Instrument Gym
Weekly. Practice and workout on instruments. Included with residency.
Practice and workout on instruments with fellow residents. Guided sessions, technique exercises, and collaborative playing.
Recent Sessions
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Keyboard techniques on I - IV - V - I (over tonic pedal) V6 - vi7 - IVMaj7 - I. Introducing 7th and 9ths through common tones.
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We worked through melismas — vocal runs and riffs — starting with "Mary Had a Little Lamb" as a simple melodic vehicle for isolating and practicing ornaments. Covered how to find a run, practice it slowly, apply it across all syllables of a song, and then dial it back to build taste in placement. Also addressed how word stress, syllable integrity, and language affect where a melisma can appropriately land.
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non-sequential scale exercises on guitar, picking patterns, use of hybrid picking, switching positions when playing through more than one octave
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