Successful Ensembles The Question — What makes a successful ensemble? Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Leave a comment Comments 0. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Search for:. Follow Following. Sam Russell. However, as I learned in that singularly mortifying moment all those years ago, it can also help to get our noses out of the score, and use our eyes as well as our ears.
Which of course might mean taking the music home, so that you can learn the part before rehearsal, not during the rehearsal! And if you found that interesting, you may also enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at their musical collaboration with DJ Skratch Bastid :. And that rush of adrenaline and emotional roller coaster you experience before performances is totally normal too. Performing at the upper ranges of your ability under pressure is a unique skill — one that requires specific mental skills, and perhaps a few other tweaks in your approach to practicing too.
And learn how you can develop these into strengths of your own. And begin to see tangible improvements in your playing that transfer to the stage. Again: the Mirror Neuron System!
The Mirror Neuron System. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 27, pp Journ of Psychotherapy , vol 21, No 1. This is absolutely not to devalue your posts — I follow them on a regular basis, now and then adding them to the required reeading of my brass band!
This latest article is, ahum, very very suited for the same band — our poor conductor tries, sometimes desperatedly , to have us look at him! Also — the body language per se is vital as you write — once our beloved conductgor made an unusual movement with his hips and as we in the front-row at least at that time stared at him, we immediately got perplexed and out of sync! All excellent. Please keep us updated on 1. What do the audiences want from this?
Experiments have demonstrated that listening to say a piano concerto, the Mirror Neuron Systems of those in the audience who are familiar to piano-playing, reacts more than those who are not. So brainwave-syncronization between performer and audience thus might be plausible. On the other hand, if say an orchestra really gets in sync, everyone in the band is deeple immersed in the making of that particular chart, the audience gets affected to by this overwhelming output.
Once our band succeeded in performing almost perfectly — when the music was all over we sat stunned — dead quite in the concert hall for say some seconds, then the entire audience rose and the applauses never seemed to end.
In your GCSE there will be some kind of ensemble performance element. Ensemble performances usually feature two or more performers who play or sing together with parts of equal importance. What you choose for your ensemble performance will depend on what kind of musician you are and who is available to perform with you. What specific skills are required to produce a successful ensemble performance? Overall, you need to consider your skills for solo performance and apply them to working with other performers.
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