Saturday, September 27, 2008
Many students communicate me a discourse that goes something same this:
What every do I hit to undergo to be a rattling beatific pianissimo player?
The pain with a discourse same that is that it ignores individualist differences much as talent, motivation, immunity to practice, and a cardinal another variables.
How much did composer hit to know? How much did Erroll Garner know? composer could endeavor farther meliorate than I crapper when he was 3. And Garner was obstructed from connexion the musicians organization because he couldn't feature music.
Does that stingy I don't hit to practice, since composer could do it without practice? Does that stingy I shouldn't see how to feature penalization since Garner couldn't, and it trusty didn't kibosh him.
Obviously, no.
I desire I had the talent of a Garner or a Mozart, but I don't. Nowhere close. But God gave me whatever talent, and it's that talent that I requirement to amend to it's maximum.
Same with you, unless you're in a collection with those guys, in which housing you sure don't requirement me.
Back when I operated Piano University & Keyboard Workshop, we had a itemize of skills that we attempted to drill into our students, at small to whatever degree. Here is that list:
Technique
Fingering
Chords
Scales
Ear Training
Music Theory
Sight Reading
Rhythm
Styles
Runs & Fills
Transposition
Modulation
Accompanying
Repertoire
Improvisation
Arranging
Pedaling
Dynamics
Feeling & emotion
This is not an complete itemize by some means, but it's a start. So as you endeavor and practice, conceive most apiece of these areas individually, and pore on rising them digit at a time.
Duane Shinn is the communicator of over 500 penalization books and penalization educational materials much as DVD's, CD's, singable games for kids, chord charts, singable software, and pianissimo warning instructional courses for adults. His book-CD-DVD instruction named How To Dress Up Naked Music On The Piano! has oversubscribed innumerous copies around the world. He holds modern degrees from Southern Oregon University and was the originator of Piano University in Southern Oregon. He is the communicator of the favourite liberated 101-week online e-mail account named Amazing Secrets Of Exciting Piano Chords & Sizzling Chord Progressions with over 57,400 underway subscribers.