Re: [Harp-L] Dynamics related variable intonation.

[Erik Anderson <12bars@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gentlemen, thank you for your responses.

As usual, it seems the answer comes down to patience, persistence, and practice.

I'm sure it's been mentioned on list before, but Douglas T.'s book is
fantastic, it really amounts to being the 'Missing Manual' for the
chromatic (a good deal of it also applies to the diatonic).  I've been
playing music for over 30 years, and been seriously studying the
chromatic for the past 8, finding this book has been a paradigm shift
for me, it's literally drop kicked me off of a plateau that I've been
stuck on for the past 5 years.

Take care,

Erik


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:29:49 -0400, Douglas Tate
<douglas.tate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Yes, hand resonance can be difficult to control.  BUT, it can be controlled
> quite finely.  Try doing a hand vibrato through the resonance point and you
> will find it comes in and goes out fast. However you will note that iy
> doesn't come in suddenly, there is a small window of big variation.
> 
> You CAN control this but, If I were you, I would forget about it  and just
> let it happen over time.  There are so many resonance things happening in
> the body and hands that it is best to let the subconscious to sort it
> out.   Yes it is a combination of inner and outer control.
> Make certain you can do static resonance...
> work on hand vibrato through the resonance.
> Use both in tunes... forget about it for a bit
> It will happen when your ear KNOWS what the sounds are like!
> 
> Very non scientific but ir does seem to work.
> Timescale??  a few weeks to months.
> 
> Douglas T
> 
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