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Manny Laureano · 02-11-2007, 05:31 PM

Your teacher is speaking, appropriately, in descriptive terms. I speak that way to my youth orchestra students because it's the way professionals speak to each other.

You are just learning and have not heard enough great music to start to put sounds into descriptive terms.

Willie Nelson has a nasal sound, Placido Domingo has a round, warm sound.

An electric guitar has a metallic, nasal sound compared to an acoustic guitar's warm, rounder sound.

A marching band playing the lastest heavy metal favorite has a hard sound compared to a great string section playing Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.

Get the picture? If not and if the artists I've mentioned are foreign to you, my point is made; you have to experience greater varieties of music and then your conductor's requests will make more sense. You'll approach playing with an idea that makes sense to you.

ML

02-11-2007, 05:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
Manny Laureano Utimate User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: USA Posts: 5,989	Re: Round Orchestral Sound Your teacher is speaking, appropriately, in descriptive terms. I speak that way to my youth orchestra students because it's the way professionals speak to each other. You are just learning and have not heard enough great music to start to put sounds into descriptive terms. Willie Nelson has a nasal sound, Placido Domingo has a round, warm sound. An electric guitar has a metallic, nasal sound compared to an acoustic guitar's warm, rounder sound. A marching band playing the lastest heavy metal favorite has a hard sound compared to a great string section playing Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. Get the picture? If not and if the artists I've mentioned are foreign to you, my point is made; you have to experience greater varieties of music and then your conductor's requests will make more sense. You'll approach playing with an idea that makes sense to you. ML Last edited by Manny Laureano; 02-11-2007 at 05:36 PM.