switch click on the metronomescaling fingers racing homebare feet pedal metal flarenotes sustain and float on airstaccato point legato’s phrasesong sheets flutter on for daysforearms cramp and fingers flypieces forte to the skyeyes are fixed on each new noteexercising practiced roteresonating polished boxarpeggio-ing tangled walkson hammered strings precision lieswho’s playing who, by and bycoda’s flareContinue reading “Rhythm Games”
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Self Singing
Whitman had a lot of songs,long and rambling, so many notesventuring all over the melodic rangefrom the highest octaves to thelowest reaches of the bass clef If he was written out on a staff,codified into halves, wholes, and sixteenths,he would be a tangle to rival Brahms,with a reach beyond Rachmaninoff or Liszt You wouldn’t wantContinue reading “Self Singing”
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