Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2007-07-27 20:10
May I suggest something else to add to your long tone practice?
First, use your tuner as you already mentioned. Gotta love the auto-tune feature, and remember to try to imagine your pitch first then play and adjust.
Its a very different thing from playing, watching a dial and then adjusting.
Perhaps the first pitch is hard to imagine (sans prefect pitch), so hearing a reference tone then playing is not a bad idea.
After that, once settled into a ood long tone, try to sing the next note in your mind, or for that matter really sing it then play the oboe.
Eventually, turn on your tuner as loud as it will go on a pitch, match it, then move to other pitches and play the interval. The auto-dial will not follow you and you will naturally tend toward non-equal tempered tunings. That is fine.
Listen carefully and you may even detect the difference tones (little buzzes way down low). They can be made to fill out the triad for whatever close interval you are playing, or be made to produce an octav or fifth to reenforce your pitch and resonance of sound.
There is a lot to learn on this topic but they are useful for tuning with other players and pretty easy to hear in the high register at close intervals such as 2nd and 3rds.
Then, if you can maintain the desired difference tone while playing from pp - ff -pp, you will really get control over your pitch at various dynamics.
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