Musical Energy: Dynamics
This Soundpost comes from the blog post about dynamics, and demonstrates the difference in energy between the same chords and intervals at a louder and softer dynamic level. It uses the same chords and intervals used for Soundpost 3, which dealt with harmonic energy.
Listen to the two playings of the same chord provided below.
Listen to this pair playings of a more energy-laden chord.
Now listen to a pair of harmonic intervals (i.e. just two notes played at the same time).
Another pair of harmonic intervals:
I hope you understand my saying now, about which I’ve written a blog post, “The obvious is in control… expose it!”