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| Issue: # 54
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September/2010 | |
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Dear 
Here's your JB Linear Monthly Freebie.
This month the freebie download is "Strange Attractors, for those bored with the same old scales" These are scale exercises derived from "The Scale Book" by Nicola Orioli. Both treble clef and bass clef scales are included.
What does "Strange Attractors" mean? In a major scale the interval of a minor 2nd naturally attracts the next note, especially with notes 7 and 8. The scales in this collection, with their odd interval structures, provide for interesting "strange attractors".
You can access the freebies of the past in the JB Linear Music Archive. Click on "Freebie Archives" at the left. |
| New Music at JB Linear | | |
Christmas Music!
Top Ten Christmas Carols - This year my Christmas music settings are the top 10 Christmas carols selected by the BBC Music Magazine. So far the woodwind quintets are complete and more for flute and clarinet quartets, etc are coming soon. Here is the list of the top ten:
- #10 Sussex Carol (version by Vaughan Williams
- #9 O Magnum Mysterium (version by Gabrieli)
- #8 Of the Father's Heart Begotten
- #7 O Come All Ye Faithful (version by F. Liszt)
- #6 There is No Rose
- #5 Tomorrow Shall Be MY Dancing Day
- #4 Coventry Carol (in the style of William Byrd)
- #3 A Spotless Rose (version by Herbert Howells)
- #2 In Dulci Jubilo (version by J S Bach)
- #1 In the Bleak Midwinter (Drake)
If you click on the "Top Ten Christmas Carols" link you can find score and audio samples to review.
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| Poll and Survey Results | | | Current Poll at JB Linear
Here are the results of the last poll about how many hours practicing per week do you do:
less than 1.......9%
1-5.................40%
6-9.................23%
10-15.............17%
16-21...............9%
22-26...............3%
27+..................8%
146 total responses |
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Next month's Freebie Download:
"Two J.S. Bach Chorales" for various woodwind quartets.
Player's quinte* of the month:
Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding. (Sir James Galway)
"the practice of scales enables one to solve a greater number of technical problems in a shorter time than the study of any other exercise" (Andres Segovia)
Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo. (Kirk Hammett)
Have fun playing!
Sincerely,
John Gibson
JB Linear Music
*quinte: sometimes it is a quote, sometimes it is a hint
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