On 2/1/2011 7:06 PM, John Ross wrote: > What I should have done was forget the number of beats, and just > narrowed the 5ths a smidgeon, and widened the 4ths a smidgeon as well. I'm a firm advocate of the "smidgeon" school of fourths and fifths. As you do them with the smidgeons (and the fourth smidgeon is a little bigger than the fifth smidgeon) day after day, checking for uniformly narrow fifths and uniformly wide fourths, nobody wretched, nobody sweet/perfect either, the fourths just slightly unhappier than the fifths, the smidgeons will center on being exactly what they should be to add up to your carefully chosen octave size. F to F temperament, check contiguous thirds for even progression. (F - A - C# - F) Get your other notes done, filling in between the contiguous thirds, by going through whatever your chosen pattern is. Run major thirds. Run perfect fourths, very carefully. Run perfect fifths. And then run the few major sixths. You will have an awfully good idea how everything is going and where the trouble spots might be. Nudge nudge, tweak tweak. If an interval is wide (or narrow) you can fix it by moving either or both ends. Check the two end notes for how the other notes feel about them, and move the one which the other notes also want moved. It takes some practice, but it isn't rocket science. Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110201/c8a5c15d/attachment.htm>
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