Six Ways to Use Intonation Duets
Six Ways to Practice Intonation Duets One of my favorite pieces of my fundamentals routine has become playing a handful of these intonation duets with a pre-programmed drone. There are 38 intonation duets taken from books by Kling and Gumpert and compiled into one volume by John Ericson. For each duet, the bottom part plays a scale pattern and the top part plays an accompanying melody. Here, I have programed the scale pattern into my Dr. Drone app and streamed it through a bluetooth speaker to play against. I have used these in dozens of different ways to help improve both pitch and time. Here I will demonstrate six of my favorite ways to use these exercises. For these examples I'll be using duet #8. 1. Basic - Play as written with both metronome and drone. Tempo should be moderate - around half note =60 for this one. Play at a comfortable mezzo dynamic. 2. No Metronome - Everything here stays the same as #1 but removing the metronome presents a challenge t...