And it does, in some ways, the same thing as the left hand
does except it would probably show more of a pattern as it does it.
So we might go,.
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So as it gets stronger, I'm making more space, I'm pushing out
and up, and as it recedes, we get smaller, and into the body.
And some folks don't like the, the pushing out gesture.
They think that this 3D is not readable by a
large group, and you can experiment that for, for yourself.
So it might just get bigger as the phrase gets stronger.
And then, just gets smaller, and come maybe slightly closer to the body.
And they can mirror each other this way.
A few things to avoid, again, are just beating time all
the way through, because it's not showing a phrase at that point.
One example, I would say where it can use the
beat is to show and indicate the end of a phrase.
I often call that just landing on the phrase.
So we might say at the middle of this gesture.
In the middle of this phase, we were just singing.
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You notice how I almost placed the middle
of that phrase on that downbeat, and it can
be a good way to shape the phrase in your head, to plan out, okay, where's it go?
It starts here,
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There and then comes back.
And then lands there, then goes again.
And then lands at that spot after.
Just that's not the words to the tune, of course.
But if you can shape your phrase that way and know, okay, it's going to here.
And then you can make the gesture, imitate that.
And that's a good exercise to do in your score study anyway, to
figure out where the phrase begins, and then where does it go to.
Not just where it begins, but, the beginning and
ending point, and then our gesture just imitates that.
A few other things to think about, and in
terms of more subtlety is, it's often a good idea,
or at least a good exercise, to almost make
a graph of where you think that phrase should be.
It's a good way to get more subtlety in what your
left hand and right hand are doing in terms of phrasing.
To sing the melody, or listen to the melody, or play the melody,
and as you do it, trace almost on paper energy of the phrase.So,
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Then it might get stronger.
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And then once you trace that out, then all your
left hand is going to do is just mimic that shape.
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