To me, there's no question that using a metronome develops your speed and accuracy. If you're learning scales or you're jamming on parts that you can't quite pull off, it's a must.
rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.
I like to go to old versions and find out what effect beats and scales have on your body, how they can transport you.
I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
Down the road someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails
For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.
in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
I've played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn't be bothered to do the exams or learn my scales.
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance,
when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter
Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.
Big teams are absolutely vital if you want to achieve certain results when you're working on larger scales, both in terms of physical size and productive quantities.
I just calorie count and knock the booze on the head and then watch the scales to see the weight come off. Now I've been very healthy.
I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.
Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity
A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.
Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.
If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.
Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works on these two different scales.
we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.
We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast.
It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.
In traditional 3D printing, the gantry size poses an obvious limitation for the designer who wishes to print in larger scales and achieve structural and material complexity.
In order to have a decent chance to be a communicating species, you would have to learn to think and plan and act over time scales of a century or a millennium.
For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.
If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.
The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.
If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.
Songs that are just a vehicle for a guitar solo are very empty, just an excuse for a guitarist to show what scales he practiced last month.
A whole trout is the ultimate Sunday table centrepiece to replace a hearty roast. It looks a little retro with the radish and cucumber scales, but this also adds freshness and acidity.
In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men.
Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.
I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.
I knew if I wanted to improvise over chord changes, I'd have to figure out all the scales that went with all those chords.
We do scales, vocal exercises every day. I run the voice up and down, get as high as I can and as low as I can. I work on breathing, too.
I'm trying to play tunes in a new way, using all the same scales, harmonies, structures, but twist everything a little bit so that it comes out sounding different.
When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.
Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.
I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano, I had that insatiable need to prove myself.
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.
When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts.
I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!
I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.
The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.
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