Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
> At 09:37 PM 6/30/02 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote:
>
>>On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 09:18 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On 1 Jul 2002, at 1:57, John Bell wrote:
>>>
>>>>Does anyone know of other phrases that might help?
>>>>
>>>I was taught "pass the golden butter."
>>>
>>That's a... erhm... "nicer" version of what I believe to be the original
>>mnemonic, "pass the goddamn butter."
>>
>
> I'm not getting any of this. What is that supposed to help with? Maybe you
> have to know a timing trick first before the mnemonic helps, because I sure
> don't see it!
>
> (I'm not a keyboardist at all, but I have conducted two meters
> simultaneously.)
>
That's the whole trick with mnemonics to begin with -- they only jog the
memory if you memorize them to begin with. With rhythms, you obviously
have to say the mnemonic the same way all the time, in proper rhythm and
meter, for it to work at all.
The phrase shows the complete rhythm when you play both parts at once.
Knowing which syllable goes with which hand is part of what gets taught
when you learn the mnemonic. pass is played by both hands, the is l.h.,
gold- (or god) is r.h., en (or damn) is l.h., but- is r.h., ter is l.h.
so you have three notes played by the right hand, spaced appropriately
and four notes played by the left hand, spaced appropriately.
However, for many people remember words is far easier than remembering
abstract sounds. As the husband of a Suzuki teacher, I have seen it
work wonderfully, with all the different mnemonics for the various
rhythms they use playing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Mississippi
hot-dog is far easier for young minds to remember than ti-ti-ti-ti ta-ta.
--
David H. Bailey
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