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Caveat
Be careful regarding what you may find
on the internet particularly YouTube; there are some contributors there
who have uploaded enthusiastic playing of hymns yet their playing
renders the hymn virtually unsingable - usually for the following
reasons:
- Over-legato playing so the rhythm is
lost,
- Shortening rests and long held notes
to less (sometimes far less) than their written value,
- Very long pauses at the end of
verses,
- Undefined silent breaks between
verses,
- Simply getting the music wrong,
- Playing far too loud throughout.
Look at these videos and listen
carefully and imagine that you are trying to sing the hymn concerned.
A good set of hymn videos has been
presented by Melanie Plumley on YouTube. These don't always stick
to maintaining the correct pulse, sadly.
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