IN TOUCH WITH TIME™
HYBRID ONLINE & IN-PERSON PIANO INTENSIVE
Participant, Auditor, or Independent Study.
This piano intensive is a systematic study of timing in performance, an expressive technique that is often overlooked and over simplified as "play with feeling".
Our human relationship with the concept of time is fascinating. The richness of our human history with time perception, time management and timing provides an infinite number of psychological, physical, emotional, and even spiritual lenses. Join me in this unique offering to help you level up your playing, enjoyment, and understanding.
Altering time can emotionally connect audiences to the composer's intensions, and the right amount of nuance can create magical moments. Explore variations in three types of rubato timing, across all the musical elements, including melodic contour, harmony, and phrasing.
Effective timing demands an expanded sense of listening—tracking long arcs of direction rather than single moments of impulse, integrating multiple layers of pulses in both larger groupings and subdivisions instead of just a single uniform pulse.
Key points:
How to change local timing while maintaining the integrity of the larger framework.
How to use TIMING to shape musical elements including melody, harmony, dynamics, and pedaling.
How to integrate spontaneous mindful listening and consistent artistic vision.
How to feel music as our biological pulse.
How to think of timeposts to empower direction.
How to use flexible timing as emotional expression.
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