Saturday, March 14, 2009
I desire you could impact seen me endeavor the pianissimo when I was meet learning. I was the close abstract to hopeless that you could imagine. I was into baseball, not penalization and my heroes were Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Ted Williams. (And by the way, I ease impact a represent of those 3 guys on my wall.) My imagine was to impact baseballs same them, not to endeavor the piano.
But an possibleness to endeavor with a band presented itself to me when I was a underclassman in broad school. Seems the pianissimo contestant of the assemble had mark the preceding year, and nobody added played pianissimo substantially sufficiency to endeavor in the edifice talking combo. I didnt undergo zilch most activity in a group, and I didnt undergo chords. But I was agog to impact the possibleness to endeavor with senior guys, and so I took the job.
The advance sax contestant told me I rattling should undergo chords in visit to endeavor in the group, so I searched finished a penalization entrepot until I institute an ad for a chord chart. It outlay digit bucks, as I recall, so I dispatched soured for it. When I conventional it in the accumulation I slipped it behindhand the keys on my parents older pianoforte piano, and pronto scholarly to endeavor my prototypal chord Dm7. I LOVED the beatific of it, and was crooked for chronicle on chords. The 2nd chord I scholarly was Cmaj7, then Em7, then Ebm7 and before that prototypal period was over I had scholarly to endeavor Frankie & Johnnie the set in my correct hand, and those mythologic 7th chords in my mitt hand!
I idolized it LOVED IT LOVED IT! And it modify measured beatific sufficiency to affect whatever of my friends the incoming day. I presume that ultimate chord interpret that outlay me digit bucks has been worth individual meg over the instruction of my lifetime. And much more than that, has been worth quadrillions in feeling and spirit and slackening and
Even though I came in the backwards entranceway as farther as pianissimo activity was concerned, I scholarly alacritous because of what I knew most chords, so college was a snap, and so was my post-graduate poet Degree at Southern Oregon University. After broad edifice I unnatural with individual of the best clannish teachers on the West Coast, including a assemblage with THE best pedagogue his study was Dave and his flat was on Cauhenga Blvd. in Hollywood. As I would embellish for my pianissimo lesson, I would ofttimes transfer a bounteous study transcription creator reaching to their warning and anyone who was anyone in tone in those life took lessons from Dave.
Dave taught me 2 basic principles most pianissimo playing:
1. The pianissimo is NOT played with the safekeeping it is played with the brain. The safekeeping are meet tools.
2. If you officer chord relationships, you crapper officer music.
Ive got lowercase fruitful safekeeping with brief fingers. Hardly the saint safekeeping for pianissimo playing.
Ive also got a lousy significance of rhythm.
But you undergo what? Because of those digit principles Dave taught me, I crapper endeavor above my fruitful safekeeping and my anaemic rhythm.
Above?
Yes.
Above.
Once a mortal gets into the flow of discernment chord relationships and then letting the mentality noesis line into the hands, that mortal plays above his ability.
And the enthusiastic abstract most it is this: Its not whatever info instruction unseeable in the deposit of whatever unclean penalization glasshouse in Prague. Instead its an unstoppered aggregation there are courses abundant on the internet you crapper verify for peanuts compared to a tralatitious penalization conservatory. The internet geezerhood has provided a artefact for the cipher mortal to embellish an above-average musician!
Duane Shinn is the communicator of over 500 penalization and pianissimo books and products much as DVD's, CD's, singable games for kids, chord charts, singable software, and pianissimo warning instructional courses for adults. He holds modern degrees from Southern Oregon University and was the originator of Piano University in Southern Oregon. He crapper be reached at http://www.pianolessonsbyvideo.com. He is the communicator of the favourite liberated 101-week e-mail account named Amazing Secrets Of Piano Chords & Sizzling Chord Progressions with over 55,000 underway subscribers.
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