Archive for February 11th, 2010

Imagine How You Want to Sound Before You Play

0 Comments Published by David Motto February 11th, 2010 in Phrasing Music

You can’t get what you want, ’til you know what you want.  Joe Jackson had a hit song based on this truth, and nowhere is this idea more important than in phrasing music. Your phrasing is determined by your ideas about the meaning of the music.  The meaning then determines how you should phrase specific sections. [...]

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