Month: July 2016

Developing Hand – Ear Coordination

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Craig’s article is featured in the April, 2016 edition.

Do you want your improvised solos to soar and delight your audiences?  The first and most important step to achieve this is to develop the link between your ears and your fingers. In fact, ultimately we need to be able to transfer any musical idea we imagine to our fingers. I call this “Hand-ear coordination”.

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What is “Ear Training”?

EAR TRAINING

It is a thrilling moment when a musician first experiences the freedom of playing without reliance on the printed score.  To be able to play a melody by ear or to spontaneously create an improvised solo never before heard provides joy not to be missed by the player  committed to musical excellence.

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