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This Week's
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Qs 5 I stand by my position that Planet Blackdogred can make up her own mind whether to be a musician or not, but it occurs to me that someone here can tell me: what IS a fine living as an accompanist? And I don't mean just $$$wise, though what $$$ are we talking about? Living out of a suitcase? Indulging divas? Contempt of the divas? Little artistic freedom? High satisfaction?  I just was over at Jack Reilly's website where I am almost as abashed by how much I don't know as I am impressed by how much he does. I've been very seriously considering restarting, after 30 years, piano lessons. I want to understand chord theory first and foremost - Jack's comment about the 2000+ constructions on one tone fascinates me, and a comment he made about training the ear sounds like exactly what I'd like.When I approach possible teachers (and does anyone know of one in the DC area? I don't want to have the same teacher as Planet: that'd be intruding into her space) what books, what programs, what methods should I be asking for if I'm more interested in learning theory than honing performance (understanding they're not mutually exclusive)? Any thoughts on this? Oh, and what is a D-D-Sch chord? (It's mentioned in a novel I'm reading - about which more later.) Wdnsdygdns: |
