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Re: final note in studies

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-11-21 05:24

If you consider those held long notes from a completely technical point of view, they should last longer than the same note without the fermata - somewhere past 5 for a four beat note, past 4 for a three beat note, etc.

You can certainly use them as way to practice controlling the end of a long tone in a musical way. Some may appropriately fade to nothing, some may want to be sustained at full volume but without a rough or mechanical ending. Depending on context, it may be a way to check on your breath control to pace your air so that you have enough to control the last note.

But they're etudes - study pieces - not meant for performance, so not really meant for anyone else to hear. In the end (no pun intended), it really doesn't matter. If you can get some musical or technical benefit out of holding it, all to the good. If not, no one else will care. :-)

Karl

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