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Author: janlynn
Date: 2007-10-23 12:15
our conductor is always telling us to subdivide in our heads - but this just gets me more confused.
how do you begin the process of subdividing in your head while you are playing something else?
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2007-10-23 12:37
For instance:
I you are playing 4 crotchets in a bar in 4/4 time but the passage you are playing is quavers, then instead of counting to yourself 1 2 3 4 and guessing where the quavers happen, count 1&2&3&4& and each & will naturally fall on the quavers. If you are playing semiquavers then count 1a&a2a&a... etc (pronounced 'one er and er two er'...) then the semis will land in the right place.
If you are in compound time (eg 6/8 which is usually counted 2 beats in the bar), thn count to yourself in quavers 1&a2&a(pronounced 'one and er two...'), and the quavers will be right.
This is what I do. I hope this explanation makes sense.
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Author: marcia
Date: 2007-10-24 03:45
North American translation-crochet is quarter note, quaver is eighth note. We may all read the same music but the lingo is not the same.
Marcia (slightly bilingual)
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Author: janlynn
Date: 2007-10-24 14:25
thanks marcia - i was too embarrassed to say i didnt understand what he meant.
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Author: claritoot26
Date: 2007-10-24 14:43
...and semiquavers be sixteenths!
It's especially important to subdivide when you have a long note followed by short notes.
Like a whole note in 4/4 time, and the next bar is all 16ths. If it's hard for you to subdivide in your head at first, practice tonguing even 16ths on the whole note before the real 16ths start. Do this with a metronome a few times until it's perfectly even and rhythmic. Then play as written (still with the metronome) and try to hear the 16th subdivisions in your head on the whole note before the 16ths start.
This is just an example. Same concept can be applied to eighth note passages or triplets, etc. i.e., practice tonguing the rhythm on one note before the quavers or semiquavers start so you can eventually feel those subdivisions internally. Make sense?
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Author: redwine
Date: 2007-10-24 14:44
Hello,
Just like anything else, practice it and you will get better at it.
Ben Redwine, DMA
owner, RJ Music Group
Assistant Professor, The Catholic University of America
Selmer Paris artist
www.rjmusicgroup.com
www.redwinejazz.com
www.reedwizard.com
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Author: marcia
Date: 2007-10-24 16:29
...and then there are the "hemi" "demi" ....(any more?).... prefixes to add to the equation. 
Marcia
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2007-10-24 22:44
Visiting Birmingham (England) a few years back, I had the good fortune to be in an ensemble guest-conducted by the charming Guy Woolfenden. He commented about American English's strange tendency to make longer words for their British English counterparts, such as "Elevator" for "Lift." Not ten minutes later, he began referring to our 64ths as hemidemisemiquavers.
:)
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: joeyscl
Date: 2007-10-31 09:06
basically count in smaller intervals.
Instead of counting 4 quater notes in a 4-4 bar, count 8 eigth notes instead. (Ie: good if you are struggling with syncopated rhythm)
Post Edited (2007-10-31 09:06)
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