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10.0 Practice With A Metronome S ome teachers are sticklers about always practicing a piece with a metronome, and some teachers think that if you rely excessively on a metronome, you won't learn to be musical. However, using the metronome as a tool to play with your scales and music that you are learning will help you improve gradually. Don't turn the metronome up too high at first because a metronome that is too fast will increase the risk of making mistakes when you practice on your musical instrument. Also, don't turn the metronome speed up too fast so that you want to give up. You can set goals <strong>for</strong> improving your speed by ten beats per minute over the period of a week.
11.0 Play With Dynamics M usicians can express their creative instinct and musical individuality by playing notes loudly and softly, using crescendos and decrescendos, and playing single notes with accents. Music students often <strong>for</strong>get to use dynamics. There are a lot of other things you can do combined with dynamics to express a mood with your music. For example, you can make your music more expressive with your “breathing”. (You don’t actually take breaths when playing stringed instruments, but you still need to include breath-like pauses). If you sing a phrase, it will help you find the natural place where a breath should be. With experience, you will learn how to do this. It can even be hard to decide where to take a breath when you are playing a wind or brass instrument. You can play notes with different styles, which help you give the piece a specific feeling. You can play “lightly” or harshly. You can play staccato note or legato note styles. Can you think of more techniques?
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