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Re: Intonation

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-07-29 14:18

You have excellent advice on what to do to control pitch and bring notes in tune. Here are two important following steps, which I learned from Gonzalo Ruiz:

STEP 1

Practice intervals, from a note you play in tune (#1) to one of the problem notes (#2).

Play #2, bring it in tune and get a clear mental image of the pitch, and, secondarily, what you do to play it.

Then play #1, bring up the image of #2 and move to it.

Don't make the physical changes consciously. Let the mental image of the correct pitch bring everything else along with it.

This packs everything you do into a single image and action.

STEP 2

On a descending interval, picture holding your hand beneath #2 to support it as you move down.

On an ascending interval, picture holding your hand above #2 to lift it as you move up.

Ken Shaw

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