Technology and Arts

Today the technology plays a fundamental role in the study of every performer. Now I will share my five essential technologic platforms/ gadgets:

1. Tuner:

The tuner is an essential gadget for all musicians, with this we can get an objective reference of intonation. The good intonation is a basic feature of any instrument, especially if we are playing with other musicians. Some tuners have a function call pedal note, this is a very useful tool for the scales and arpeggios training, because we can develop our tuning ability with a reference.

2. Metronome:

This gadget changes the music since XIX century. The metronome brings us an objective reference of tempo. The tempo is an essential characteristic of music, with a good inner tempo we can play a correct relation between the different rhythms of a piece. Today we download free apps of metronome to our smartphones, so play out of tempo today has not excuses.

3. Recorder:

This is another gadget that change the course of music. Thanks to the recorders, we can hear a performance all the times that we want. For first time the musicians can hear himself. This tool created a new musical market, and the musical profession changed forever. This is an invaluable tool for the practice, because we can hear things that we can’t notice meanwhile we are playing, we can hear the greats musicians and learn a lot of thing of their performances.

4. Video Camera:

This gadget is like recorder, we can look ourselves and correct bad postures. This is essential for the practice, today we can film us with any smartphone, and if we can’t do this a mirror is another good tool. Today a video of a performance can be shared in the social media and publicize us.

5. IMSLP

Unlike the others technological gadget, this isn’t an object, but a website. In this we can find more than 150.000 musical works free. It’s a fundamental library for all classical performers, in this site we can find complete parts of a symphony, sonata or concerto. Thanks this we can create a complete concert within spending money in sheet music. The only disadvantage is that in there we can find only public domain works, generally music previous at the first quarter of XX century. So if we want play the star wars soundtrack, we have to buy the music.