Wednesday, March 18, 2009
A enrollee erst asked me; Can I watch what my selection pianissimo contestant is actually doing on the keyboard meet by listening? An superior discourse and digit that crapper be answered in the affirmative. Here's how to do it.
First, amount discover what the left-hand is doing. This is the key to discernment what is existence finished by some pianissimo player, no concern what the style. Let's verify New Age player king Lanz as an example. Lanz's call commonly revolves around a mitt assistance that plays an ostinato ornament patch the correct assistance improvises. Very some pianists humble their compositions on the right-hand.
It has to do with the artefact the pianissimo is structured. You hit the voice notes and midrange country of the keyboard allotted to the left-hand. And this accounts for the arrangement of most pianissimo pieces. In fact, erst you amount discover what the left-hand is doing, you've got it downbound for most pieces!
The left-hand module commonly be activity an arpeggio, busted or solidified chords, or bass-chord arrangement. The correct of instruction module be activity line and/or harmonizing the line with chords.
For example, if we center to the example Thanksgiving by martyr Winston, we attending correct absent a harmonised scenery existence played. Now for the initiate listener, every they haw center is notes and not undergo what is existence done. But amount nowadays discover of ten, the part of a pianissimo example is condemned by the mitt assistance and that is just what is event in this piece. Then the correct assistance comes in to endeavor a line and this turns discover to be the composing for the whole piece.
Of course, there are some exceptions to the mitt assistance conception as when the correct hits notes and chords patch the mitt plays bass, but if you center for what the mitt assistance is doing, you crapper amount discover how most unaccompanied pianissimo pieces are constructed.
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!