#alregretto

[tumorsandmusic]

how is vibrato produced on the flute? i don't play the flute (or any woodwind) but i've wondered for a while how it works.

It’s a manipulation of air to change the pitch and dynamic of the note slightly.  There are a lot of schools of thought on how that should be done but whatever....

[tumorsandmusic]

35 for the 2015 ask thing

35: Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2015. Meet-cute’s do not a relationship make.

[hexaviolet]

alregretto replied to your post “.”

honestly same. altos are lovely and it's a shame that there aren't as many pretty songs/solos written for them as sopranos. i very much wish i were able to sing farther down in the third octave than i can bc low notes are so very powerful and awesome

i’m like a weird alto-with-a-tenor-extension or something aND I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO SING IN THE OCTAVE ABOVE MIDDLE C WITHOUT MY VOICE CRACKING AND BREAKING EVERY OTHER NOTE D: but yes low notes are amazing ^-^

[fighting-for-a-retreat]

1, 15, 31

1. Put your iPod on shuffle and list the first 6 songs that come up!

The Walkmen - Heaven / The Carpenters - Top Of The World / Vladimir Horowitz - Hexameron by Franz Liszt / OutKast – Hey Ya / Philippe Hirschhorn - Poème by Ernest Chausson / David Giguère - Carambolage 

15. How do you vent your anger?

I used to throw anything soft I owned to the ground and go cry in the closet. I used to write about it, but I have nosy parents so…Then more recently, I went through a stage of clawing my skin off until it bled; or punching the wall, hard (rather like an anime character lol). And even more recently, I scribble really hard with an ink pen until it breaks completely. Contrary to the above paragraph, I am not a violent person :p 

31. Do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong?

Nahh 

thank you for the ask! <3

[i-remember-there-was-mist]

about perfect/relative pitch - what i do when asked to sing a pitch is match it to a melody/song that i know contains that note. i can also do it when hearing a pitch, and i can tell what it is by matching it to another song. i know that's not perfect pitch, since i have to reference a prior memory to get the note, but does it count as relative pitch if i'm not relying on another sound heard at that time? or am i just good at remembering sounds?

That is not relative pitch, no.  It’s more that you’re just very good at remembering sounds!  That’s how many people who are not born with perfect pitch can essentially “learn” it, though it’s important to test yourself with a tuner, because often what our mind tells us is a remembered pitch is often a bit off.  But if you can train yourself in this and consistently match with a tuner, you can essentially learn perfect pitch.  

Now, let’s say you can always remember an E because of some song you know.  Then if somebody says, “sing a B,” and you remember the E and then sing the B off of that remembered pitch, then that is relative pitch!

[projectbot13]

i have a history test tomorrow. can you help me remember things about the french and indian war?

Someone if something plants are actually youve got hour a real social think wasps.

[hexaviolet]

alregretto replied to your photoset “well that escalated quickly”

are you serious N O why would he fucking even

IKR LIKE HE KNOWS I’M ACE AND EVERYTHING WHY WOULD HE DO THIS 

[first-suite-in-eflat]

5, 16, 32

5. Is there a situation where you caved into peer pressure and regretted it?If joining band counts then yes.16. What was the last movie you watched?White Christmas32. Who is probably talking a load of crap about you right now?I have no idea. Lots of people probs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯