Friday, January 14, 2005

About Timing and Continuous Scales

Ever wonder how a violin player finds all the notes without the frets? It may seem amazing, actually as you would say there must be a reliable way they couldn't have learned without. This is like a continuum and also like problems with timing, where if you realize you already have the idea right in general but you can't get the timing, often the best question to ask is, too slow or to fast, for the frets, higher or lower? If you don't know and suspect this would be the problem for time, try to speed up or slow down, once you're sure, then you can adjust the speed like the notes on the violin by saying, for time "faster" if you're too slow with each rep, or slower if say your right hand is out of time till you're finally in balance. You can make an exact "map" of your memory of the frets of the violin if you go over it a lot or enough to balance each move between the two opposites, sharp or lower on the violin or, fast or slow about time. Here too you see that all you have to do is use opposites to achieve sharp resolution, you don't have to know all the waves of physics, just that it's optimal and sounds best. While no doubt you have to consider the overall zoom, and some notes won't fit without consideration of some others, this too is where sharp resolve is of more worth yet, and is often the only way to achieve high enough resolution to be of a high level of audio culture or higher to Memo, the bosses wife, at any rate!