FAQs - Mini Masterclasses

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• Articulation - the most overlooked way to make music come alive
• Cadences - understanding musical punctuation
• Campanella - sounding like bells and not like a bag of spanners
• Chord Types - how classical chords are named
• Damping - we spend years learning to get the "damn ping" to come out right - now learn how to stop it with "damping"
• Degrees of the scale - how to name a note without using its name!
• Dynamic Range - the highs and lows of every performance
• Equal Temperament - why "in tune" isn't "in tune"
• Fast Playing (see Speed)
• Graded Exams - what are they?
• High Position Work - see also Seventh Position
• How fast is fast? - How many notes a second?
• Intervals - measuring the gap between two notes
• Italian Terms - understanding the wishes of the composer
• Key Signatures - how many, and what are the rules?
• Modulation - what it is, what it's likely to be
• Musical Devices - how to turn notes into music
• Phrasing - a little look at this mystical subject of lyricism
• Restringing - how to tie those knots
• Seventh Position - what a great place to be - see also High Position Work
• Speed - how does one play effortlessly and quickly?
• Strings - how to restring and when to restring
• Sustain - how to sound more effortless
• The Three Chord Trick - understanding what's underlying the music
• Time Signatures - why isn't 2/2 the same as 4/4?
• Tone Production - the whys and hows
• Tuning Problems - why is it so hard to tune up?
• Up the neck - some pluses and minuses
• Vibrato - what's it for?
• Volume (see Dynamic Range)
• When to restring - see also Restringing - the how-to

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