Duos: extending call and response to continuous canons / In this collection we are practicing in duos. There is a focus on the simultaneous listening, thinking and playing. The players are alternating between leading and following, extending the call and response to larger phrases and ultimately to

an overlapping canon. 

1 - Extending call and response to a real-time canon, an example.  This video shows an example of how the exercise can be performed. Each of the players is once a leader and once a follower.

Practice: try and play a continuous canon with a fellow student. Agree on a key and meter, and alternate in roles of leader and follower. You may think that following is harder, but in fact the leading role is the more difficult one: the leader has to anticipate how the lines come together, while at the same time ensuring continuity in time.

3 - Canons: Val and Hui Min. 

Practice: try and play a continuous canon with a fellow student. Agree on a key and meter, and alternate in roles of leader and follower. You may think that following is harder, but in fact the leading role is the more difficult one: the leader has to anticipate how the lines come together, while at the same time ensuring continuity in time.

5 - Some advice to improve. Very often the follower is not aware enough of the first note in the phrase. One can stay on track by  more consciously listening to each first note of the phrase, and 'telling' yourself its relative number in the scale.

Practice: try and play a continuous canon with a fellow student. Agree on a key and meter, and alternate in roles of leader and follower. You may think that following is harder, but in fact the leading role is the more difficult one: the leader has to anticipate how the lines come together, while at the same time ensuring continuity in time.

4 - Canons: Nini and Ping Din. 

Practice: try and play a continuous canon with a fellow student. Agree on a key and meter, and alternate in roles of leader and follower. You may think that following is harder, but in fact the leading role is the more difficult one: the leader has to anticipate how the lines come together, while at the same time ensuring continuity in time.

2 - Canons: Edgar and Ping Hui. 

Practice: try and play a continuous canon with a fellow student. Agree on a key and meter, and alternate in roles of leader and follower. You may think that following is harder, but in fact the leading role is the more difficult one: the leader has to anticipate how the lines come together, while at the same time ensuring continuity in time.