Bryan Baker – Principles of Music 3 – Phrasing

This is the Third part of Bryan’s Four-Part series. In this masterclass Bryan discusses the philosophy of Phrasing as it builds as a concept from his previous 2 masterclasses.

 

Timestamps and soundbites for this lesson are currently being updates and will be re-posted here on Wednesday 30th November

 

Soundbites

08:30 – The key to understanding musical phrasing is undersxtanding phrasing with speech.

14:05 – A melody can’t exist without its counter part which is it’s phrase

26:30 – Chord Tones are the rocks that get you across the water.

28:20 – Everyone listening to you wants those anchor points

32:00 – By nailing Melody and Phrasing together, you can get people to go with you anywhere

36:00 – Changes are easy to play, changes tell you what to do…. The more changes you have , the less options you have

46:00 – It’s really easy to play nonsense, but its hard to sing nonsense

53:45 – if you have the best tone in the world and horrible timefeel, you may as well have no tone at all

1:01:00 This is the gutiarist the Bryan mentions. Sean Shibe