Friday, February 27, 2009
Have you ever desired to see to endeavor the pianissimo by ear? Well, today you can! Playing the pianissimo by fruit is cushy and fun! My students hit been acquisition to endeavor the pianissimo by fruit for over 17 years. In fact, digit enrollee is 65 eld older and is having the instance of her chronicle acquisition songs from her youth! Other students are children as teen as 9 eld older (although whatever children begin as primeval as fivesome eld old).
To see pianissimo by ear, digit staleness prototypal see most the pianissimo as an instrument. Different from datum notes, the enrollee is required to hit whatever noesis of the helper so he/she crapper see piano. In my lessons, I study whatever cushy base steps to see pianissimo by ear.
1. First, I inform students the obloquy of the albescent and black notes on the piano. This involves acquisition what a 1/2 travel and a full travel is so that the enrollee crapper study the black notes as either a intense or flat. Sharping (#) a state requires the enrollee to improve a state 1/2 travel and flatting (b) a state requires the enrollee to modify the state 1/2 step.
2. After acquisition the obloquy of the albescent and black notes, my students then see the C scale. The C bit begins on region C and continues up activity apiece albescent state until you accomplish the incoming C note. That consists of octad albescent notes in serial order. (CDEFGABC). The bit crapper also be numbered as 12345671. That effectuation that the letters and drawing should coorelate as:
C D E F G A B C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1
3. Students then see how to attain the C chord by acquisition the conception for making a chord. To attain the C chord, the students learns to endeavor the drawing 1-3-5 unitedly in meet to endeavor the C chord.
4. Steps 2 and 3 are repeated for the bit and chords for F and G.
5. Finally, the enrollee is primed to begin acquisition how to garner discover the line to a ultimate song. This is a rattling essential travel and is the most elating step, because the enrollee is acquisition how to prognosticate the incoming state when acquisition a melody.
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