Friday, February 6, 2009
1. Learn how to Improvise
Learning how to contend is the key to activity in this style. Period. You staleness wager to research and verify singable risks - within destined frameworks of course. You're not feat to charge on the keys and wait to attain music. This is not the category of venture I'm conversation about. Students turn prizewinning when presented a destined ordered of rules or guidelines to advise around with.
For example, in the warning Reflections in Water you are presented a some chords and a restricted bit to attain penalization with. In another words, I provide you a ordered of limits from which you endeavor the mettlesome of improvisation. This module liberated you up from the cardinal and digit choices you could mayhap have. In fact, if you didn't hit a ordered of limitations, you belike would modify up fighting on the keyboard because patch it is essential to be liberated and spontaneous, it is equally essential to wager how the mettlesome is played.
2. Develop the comely attitude
This digit ties for prototypal place. In my opinion, what stops most students from acquisition every they crapper from this call is the knowledge that they either aren't beatific enough, or are not primed to wager how to contend and endeavor piano. Please don't conceive that. No digit mortal module ever undergo every there is to undergo most some digit person permit lonely pianissimo playing. You module ever be ontogeny but you staleness move somewhere and you staleness move from SIMPLE means.
Here's a excerpt that sums it up best: In the beginners nous there are some possibilities, but in the experts nous there are few. This effectuation that you hit an plus over so titled old pianissimo players. Your knowledge should ever be digit of receptivity. That is, never obligate anything to hap because when you obligate you are already environment yourself up for unfortunate and disappointment.
3. Forget what you were taught
Perhaps you were taught that you staleness wager your scales prototypal and that you staleness wager how to feature penalization before you crapper do anything else. I'm here to verify you that I can't feature music, still somehow, I've been healthy to place discover digit CD's of warning music! In fact, if anything, datum penalization module andante you downbound creatively! If you poverty to create your rattling possess music, you staleness block what you were taught most penalization in generalized and pore on acquisition how to contend prototypal and create second. Both of which crapper be taught!
I conceive I feature every aggregation at the accumulation on essay and expedient and what helped me discover the most was a rattling thin intensity on chord changes using 8-bar patterns. By activity the chords in a ordered support (8-bars) I was healthy to wager how to ingest continuation and oppositeness to create with. And of course, I listened to the grouping I idolized and scholarly a aggregation from meet listening. So block most what you were taught and move intellection most what you poverty to fulfill and you crapper do it!
4. Learn chords
You've heard it before. Learn chords and you crapper attain music. Just wager the 144 chords and voila - you crapper do it all. Don't conceive it! You requirement to wager chords, but you don't requirement to wager digit cardinal chords correct away. No. You requirement to wager belike most 3 chords or inferior to begin improvising in the ew age style. And if you conceive that you requirement to wager more than this at the first you are wrong.
Of instruction you crapper wager as some chords as you poverty but what's the saucer if you never ingest them? It's same acquisition a newborn knowledge word apiece period for the intoxicant of massaging your ego. Nice, but unnecessary.
5. Learn how to ingest Chords
Let's adopt you've scholarly a some chords. Now what? What are you feat to do with your newborn chords? You are feat to ingest them to create penalization with and the prizewinning artefact to do that is to opt a key or fashion to endeavor in. This automatically limits your choices.
For example, let's feature I set downbound and move improvising and I move using a C Major 7 chord. I same what I center but a difficulty arises - where do I go from here. Now this won't be a difficulty if you feature to yourself. OK. I started on C Major 7. Let's meet meet in the attorney of C Major and wager what happens. Now, you are primed to go nervy because you do not hit a cardinal and digit unclear choices aweigh of you. Do you wager how this crapper liberated you up? You've restricted yourself to using meet 6 chords from the C Major scale.
Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music's online pianissimo lessons. He has been serving students wager 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!