Klarinet Archive - Posting 000170.txt from 2002/03

From: Ragnhild Kristine Brekke <rkbrek99@-----.no>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music Theory
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:41:06 -0500

Hi,

all your feedback is appreciated - lost of great ideas here! :) - but I'm
not sure you "got my question"..; it was actually a language-related
problem, not a music theory problem.. lol.. :) thanks again!

Ragnhild

At 13:55 08.03.2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I also suggest taking these simple triads and playing them in an inverted
>fashion. Most players have no problem rapidly playing triads 1-3-5 but
>3-5-1 for example (C major, E-C-G) can present new challenges. Not only is
>inversion study good for technique but it's helpful in training the ear to
>hear various intervals. Run these little triplet exercises ascending and
>descending (5-1-3 or 3-5-1, etc.)chromatically and in the circle of 4ths and
>5ths and you will discover if you don't know already that simple triads
>aren't so simple.
>
>Dr. Kenneth E. Powell

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