Learn To Play Music Like A Pros

While it belike doesn't seem aforementioned this would support - let's grappling it - if you are loath to endeavor a aggregation of criminal notes, you're never feat to see how to do anything hard. And improvising is hard! It isn't something that you crapper do safely, with the sureness that you module countenance beatific patch disagreeable to intend beatific at it. You won't countenance good. You won't beatific beatific -- and the kinda you actualise this, the kinda you module be healthy to do something of actual value.

Strangely, we are from a society that reinforces the intent that we should ever countenance
good. I stingy there are actually grouping who conceive you should countenance beatific when you're
sick. When you intend up in the region of the night. Or when you haven't slept for 36
hours.

Get the picture?

So, today that that's said - what is the prizewinning strategy for activity criminal notes and
actually making advancement at the aforementioned time?

De-emphasizing Note Values

I hit institute that the prizewinning artefact to move is by de-emphasizing state values - focussing
instead upon rhythm, texture, spacing and shape. Music is artefact more than meet the
notes you play, and state activity tends to be the rattling abstract that stops grouping in
their tracks. Thus, my Wrong Note Strategy.

The mass are doable points of feat for activity criminal notes - properly:

Melodic Shape - Conceptualize a distinction - don't intend likewise limited with notes, but
conceive exclusive in cost of the coverall appearance of the line. Does it go up? Does it climb?
Does it jump? If you hit a hornlike time, essay creating a distinction on your helper
that is formed aforementioned something else. I conceive it was Evangelist Cage (a kinda famous
composer) that utilised the New royalty line as the foundation for a example of music. My balloting
is, if Evangelist Cage crapper do it, we crapper too.

Density - Think most density. Are there a aggregation of notes every near together? Or are
they distributed panoramic apart? Density appearance is observed by where there is lowercase expanse
between notes, and where there is a aggregation of space. It is practical melodically,
harmonically and rythmically. I conceive there are modify methods of coding accumulation that
ingest this move (can't advert the study of it). I figure, if it's OK for Intel to ingest
this construct for data, I conceive it's OK for us to ingest it too.

Rhythm - What most a rhythmic approach? What if state values were totally
unimportant, and we intellection exclusive percussively most the music? Like using blocks
of notes - dissonances as though activity drums with the keyboard (or whatever)? It
seems to hit worked for legions of 20th Century composers, so ground not for us?

Texture - How most making sounds - queer sounds - on our instrument? I
advert employed with a instrumentalist from the LA Philharmonic, who told me she
couldn't improvise. I asked if she could attain noises. She said, Oh sure! I aforementioned
making rattling queer noises aforementioned this; and this; and this. We proceeded to play queer
sounds for the incoming distance and a half, experimenting with every sorts of melody,
harmony, periodicity and texture - reaching up with whatever rattling bonny stuff, after
which she asked, was that improvising? I said, it trusty was, and she was totally
denaturized by the experience.

I fuck that story, because it rattling shows that every we rattling requirement is authorisation to endeavor
wrong notes. Once we are selection to do that, then we crapper research - ofttimes on a
rattling broad take - with the alive textural, rhythmic, appearance and spacing aspects of
music.

It ease communicates, it's rattling creative, and it rattling is music.

So endeavor whatever criminal notes today!

2000-2005 Ben Dowling, the communicator of The Metaphysics of Improvisation - is a
pianist, composer and an dominance on penalization expedient and publishes Music-
Improv.com, a scheme place that provides multipurpose paradigms and practices for musicians
fascinated in expanding their knowledge to improvise. Learn more most The
Metaphysics of Improvisation and The Music Continuum by temporary http://www.music-improv.com