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Author: huboboe
Date: 2012-06-12 16:53
Your comment on the short 16th at the beginning of a slurred group interested me because I've seldom heard the problem mentioned, though my teachers drilled it into me and I have passed it along to my students.
I had always treated it as a an isolated thing to be avoided until I read David McGill's excellent book, "Sound in Motion."
He pointed out that it is a note grouping problem: If you treat all four 16th in the beat as a group you will likely rush the first one. If you group the notes correctly, the first 16th is the arrival note from the previous beat. The next three 16ths are pickups to the first 16th on the following beat: Dum - dadadaDum - dadadaDum. (Think Beethoven...).
Thought of that way, the first 16th will become the important note of the group and will retain it's full value. Its also better (correct) musical phrasing.
If you haven't met McGill's book yet, I highly recommend it. I played for lotta, lotta years before I read it and it still had a lot in it that I had not considered.
Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com
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