10/5/07 (better late than never)
Well tonight I finally got the media mill thing to work so I figured I would post about the Fermatas tonight as well. I had SO much trouble with the rolling stop. Even now, a week later, after I have had a chance to practice them even more I still have trouble. My mind tells me to do one thing and my hands end up doing another. I am sure this will get better with time but the video does not lie and just reinforces the fact that I had so much trouble with that type of fermata.
I think I did a decent job with the others. I got everyone to do what I wanted for every other fermata, especially the complete stop because that one is pretty hard to mess up!! I think the rolling stop is really the only one you have to think about a lot. I also think that I need to play around a bit more with using fermatas on different beats because doing the rolling stop at the fermata in the very last phrase would be a bit trickier than doing a complete stop like I did.
Comments
The trick to the rolling stop is that you dont move too fr too fast. you need to slow your pattern down to show elongation of time and space. If you get too far away from your body it is hard to be clear. We can do some coaching to get through this if ou like.
Posted by: Matthew Mehaffey | October 18, 2007 04:52 PM