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Offline marielofredwall

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Practicing voicing?
on: August 29, 2013, 12:25:08 PM
My piano teacher gave me one of Bach's sinfonias to learn, and I was wondering how I should practice three part pieces? Should I practice each voice separately? How do I make each of the voices sound different? And if there are two voices on one hand, how should I make those sound different?

Thank you so much for your input!

Offline awesom_o

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Re: Practicing voicing?
Reply #1 on: August 29, 2013, 12:36:30 PM
Voicing is very difficult. You need more hammer velocity for a voice to come out. More hammer velocity comes from more key speed.

Practice being able to play any one or two parts at a time, while singing the other part out loud with your voice.

Offline musicman99

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Re: Practicing voicing?
Reply #2 on: August 29, 2013, 09:46:09 PM
My tip is that you should really have a good fingering sussed out. Then practise all the voices slowly, making sure you adhere to the fingering. If you need to, practise the voices individually (if you feel that they are a challenge in themselves).
To bring the voices out, use more finger action as using wrist or arm action would increase the volume of all the voices being played by one hand.

Hope it helps,

Carlo R.

Offline faulty_damper

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Re: Practicing voicing?
Reply #3 on: August 30, 2013, 12:29:58 AM
When I play fugues, I make voices sound different by terracing the voices.  E.g. alto is played slightly softer than soprano.  When this is done, you can follow the voices dynamically so if a voice drops out and comes back again at the same dynamic level, you'll immediately recognize it.
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