concept, Sheet Music | 0 Comments

Kalimba is an easy rhythm study featuring 16-note patterns with off-beat stress. It was written to imitate the sound of the south African instrument by the same name

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Developing alternation with a

Developing alternation with a

Aug 21, 2018 | Beginner, Intermediate, Music Concept, Right-hand, Sheet Music | 1 Comment

Remembrance is a p,i,a,i,a,i arpeggio study. Before playing, make sure you’ve mastered free-stroke alternation on two strings. This requires two important techniques: the sympathetic and opposed finger motions.

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Developing the p,i,m,a,m,i arpeggio

Developing the p,i,m,a,m,i arpeggio

May 28, 2018 | Beginner, Music Concept, Right-hand, Sheet Music | 2 Comments

The p,i,m,a,m,i arpeggio works most efficiently when organized as two sympathetic motions: i,m,a followed by m-i, with an opposed a,m in between.

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