Author: Loree BF51
Date: 2012-06-12 02:44
The beginning of your fourth paragraph is key! He insisted that you listen very carefully and not let your eyes close which somehow also tends to allow the ears to close somewhat. He wanted you to think of listening to your sound bouncing off the walls and coming back to you. He had a very good recorder (Berlant, then Nagra) and a Neumann U-47 mic (early, non-mylar capsule, then AKG 414's) and he recorded himself a lot. I'm just guessing that maybe he once played back a 15 ips recording at 7.5 and discovered this tendency to rush the first 16th of a figure with two 16th's slurred and then two tongued. His vocalisation of this, was pudup--, puh, puh, instead of doing pee--, up,puh,puh, with a slight accentuation and elongation of the first 16th of the four. Many very fine players on many instruments make this slight rythmic error, even Rampal. But, not Heifitz! I think you may find in this recording, ample evidence of this concept and why then, his rythym is so solid.
Am I even spelling "rythym" correctly? Regards.
R. Still former student
Post Edited (2012-06-12 02:58)
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