Merry Christmas to all of you, folks!
Enjoy the time with your friends and family – and don’t practice too much!
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From the monthly archives:
December 2008
In the recent posts we used our vibrato to emphasize crescendo and decrescendo without limiting to bowing speed and bow pressure.
Today we’ll see how we can apply vibrato differently.
Very often we come across longer notes that can be seen as some sort of rest. Perhaps they are even written with a decrescendo. But nevertheless they [...]
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As I already mentioned here our vibrato must never be a matter of mere coincidence. We always have to apply it to emphasize our musical figuration, our crescendo and diminuendo, our musical intentions.
What do I mean by “musical figuration”?
Musical figuration related to our vibrato means that we look for notes that are more important than [...]
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If you run a blog with a considerable number of posts it’s always an adventure to upgrade anything.
I just did it. My hands are still shaking but things seem to work flawlessly, despite the huge step to version 2.7
So if you discover any weird things that haven’t been there before please inform me. I’ll have [...]
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When we apply vibrato on an instrument like the violin or viola we must be aware that this vibrato always has to be intentional. It is never a matter of mere coincidence or even boredom. We use vibrato to manipulate our sound as intended.
It’s rather difficult to vibrate faster notes, often it’s impossible for technical [...]
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