Happy Tax Day! Sorry. I'm loosening my strict one minute long piece starting today. This one is around four seconds longer. Wow, the single day off of blog posting was good for me, I needed the break.
This piece today is and example of holding notes down (almost as many as I can) to achieve a very legato effect and also somewhat of a damper pedal effect - without smearing everything else. There is no pedaling here at all. It's almost like a game of twister for the fingers. I also sometimes switch fingers while keys are depressed. Another thing that happens that's cool but subtle is any time you play notes while others are held you get some sympathetic resonating and overtones start humming.
As I'm writing this I can't help think how great it would be to have a video of me playing like this, as explaining what you're seeing is more effective than me trying to paint pictures with words. So, it won't happen for todays entry but I plan to implement this and should be able to imbed a video in my blog - we'll see.
This is a technique I use a lot and have developed my own personal way of doing it and really want to share this with you. I will get more into this in the future on this mblog which will (with video) be a mvblog! I guess.
This piece today is and example of holding notes down (almost as many as I can) to achieve a very legato effect and also somewhat of a damper pedal effect - without smearing everything else. There is no pedaling here at all. It's almost like a game of twister for the fingers. I also sometimes switch fingers while keys are depressed. Another thing that happens that's cool but subtle is any time you play notes while others are held you get some sympathetic resonating and overtones start humming.
As I'm writing this I can't help think how great it would be to have a video of me playing like this, as explaining what you're seeing is more effective than me trying to paint pictures with words. So, it won't happen for todays entry but I plan to implement this and should be able to imbed a video in my blog - we'll see.
This is a technique I use a lot and have developed my own personal way of doing it and really want to share this with you. I will get more into this in the future on this mblog which will (with video) be a mvblog! I guess.