New discovery
E
Right below F, on the first line of the staff. F and E are so close together that they form your first pair of notes.
Every week has a purpose.
The SPALLA method organizes your horn practice week by week, with a clear purpose.
- MONDAYThe week's purpose: something concrete to learn.
- TECHNIQUEExercises to make that sound right.
- MUSICReal music that contains it.
- APPLICATIONYou use it in a piece, with everything before it.
- SUNDAYThe week closes. Another begins tomorrow.
One week. One purpose. One step forward.
Each week has a concrete purpose.
Technique prepares it, music contains it, and you apply it.
What's new rests on what came before.
On Sunday, the week closes. The next one starts from there.
- TECHNIQUE
- MUSIC
- APPLICATION
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Week 1D
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Week 2+ E
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Week 3+ F
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Week 4+ G
Illustration with an original Spalla exercise: here, one new note per step. Not the course calendar.
NEW THIS WEEK
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New discovery
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Pickup
The music starts with one or more notes before the first strong beat. Those notes lead in and push the phrase forward.
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Fermata
This symbol over a note asks you to hold it longer than written. The regular pulse pauses for a moment, then the music carries on.
Before you play, SPALLA prepares the musician.
- BREATHE
- SING
- BLOW
- PLAY
- TUNE
This is where study begins.
Two phones showing the SPALLA Junior study screen: the header with the tuner and the metronome, the score, and the bottom bar with the record button and the fingerings switch.
- Sing: on the first phone, a blue guide bar travels along the score from left to right.
- Blow: on the second phone, at the same time, a green guide bar travels along the same score.
- Play: the second phone grows to the centre, the fingerings switch on and a red cursor travels along the score to the beat of the metronome.
- Tune: the tuner needle finds the centre and the score responds to the sound; the first closed bar lights up orange (out of tune) and the next ones green (in tune).
- Excellent: right on the score the word “Excellent” appears and, after it, three stars; the score disappears and only the three stars remain on the dark background.
Stars, rewards and the chest
- Three stars shine.
- The stars turn into several rewards at once, among them the First great star, the First session, the Glowing metronome, the Music box and the French horn.
- Every reward is kept in the chest.
From Ignis's room to your recordings, in three moments.
- Ignis, the dragon of SPALLA Junior, sits in his room.
- The camera moves through the room until it reaches the piano.
- The camera moves in on the sheet music on the piano and My recordings appears: what you have played, as video and as audio, so you can hear your progress.
This is Ignis's room.
Hear
your progress.
- A SPALLA Junior screen, in landscape: the greeting “HI, OLIVER!”, the week with the days already studied, today’s Ignis story with its cover and the Play button.
- The screen changes story as the days go by: “The echo came back from another tree”, “An ice cave that glows blue” and “Ignis flies in a hot air balloon”.
- Each day adds a studied day to the week and brings a new story.
Ignis's stories
There is more to discover.
You don’t practice more. You practice with purpose.
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