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WEEKLY BLOGS
The journey of a growing multi-instrumentalist and her composing.
This week I focused on playing my alto saxophone and improvising solos on my Gretsch guitar. I'm using various scales and tweaking partials to create a sense of growth in the solo. I've continued to practice my jazz scales on trumpet as well. I've also come to the realization that its easier to come up with music first through improvisation, and then to compose the music.
During band class this week we had some different college band directors come in to help us improve our music for MPA. I learned a lot this week about exaggerating accents when needed to help shape the music. It's always nice to have input from other directors to open your mind to other musical concepts. When the director decided to focus on the bass voices it gave me some potential rhythmic ideas to support the melody throughout the piece I'm writing. To really bring out each instrument throughout the piece I think it would be cool to pass of the melody to other instruments during the piece. I think I might create a polyphony so I can have two main melodies throughout the piece.
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AuthorI'm Hannah Baldwin, I'm a sophomore in highschool and I'm apart of my high-school Symphonic Band and marching band. I play multiple instruments such as trumpet, alto saxophone, trombone and guitar. I love composing music. Archives
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