Good Exercises For Improving Dynamics?

[AccordionJustice]

I'm wanting to find a way to better control bellows dynamics in the songs I'm playing. When I look on Youtube and the web there doesn't seem to be any demonstrations or exercises on this subject, which is a bit surprising. Does anyone have an effective exercise to do before playing that helps with volume/dynamic control?

 

[Harrytulipan]

I'm wanting to find a way to better control bellows dynamics in the songs I'm playing. When I look on Youtube and the web there doesn't seem to be any demonstrations or exercises on this subject, which is a bit surprising. Does anyone have an effective exercise to do before playing that helps with volume/dynamic control?

Are you talking about becoming better at dynamics in general or are you talking about something more specific?

 

[Harrytulipan]

I found:

Bellow Technique – Movement

Bellow Technique – Movement If you put a clarinet, drummer, guitarist, and an accordionist center stage – before the first note is hit – all eyes are on the accordionist!. YES &#8…

shelialee.wordpress.com

 

[Dingo40]

Your do see quite a number of accomplished accordionists on YouTube successfully applying this technique in their playing.
However, should you be somewhat past your prime, attempting this could be guaranteed to wreck your left shoulder in no time at all!!

 

[AccordionJustice]

Are you talking about becoming better at dynamics in general or are you talking about something more specific?

Just becoming better a dynamics in general. I was just curious if there were any exercise out there that focused on it.

 

[AccordionJustice]

I found:

Bellow Technique – Movement

Bellow Technique – Movement If you put a clarinet, drummer, guitarist, and an accordionist center stage – before the first note is hit – all eyes are on the accordionist!. YES &#8…

shelialee.wordpress.com

Thank you very much Harry.

 

[Ffingers]

Your do see quite a number of accomplished accordionists on YouTube successfully applying this technique in their playing.
However, should you be somewhat past your prime, attempting this could be guaranteed to wreck your left shoulder in no time at all!!

Gently does it, Wilddog.
Little by little.
As you are aware, I am well past my prime and very much a beginner, but using this advice has helped to steady my dynamics and saved me from a lot of movements which could have caused me huge difficulties.
Arthur (Itis) still rules, but with a gentler application of the bullwhip.

 

[JerryPH]

The method for better dynamic control is pretty much the same as anything. The more you do it, the better you become.

Some suggestions:
- play your exercises (you *are* doing exercises, right?) with exaggerated dynamics. Example, first your scales by playing normally and and then play starting VERY soft and building to a crescendo. Reverse the process, do the same with arpeggios. Instead of now thinking "faster, faster!" think "control, CONTROL!". Loud to soft, soft to load.

- find a song with a lot of dynamics and exaggerate them. If they show P, play PPP if they show MF, play F and if they show F, play FFF.

Don't get used to playing it that way live, but learn to over accentuate the dynamics for purposes of becoming aware of it and then when playing live, trim the peaks and valleys but make sure all the dynamics are there to perfection as the song writer placed them.