Intonation & Sound Quality
Today, much like when I was learning to play saxophone, students only receive about 10 minutes of focused tone control exercises a week. This usually occurs in their private lessons, with the instructor asking the student to match their own tone. But in the days between instruction, the finesse is often forgotten, and sound quality slowly reverts without a reference tone to practice against.
What you need is a tool to allow students to continue practicing developing their sound quality at home.
What you need is Audi-Graph.
Audi-Graph is like a tuner, but when a student plays into the Audi-Graph tuner, they hear a symphony musician playing the same note. Students can even see their timbre, overtones, and harmonics and how it compares to the symphony sound. Designed for student musicians, Audi-Graph quickly conveys the concepts of tone quality to students, providing a consistent objective target to achieve. Much like how tuners easily convey concepts of pitch and allow even the most inexperienced student a goal to practice toward at home.
Audi-Graph is the future of tuners, providing audio and visual goals for students to work with to improve sound quality. Audi-Graph contains a growing library of recordings of symphony, university, and professional musicians playing each note in their chromatic scale. Students select which instrument and musician they want to practice with. Whenever or whatever the student plays, Audi-Graph plays with them.
Tone Matching
Students can practice any scale, warm up, or long tone exercise, and always hear a symphony musician playing along side them. They will always have a professional reference tone to match against and develop their ear. It�s as if they have a private instructor available any time, anywhere, to play whatever the student is playing.
Harmony Training
Audi-Graph can do more than just play back the same note. If you want your students to practice harmony, Audi-Graph can play any chord, based on what the student is playing. They can select a major 3rd and whichever note they play, they will hear the major 3rd and 5th along side. They could even choose to play the 3rd, and Audi-Graph will always play the root and 5th for any note.
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Tempered Tuning
Because tuning within chords is subtle and critical, Audi-Graph can even adjust itself between equal temperament and just temperament tuning! Select any root and Audi-Graph will adjust the tuner and show just how flat to play the 3rd, or how sharp to play the 5th. It will even shift the recorded audio so students can continue to practice listening and matching with accurate playback of the symphony recordings. Students can now practice just tempered tuning at home.
Timbre Visualization
For students and instructors who wish to explore more advanced concepts of tone, Audi-Graph provides a visualization of timbre, showing what a dark sound or a bright sound looks like. Students can see instant feedback of the overtones, harmonics and partials generated as they play. Students can see how details in the tone quality, consistency, shape and characteristics of a professional sound look. And students can practice to visually match the picture of their sound to the picture of the professionals sound./p>
Articulation Analysis
Finally, Audi-Graph is providing a solution to address the complicated subject of articulation. By offering an ability to record students and visually represent their sound on a graph, you can immediately demonstrate the differences between poor articulation (�bwaaaaaahta�) and proper articulation (�daaaaaaa�). Demonstrate �playing with a block of sound� with visual feedback of how their sound is actually produced. Audi-Graph provides feedback to help you communicate desired patterns and consistency for staccato, legato, accents, tongue starts/stops, etc. And if a student is having trouble hearing it, you can slow down the recording in super slo-mo to audibly compare just how long it takes to start and/or stop a note!
If playing with a quality sound is important, you need Audi-Graph
� Tone Matching
� Harmony Training
� Tempered Tuning
� Timbre Visualization
� Articulation Analysis
> record your own musicians/instructors to give to your students
> record yourself and compare how changing mouthpieces/equipment affects your sound