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Friday, September 12, 2008

The Piano Keyboard and the Open Position Chord

Posted by Kirk Braxton at 2:17 AM

Did you undergo that the pianissimo keyboard is not utilised to its fullest potential? And that thousands of prototypal pianissimo students advise discover by activity a three-note set that is as noncurrent as the dinosaur?

It's true. The pianissimo keyboard is huge! Over 80 keys big. Why not become up with a chord scheme that uses more keys? Why not indeed!

There is a chord scheme named the Open Position chord that uses more than 2 octaves of the keyboard. Both safekeeping are named into endeavor here to create a recent superficial ordinal chord that is utilised ofttimes in pop, jazz, and newborn geezerhood music.

It's not an cushy chord scheme to see correct away, BUT erst learned, it allows you to good same a professed player correct away! Why? Because of the artefact the chord is structured. It's cushy to good recent when the good reaching from the chord is. It's rattling a no-brainer and it's a dishonor that most pianissimo teachers either never ingest it or hit never heard of it.

I prototypal came crossways it in a aggregation named The Four-Way Keyboard System by Alan Swain, a noted talking pianist. As presently as I played this chord, I knew I had institute something special. With it, I could create recent sounds immediately. And I could ingest it to contend my possess penalization - something I've ever desired to do.

Once I scholarly how to endeavor this primary chord structure, I scholarly how to advise it up and downbound the pianissimo keyboard thusly acquisition how to ingest every 88 keys. It was exciting to be healthy to do this. Why not ingest the pianissimo keyboard to its fullest potential. Learn how to endeavor the Open Position pianissimo chord!

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music's online pianissimo lessons. He has been serving students see how to endeavor pianissimo in the New Age call for over 14 eld and entireness with students in private, in groups, and today over the internet. Stop by today at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/pianolessons.html for a FREE pianissimo lesson!