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Be Dynamic – Quick Practice Tip

Teacher: Vi Wickam

About Be Dynamic – Quick Practice Tip:

[The song I play at the beginning of this Quick Tip is called Lover’s Waltz from my Fiddle Tune a Day Series].

Hi everybody, Vi Wickam here with another [my] Talent Forge Quick Tip of the Week.

This Quick Tip is Be Dynamic!

We’ve all heard of using dynamics in our music. But those dynamics really are a reflection of what’s going on right here and right here.

If we’re just trying to play louder or play quieter, that’s not really going to have the same impact as being loud or being quiet.

The way we’re going to be- the emotion we’re expressing, the dynamic we’re expressing, is going to show up in our music. So, we can be quiet… or we can be loud!

We can be soft, or we can be really angry! And we can do all of this in our music.

We can be joyful in our music. And all of those dynamic changes in us will show up in the music.

So let me hear you be dynamic! Do it in your music. Show your personality! Let me see it. And let the people around you see it.

Have a great week, and I’ll see you next time.

About Vi Wickam

Vi Wickam of Loveland, CO has been performing fiddle and writing music since before he could read. Along with his brothers and dad, The Wickam Family Band performed regularly on Blinky’s Fun Club, a nationally syndicated TV program.

Vi’s fiddling can be heard on numerous CD recordings, including two of his own. He’s played with many different bands throughout the United States, and even briefly in England.

Among his fiddling honors, Vi has won the Colorado State Championship twice, and been a finalist four times at the Grand Masters’ Fiddler Championship. He has judged fiddle contests throughout the US, and directed regional and state level fiddle contests.

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