Developing Ensemble Skills - ABRSM
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Developing Ensemble Skills
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Benefits
• Ability to keep going• Maintaining a pulse• Working with others• Hear lines differently• Developing good musical reflexes to respond quickly to change• Encourages students to think about music in a broader and
more flexible context
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Skills
• Learning to count• Being part of a team• Sacrificing notes to maintain the beat• Develops excellent sight-reading skills• Enhance greater flexibility in your playing• Adjust to others in sound • Reflecting dynamic changes as an ensemble
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Different types of piano ensemble?
• Piano Duet (2 pianists)• Accompanying an
instrumentalist• Piano with more than 2 players• Accompanying a singer• Working with a vocal chamber
group• Accompanying a choir• Playing in a jazz band
• Accompanying a choir• Orchestral piano• Repetiteur• Concerto playing • Multiple piano duets
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Piano Duet
• Balance extension from just two hands• Rhythmic foundation• Releases the harmonies and harmonics of the piano• Bass notes set up• A sniff, wrist movement to indicate a start
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Piano accompanying
• Get used to the ability to drop and add beats
• Know how to tune an instrument and advise how to get it in tune
• Balance of the melody- can you hear the soloist?
• Let the soloist dictate the speed
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Chamber music
• Matching sounds to the instruments
• Learning to give a good lead• Be supportive to your colleagues• Learning to give effective,
constructive criticism• Working out similar lines• Poker faces for errors• Using the score to bring others in
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Orchestral Playing
• Following a conductor• Responding to what you see versus
what you hear• Playing with instruments around you
to create a bigger picture• Learning when to come through a
texture and when to balance within it• The necessity for efficient counting• One job within many- no ‘I’ in team
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Piano within an ensemble…
Prepares you for Concerto playing!
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Choral accompanying
• Know how to give vocal warm-ups• Cycle of 5ths - helps to develop chordal
understanding• Practise being able to play 2 lines at the
same time - great skill to enhance contrapuntal playing and understanding
• Score reading and developing an ear for intonation
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Repetiteur
• Following movements rather than a conductor
• Developing skills in improvising within a style
• Working in 8-bar phrases• Working collaboratively across the
arts with different types of artists
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Playing piano in a jazz ensemble
• Play one note well• Notes are your friends• Develop chords and notes that
you already know• Playing in time is crucial• Have a go and learn from your
mistakes
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Tips
• Practise with a metronome• Don’t be afraid to admit technical difficulties• Do not start until everyone is ready• Inexperienced players generally tend to rush semiquavers and
fast passages• Praise first - improve upon second
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The ‘all-round’ musician
Performance skills
Listening skills
Technicalskills
Creative skills Notation skills Knowledge & understanding
An interlocking range of skills, knowledge and understanding is needed in order to develop successfully into a well-rounded musician:
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Reliable ‘all-round’ assessment
Performance skills
Listening skills
Technicalskills
Creative skills Notation skills Knowledge & understanding
(Pieces/Songs) (Aural tests)
(Scales & arpeggios)
(Jazz exams and Practical
Musicianship)(Sight-reading) (Theory exams)
An interlocking range of tests is needed to provide a valid, well-rounded, accurate musical assessment: