rhythm
motto is: rhythm is melody-melody is rhythm
timing is:to be aware, that your part is embed in rhythm and time of the whole group ( jazz combo, bigband, classic chamber oder orchestra).
agogic is: make "drive", play forward on the beat or lay back.
articulation is: the many possibilities to perform rhythm and melody.
Let's have a look on patterns from Mozart to Ellington:
- Mozart's Adagio in clarinet concerto with 3/4 metrum very slow, so you need to count in eights. Try to play first the melodies with a good timing and "legato". Therefore it is helpful to take the " pro metronome-app" with sub divisions and accents. Second: hear and analyze the form of the adagio, what does the orhestra?How can give it a clue to me to play in the right time. Sight reeding is good with the partitur you can get from "imslp.org". For classical accompainiments there are MMO or midi files in the web. I hear midi files with " sibelius", there are different possiblities to choose chamber orchesters. Third: Play with the masters: I need " anytune" to make it slower or to set loops and I take a good headphone to hear the fineness what the master make. I search the best fingering and draw it on the paper.
- Jazz-Pattern:
look the wonderful videos from Tim Collin, it isn't possible to explain it better. Memorize that 4-Bar Pattern and need it with the pentatonic scale, then need it in your solo with "BaiB" . Try to learn it like a vocabularity. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSICMgSqzIk)
Rena Janßen were our Vocalist with Septett the " Swing Affair" and with Trio "Tri Jazz" over many years. the picture is from Altstadtfest 1995 in Dinslaken NRW. Rena is unforgotten , we are very thankfull playing with her.
Her last session with Scala Band was 2019 iin Weseler Kulturhaus Scala. Listen at mp3 below
