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One of the cool things with a theramin is that the human is a part of the instrument. Only you as you were in that moment will ever make the exact sound that you did.
I'm dying. The comment above you said its the adhd national anthem. I have adhd and play the trombone so you 2 are honestly making me think about my life 😂
My cat became insane after hearing this. Looking at me with big eyes and running here and there. This music called out some different energy in her 😂😂😂😂
A good rule of thumb for a theramin is to hold a flat hand at it and find a real note. Then figure out 8 hand positions that give you an octive without moving your arm (only wrist and hand). It's not a surefire way to do it but it's definitely a lot easier than going ham and trying to judge distance by eye all the time.
I feel like the easiest instrument to equate it to is the trombone because the slide motion looks similar to the antenna pitch thing. Then you just gotta learn the volume control
Most elite theraminists, including the instrument's inventor Leon Theremin himself, start off playing orchestral strings. What pedagogy there is for the theramin is based on developing muscle memory around positions and shifting between them, akin to the Simandl method for the double bass. The complications arise because unlike on a string instrument there is no visual or tactile frame of reference: string players will often use the nut or the upper bout of the instrument to help them get into the tight position, but thereminists have no such luxury. It's the ultimate fretless instrument. The volume control also complicates things more than you'd think: the theramin is one of the few instruments where you actively have to "play" the rests with your left hand over the volume antena rather than simply having the rests happening naturaly by not playing notes. One of the hardest things to do on the theramin is strings of sharp staccatos like those in the the Queen of the Night aria.
@@tjenadonn6158 Damn, i didn't think about that but holy shit playing fast staccatos must be pain on this. Especially if you introduce a lot of octave shifts in the mix.
@@Dice-Z Some theremins, particularly "beginner" models, do away with the volume antenna, instead having only a pitch antenna with the volume being controlled with a swell pedal akin to what you'd find on console steel or pedal steel guitar. These theoretically make staccatos easier, but ultimately just shift the problem of coordinating two hands to one of coordinating a hand and a foot. They also tend to be rejected by theremin aficionados, who tend to take a very "throw them in the deep end and see if they swim" approach to people learning the instrument. We're talking about the first entirely electronic instrument ever invented, and just like it took a lot of iteration to go from the first car ever invented to get to something anyone could get behind the wheel and drive there's a reason why it took decades to get from this to user friendly-ish electronic instruments that any studio or live musician could pick up and play like the MiniMoog and the ARP Odyssey.
The theremin was invented ib Soviet Russia by Leo Theremin, a retired violinist learned to play it after an injury ended her ability to use a violin. They then toured the USA to show off the instrument, while covertly acting as spies. You can still find some of the recordings of her performances online; it actually sounds beautiful when played correctly; because it is hands-free, it requires pitch-perfect hearing, tons of classical training, or both.
Those are so expensive though, unless you get really lucky in the second hand market its probably going to be a grand even if you get a cheaper model, but all the cheaper ones seem to have issues with the register key. It's a real shame I don't have a grand let alone 10 for a good one, cos bass clarinet was so fun to play.
I remember seeing a video about theremin years ago. The woman playing it has predetermined hand positions and to play in tune. It kind of looks like her own sign language
There's a step system you can do with different hand positions and there's ways to tweak the distance of the pitch to fit your hand size so that the steps in notes are equal.
