8th MUSIC ACADEMY in Ayvalik

The Ayvalik Internation Music Academy - AIMA - will take place in Ayvalik again, at the end of this summer.



This summer music academy meets many students from different parts and conservatories around the world, with extremely wonderful teachers from different parts of the world.

Lessons taking place for 10 days, students both take lessons nearly everyday and attend to many other lessons of other students. More than that, they have the chance to share information, music and experience with each other in the friendly atmosphere of the academy. Also, performaing ensemble performances during the academy, and also having the concert night at the end of the masterclass period is another benefit.

This year's teachers are as follows:

VIOLIN - Lukas DAVID, Jan TALICH
VIOLA - Vladimir BUKAC
CELLO - Peter BRUNS
CLARINETTE - Julian MILKIS
FLUTE - Vieri BOTTAZINI

All necessary information and application procedure can be found at the official website of the academy:
http://www.ayvalik-music.com/

Here is a software METRONOM

Although a METRONOM is known to be a tool which counts the beats for the player to keep up with the rhythm when practicing, it has in fact, many other useful benefits. Other than counting beats and controlling the rhythm it can be used for many progressive purposes. For the violin family...

One of them is to use a metronom at the difficult passages in term of articulation, position shifting, or any difficulty regarding the bow usage. The passages should be practiced studying with a very slow tempo, keeping up with the metronom, and controlling the mechanics of the playing carefully. Then gardually increasing the tempo of the metronom, the difficult passage can be played at the requested tempo. The difficulty is to be patient, and slowly practicing with metronom with patiance, which I can not do perfectly either. Always tending to try it at a tempo, or metrnom free disturbs the progress.

Another one is for the basic bowing exercises and also scale studies. In bowing studies, I sometimes find myself, having a tendency, to increase the tempo especially in whole length bows, or more difficult bowing styles. Metronom keeps the tempo fixed and practicing always at the correct tempo, provides a good progress, in my opinion. In growing up speed and articulation in scale studies, using a metronome is very useful especially not to slow down or increase the tempo especially when faced with high position difficullties.

For me, I can not tell that I'm practicing these perfectly and achieve a thousand miles in technics, but I try my best and these are a couple of ideas about using the metronome efficiently, hope you got something new...!



For those musicians who don't have a metronom, or for a safety incase,in your mailbox, here is a software metronom that can run on a PC. Here is the very tiny metronom program: metronom.zip

The link which is taken from the Turkish website: Beethoven Klasik Muzik Sitesi

WHAT IS THIS ROOM ABOUT

This musicians room will share information both about music in many viewpoints, and also about anything that is considered to be shared.

Both for listeners and also for those who spend time in the kitchen of music, I will try to post information and my ideas, and people's ideas and information about music, in a wide range.

But I must admit that my being a cello student,
which will might tend me more on the strings family.

Hope that you find something for yourself...!