|
 [4490]Improving tone quality, etc (281 reads) |
2005-05-12 11:00:08 |
| |
|
Lindsay
Joined:
2005-5-12
From:
Posts:
14
|
I have just competed my freshman year as a music education major with a main instrument of percussion at Montclair State University. Now that I am home, I have all the time in the world to practice, and would really like to focus on my first love: marimba.
I realized towards the end of the semester that I have been so focused the entire year (really the last couple years) on *what* I play that I haven't been paying enough attention to *how* I play. So now I would like to rectify that. It seems to me that the really good marimba players I have encountered get such a warm, beautiful sound out of the marimba, and I, well, don't. My technique is fundamentally sound, and I know where on the keys to play, etc. I just feel like I don't have a good quality of sound.
Any tips on how to improve that?
Any advice, also, on how to improve my playing in general? I purchased Gordon Stout's "Ideokinetics" awhile back, and am going be working from that. I'm also going to reacquaint myself with Stevens' "Method of Movement", but beyond that I don't have any ideas of where to turn.
Remote Host: ool-43532548.dyn.optonline.net
|
|
[4490]Improving tone quality, etc <Lindsay>
