The short answer: pretty much any musician!
Partimenti can help long serving or brand new teachers, consummate or aspiring performers, experienced or inexperienced composers, improvisers, conductors, pianists, church musicians, pianists, cellists, trumpet players, instrumentalists of all stripes, ensemble and solo singers, let’s break it down to see just a few of the benefits different kinds of musicians will gain from working with partimenti.
Composers
- gain an intuitive sense of harmony
- learn to trust your musical ideas
- compose faster and more efficiently
Improvisors
- be able to create successful harmonic paths
- memorize music instantly
- create a huge variety of melodies, textures, and patterns
Conductors
- gain a greater sense of the global harmonic movement in a score
- recognize harmonic and contrapuntal patterns in a score
- hear how parts or lines fit into the larger whole of the piece
- grow your ears so you never miss any detail in rehearsal
Teachers
- grow your own musicianship through composition and improvisation
- give your students tools to be creative with music
- help your students to hear and recognize harmonic patterns that are all over their music
Pianists
- be able to learn music more efficiently
- memorize music faster with way less stress and anxiety
- let your ears guide your fingers
Church Musicians
- learn to improvise and spontaneously compose music for preludes and postludes
- quickly and efficiently compose quality service music
- be able to arrange hymns, anthems and service music for your particular resources
Cellists, Trumpet Players, Instrumentalists of All Stripes, Ensemble and Solo Singers
- understand your part within the context of the whole piece
- learn to understand the whole score
- let your ears guide your playing
- be more aware of other players lines and parts