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Piano: Rhythmic Precision Resource Pack Preview
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Once you can pretty reliably play “the right notes”, what sets a good musician apart from a great one? Without a doubt, one crucial skill is rhythmic precision. A sloppy or unreliable sense of the beat will quickly distinguish an amateur from a pro. https://www.musical-u.com/learn/rhythmic-precision-resource-pack-preview/
In this month’s Instrument Packs our Resident Pros tackled this topic of rhythmic precision, and specifically from a musicality angle. So not so much “how do you get your fingers to do what you intend, at precisely the right time?” but more “how do you develop your inner sense of the beat and ability to bring your own expressiveness to your rhythmic playing?”
Let’s take a peek.
https://www.musical-u.com/learn/rhythmic-precision-resource-pack-preview/
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Guitar: Rhythmic Precision Resource Pack Preview
New musicality video:
Once you can pretty reliably play “the right notes”, what sets a good musician apart from a great one? Without a doubt, one crucial skill is rhythmic precision. A sloppy or unreliable sense of the beat will quickly distinguish an amateur from a pro. https://www.musical-u.com/learn/rhythmic-precision-resource-pack-preview/
In this month’s Instrument Packs our Resident Pros tackled this topic of rhythmic precision, and specifically from a musicality angle. So not so much “how do you get your fingers to do what you intend, at precisely the right time?” but more “how do you develop your inner sense of the beat and ability to bring your own expressiveness to your rhythmic playing?”
Let’s take a peek.
https://www.musical-u.com/learn/rhythmic-precision-resource-pack-preview/
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Bass: Rhythmic Precision Resource Pack Preview
New musicality video:
Once you can pretty reliably play “the right notes”, what sets a good musician apart from a great one? Without a doubt, one crucial skill is rhythmic precision. A sloppy or unreliable sense of the beat will quickly distinguish an amateur from a pro. https://www.musical-u.com/learn/rhythmic-precision-resource-pack-preview/
In this month’s Instrument Packs our Resident Pros tackled this topic of rhythmic precision, and specifically from a musicality angle. So not so much “how do you get your fingers to do what you intend, at precisely the right time?” but more “how do you develop your inner sense of the beat and ability to bring your own expressiveness to your rhythmic playing?”
Let’s take a peek.
https://www.musical-u.com/learn/rhythmic-precision-resource-pack-preview/
Learn more about Musical U Resident Pro Steve Lawson:
Twitter: @solobasssteve
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Rhythmic Precision: Resource Pack Preview
Once you can pretty reliably play “the right notes”, what sets a good musician apart from a great one? Without a doubt, one crucial skill is rhythmic precision. A sloppy or unreliable sense of the beat will quickly distinguish an amateur from a pro.
In this month’s Instrument Packs our Resident Pros tackled this topic of rhythmic precision, and specifically from a musicality angle. So not so much “how do you get your fingers to do what you intend, at precisely the right time?” but more “how do you develop your inner sense of the beat and ability to bring your own expressiveness to your rhythmic playing?”
Let’s take a peek.
Bass
True to form, our bass Pro Steve Lawson took what could have been a very formulaic topic – how bassists get good at rhythm – and stripped it down to what really matters, musically.
Including:
- Why rhythmic “precision” is really more about rhythmic “control”
- How listeners’ expectations about rhythmic timing have changed over the years
- A powerful exercise that both trains your “inner metronome” and gives you the space needed to make your rhythms musically expressive
- A long backing track MP3 with a selection of licks you can use to train this skill
In this Resource Pack Steve makes clear why having good rhythm on bass is about more than playing like a robot, and how you can develop a truly musical ear for rhythm.
Guitar
In this month’s tutorial our guitar Pro Dylan Welsh tackled the topic of rhythmic precision by going back to basics and explaining how the 16th-note grid can be your skeleton for precise and flexible rhythmic playing on guitar.
Including:
- How to count quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes
- A slow scale-based exercise to push your rhythm skills to the limit
- Adapting these ideas to improvising with interesting rhythms
- MP3 practice tracks you can use to practice the exercise and improvising
Adding rhythmic interest is often a challenge when improvising, but Dylan’s approach here will equip you with a solid sense of the beat and a creative framework for coming up with your own original rhythmic ideas.
Piano
Sara Campbell, our piano Pro, approached rhythmic precision from the question of “what trips piano players up, when it comes to rhythm?” and she answers it with practical tips, exercises, and tech resources to help you improve
Including:
- The most common rhythmic pitfalls for pianists
- Tips for keeping goodrhythm when playing in a group
- Useful left-hand patterns that can help you keep the beat
- Recommended apps that can help you gain rhythmic precision.
- MP3 tracks for practicing left-hand patterns as well as your ability to “count through the rests”
The exercises and ideas Sara shares can be applied no matter what music you’re working on, and provide a variety of great ways to work on your rhythmic precision on an ongoing basis as you learn piano.
Coming up next month…
We said that rhythmic precision is one thing that can set an amateur apart from a Pro. Another is use of dynamics. Aside from the very broad “this section is loud, that section is quiet”, how can you use volume to shape your phrases and add expressiveness to your playing? That’s the question our Resident Pros will be tackling in the Instrument Packs next month!
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Finding Your Note on The Musicality Podcast!
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We’re going to give you a simple yet very effective exercise to get you started and lay down the foundation for learning to pitch and sing in tune. http://musicalitypodcast.com/13
Today we’re going to talk about finding “your note”. This is an exercise which George Bevan from the Music@Monkton blog developed, to help people who think they can’t sing to take their first steps to becoming a capable and confident singer. We talked about it in our recent interview here on the podcast.
If you’ve ever worried that you can’t sing at all, or you have a friend who’s convinced they’re tone deaf, the exercise I’m going to explain will be really useful for you.
I first spoke to George a few years back when we were developing SingTrue, our interactive app to help you learn to sing. I was so impressed by his approach we implemented his idea of “Finding Your Note” as one of the first exercises inside the app – and since then almost half a million people have used it to find their note and take their first step to singing.
It is a simple exercise – but it’s powerful.
http://musicalitypodcast.com/13
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Why You’re Not Making Progress On Your Instrument… and How To Fix It
New musicality video:
As a musician, you desperately want to improve on your instrument. In this video, we’re going to propose a better, different way to practice that will produce more measurable results and prevent you from losing so much progress. https://www.musical-u.com/learn/why-youre-not-making-progress-instrument-fix-it/
It’s so frustrating. As a musician, you desperately want to make progress on your instrument. You put in hours in the practice room, working your fingers (or lips) until they’re raw. You feel like Miles Teller in Whiplash, playing until blood drips from your bloodied hands.
And by the end of practice, you feel like you’ve made progress. You’re moving more quickly over your runs, scales, and arpeggios. Your movements are fluid, you don’t stumble, and you feel like you could play the part in your sleep.
But then something happens…
You come to the practice room the next day, and it’s as if you didn’t practice at all. Your fingers are sluggish. You stumble and stagger over lines you nailed the previously day. It’s almost as if you didn’t practice. As if your brain has forgotten everything you learned.
It drives you nuts. Makes you want to quit. Makes you want to set your instrument on fire, Jimi Hendrix style. Is there something wrong with you? Are you not as good as other musicians? Is this struggle normal?
We’ve got some really good news. The struggle is real. Every musician encounters it. Every musician finds themselves losing the progress they made in the practice room. The problem isn’t you…
So what is the problem? It’s the way you (and most musicians) practice. Which means, of course, that you can solve the problem by changing the way you practice. There is a solution, and it’s not particularly complicated.
In this post, we’re going to propose a better, different way to practice that will produce more measurable results and prevent you from losing so much progress.
Additionally, we’ll give you a few other suggestions to optimize your practice time for maximum forward momentum.
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Why You’re Not Making Progress On Your Instrument… and How To Fix It