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jason kleinberg wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
In this lesson, I demonstrate 17 ways to practice the tune Jenny Lynn. This will make your sessions fun and productive. You’ll learn the tune at a deep level as you improve various aspects of your […]
That is awesome.
Tanks 🤓
I’ve started using these techniques in my practice. Please consider doing a lesson on transposing to a minor key. I need some help with that one!
Good idea @debhill
Here’s a quickie lesson on how to do it.
-Play a major key tune.
-Play its major scale.
-Play the minor (Aeolian) scale (lower the third, sixth, seventh steps)
-Sub out those notes as they fall in the tune.
Have fun…
Thanks for the help with the minor key transposition.
Mary
Thanks for your help!
FiddleHed Group 1 Intermediate ( 3 members created during the first breakout group session) are practicing this tune, some suggested variants, and / eventually the variations with double stops, etc. It is quite fun and quite challenging! We are going to continue next week.
Thanks, Jason and team!!!!!
Nice @sarahb,
I wanna hear what you guys come up with 🎻
Just finished watching the video. Excellent suggestions! Even though I’ve been playing flute, piano for decades (teach and perform both), practicing does seem like ‘work’ sometimes, especially now when we can’t play with live people -although we’re starting to see a light at the end… Yay! Now I’m going to try them out.🎶😊
Hey @hmk,
You can apply this creative practice approach to any instrument. Have fun 🕺🏾
Great tone from that beautiful fiddle.
My practice creatively is
#1 grabbing my mandolin to learn the fingering and possible double stops. Then I transition back to the fiddle and find the fingering more easily, plus it’s on key.
#2 I happen to have more speed for fire bluegrass tunes on the mandolin, so I play that till I’m comfortable then transition back to the fiddle. It works to get past mental blocks/plateaus when picking up the speed on the fiddle and playing clean!
Rise+Shine!
Ginger on Ruby Road
Jason, You are awesome, and you make learning fiddle fun, and this video made me smile. Timing is my biggest challenge, so I will try the metronome…. Thank you! 🙂
Awesomeness
Thanks so much!! Some of these things I’ve done, but not all! I love your lessons!!
Love all these suggestions! Have done a lot of them, but I need to practice playing things way over there in the minor key more.
I’m sure you talk about this somewhere else, but I also love to swing the beat when I’m trying to wrap my head around a new tune… sometimes I just like them better that way anyway.
the klezmer way is totally cool