On-going Relevant Premises

 

Creating Intent (click for details)

1. Every Note has a Purpose (Intent)—The Soft Kitty Conundrum. pg.1

2. Blend pg. 2

 

Creating Emotion (click for details)

1. Combining and Unifying pg. 4

 

Balance Technique (click for details)

1. Volume as Intent

2. Executing Volume

3. Balancing Volume with Intent

4. Volume should Never Affect Style

5. Comfort Zone Development

6. Interpreting the Four Types of Crescendos

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Creating Style (click for details)

  1. Agogic Emphasis as Style

  2. Three Parts to Every Note

  3. Five Basic Styles of Notes

 

Tone and Tuning Technique (click for details)

1. Tone In-Tune

2. 3-Peat Tuning Method

3. Most humans…

 

Unifying Tempo Technique (click for details)

  1. In-time - - > On-time

 

Involving Your Percussion Section (click for details)

  1. Review Percussion Warm-up Tenets and Procedures

 

Articulation Technique (click for details)

1. Start with a “T” and then dent the air.

2. Quick-Twitch and Slow Twitch

3. Slow Music—Quick Articulation

 

Breathing Technique (click for details)

1. Always take a full, in-time breath.

2. Maintain a steady stream of air.

3. Fill every beat with sound.

4. Never, ever, ever, breathe after a long note Unless we all decide to do so. 

 5. Percussionists must learn to breathe together.