{"id":769,"date":"2011-02-02T10:20:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=769"},"modified":"2011-02-02T10:20:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:20:34","slug":"caterpillar-song-with-lh-harmonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/caterpillar-song-with-lh-harmonics\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillar song with LH Harmonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Caterpillar-Is-So-Slow_Page_1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Caterpillar-Is-So-Slow_Page_11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-772\" title=\"The Caterpillar Is So Slow_Page_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Caterpillar-Is-So-Slow_Page_11-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Caterpillar-Is-So-Slow_Page_11-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Caterpillar-Is-So-Slow_Page_11-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Caterpillar-Is-So-Slow_Page_11-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Caterpillar-Is-So-Slow_Page_11-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Caterpillar-Is-So-Slow_Page_11-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Caterpillar-Is-So-Slow_Page_11.jpg 1654w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>I decided to be very brave and write a song with LH harmonics.\u00a0 My students absolutely love playing pieces that don&#8217;t quite fit into the &#8216;normal&#8217; style of playing\/composing.\u00a0 Ones with harmonics, freedom of expression, cluster chords, playing with your fist etc seem to create a lot of enthusiasm, and you can guarantee those pieces will be practised and performed at home.<\/p>\n<p>I have written this piece in 3\/4 time.\u00a0 It has a little bit of a lilt to it but it shouldn&#8217;t be played too fast.<\/p>\n<p>Students might be able to hear the &#8216;munch&#8217; sound the caterpillar makes in the middle of the piece.\u00a0 What do they think happens at the end with the quintuplets?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to print out a copy for your students, click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/The-Caterpillar-Is-So-Slow1.pdf\">The Caterpillar Is So Slow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to be very brave and write a song with LH harmonics.\u00a0 My students absolutely love playing pieces that don&#8217;t quite fit into the &#8216;normal&#8217; style of playing\/composing.\u00a0 Ones with harmonics, freedom of expression, cluster chords, playing with your fist etc seem to create a lot of enthusiasm, and you can guarantee those pieces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}