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Re: Playing With Emotion

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2022-04-08 06:56

George Burns once said of acting that the secret to great acting is sincerity......and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

I don't like to speak of emotion, when that is only a very subjective evaluation by the observer. What DOES make sense to me is doing something that catches the attention of the listener. That entails differences of volume from note to note; phrase to phrase. The problem with recordings (opposed to listening to live performances) is that much of what we hear has been "compressed," that is, making the difference between loud and soft LESS so in order to make the quiet passages audible to average listeners under average conditions (less than ideal conditions like while in a car or on a treadmill at the gym). THEN the broadcasters (FM; satellite; YouTube) compress further to make the soft parts even more audible.

But you can experiment for yourself with using greater and greater volume differentials to see what that sounds like to you (listen to any recording of Martin Frost.....his dynamics are very wide and stand out no matter what recording techniques are used). I have suggested before a very simplistic "go-to" of playing louder as you go up the horn, and playing softer as you go down the horn. At very least this is rather euphonic and a good place to start. This will give you a starting point for how you can manipulate a phrase to trigger a more emotional response from listeners...... as well as yourself.

................Paul Aviles

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