On Practice: practicing vs. having a practice
For Children and Ensembles
This is a set up for an ensemble of students getting ready for a class.
Rhythm: THREE EXERCISES in CROSS-RHYTHMS
Here you see one visualization of how phrases of different lengths progressively “cross” each other.
Permutations and Embellishments
Slowing Down
Starters
The Cycle of Fifths
1234T—Real-time interval identification
Playing with Intervals
Student Work: Journals
Keyboard Topography
Figured Soprano
Incremental Variation
Student work—York University: Recording Projects
Hand/Mind Coodination Exercises:
Motives over an Ostinato
The Unison Exercise: real-time interval identification
Image for Unison Ex. in the Archive on Listening Page.
Chords & Lines I
Panorama of the Goldberg Variations plus Invaria
“Fifty-fours”
All games and exercises require directed attention. The ones described on this website are intended not only to develop your musicianship as well as your musicality, spontaneity and creativity, but to help you develop a stronger capacity for attention.