Tip of the Day: On technique: Its exactly as if you ask to a frog to sing. Even if she has a beautiful style in her mind, she will never be able to sing correctly. If you have not a good sound, not a good staccato, not a good support, what can you do? Even if you have a heart and love for music, you will never express to the people what you feel. You will always play badly, and the people will never be able to catch the inside of you. In a masterclass when I see that a student has bad attacks, bad vibrato, bad support, bad breathing, bad tonguing, bad fingers, I stop the student to say, Okay, play for me a scale Then, okay, I will tell you how to play a scale, how to play an arpeggio, how to play a staccato passage. Its more important to do these things right than to work on a Mozart concerto, because without good technique you will be unable to play Mozart all your life. Jean-Pierre Rampal, Flute Talk January, 1984
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:05:47 +0000
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