Voicing

Hi, when playing chords and wanting to make one note louder than the others,its a bit tricky to understand-if playing lound essentially means going faster to the key, then how can all of the chord's notes can be played at the same time and yet making one note or two louder than the others if they need to be played faster than those in p? thank you

Brilliant question. Actually, the louder voiced chord tone does sound a microsecond sooner than the softer voices. This helps individuate it from the other voices even more. It's easier for you to hear it as an independent voice, and your ear fails to pick up on the fact that it actually sounded a split-second before the others. AFF

in your second edition book you wrote about the ulnar orientation-if i understood correctly,does that mean that in order to bring the top note out the structural function of the forearm behind the fifth finger helps to produce a bigger sound? so what happens if there is for instance a c major chord and i want to bring out the e and g notes out-the forearm moves to the outside as well? -i noticed than when needed to play a louder note like in voicing the muscle tonus automatically gets higher than usual ,before the note is actually played. why is that? i noiced it doesnt happen in octave playing.. thank a lot

I don't really understand the first question, and the second one is self-evident. AFF

about the second question -a bit difficult to explain,but in one of the videos a kid was playing Chopin Polonaise and the instruction was to play with a hand position similar to the bird bick to get a certain tone,so my lack of understanding with that hand position-is that done with a high muscle tonus to get a certain sound like in Chopin's Polonaise,is the different muscle tone in the hand affects the sound (difference between f and p) -about the second question-why is it that when the fifth finger is lining up with the ulnar bone-the fifth finger's note is sounding more,in a chord or an octave? thank you-hope i explained it right...

But the answers are obvious! Making a bird beak gives you higher muscle tone, very useful both for forte and piano playing because it gives you more control and stops the insidious falling that ruins most piano tone. When bones line up, the sound has to be better, because the kinetic forces are transmitted cleanly through the skeletal structure instead of being weakened by unaligned bones. AFF