Registration
- Make creative and musically expressive choices by:
- choosing suitable registration with stylistic awareness, including programming and using registration memories where the instrument allows
- adjusting or reprogramming the instrument’s resources as appropriate, e.g. digital effects, reprogramming dual voices where the instrument allows
Explain and demonstrate the use of registration memories as a quick and effective way of accessing more complex changes of registration. Ask learners to practise storing a series of four registrations, using one auto-accompaniment but with subtle alterations.
Learners should be encouraged to learn about the technological aspects of using their instruments by studying the accompanying manual. Where necessary, time should be spent explaining this to them, ensuring that they understand the language and develop the ability to process the information.
Teach learners to store their work.
Encourage learners to explore alternatives to the pre-set dual-voice settings, adjusting volume levels, octave settings and pan effects on both the main and dual voice. Discuss the musical effects of different combinations of sounds and save the most satisfying.
Show learners how to make changes to the ‘orchestration’ of the auto-accompaniment, including adding and removing parts, altering voicings within the orchestration and remixing. Invite them to experiment.
Where an auto-accompaniment is used within an ensemble it may be necessary to reduce the orchestration in order to achieve clarity of texture.
Ask learners to experiment by copying the exact orchestration setting across from one style to a completely different one. Discuss the extent to which this alters the effect of the music.
Ask learners to devise their own intros and endings to pieces by building up and phasing in or out the orchestration as appropriate.
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