Piano Right From the Start:: “Learning to Play What You Feel!”
Imagine being able to sit down at your piano, place your hands on the keyboard, and just play! Many piano students think the ability to do this requires years of study. They couldn’t be more wrong!
Learning to play what you feel does not require extensive knowledge of harmony or theory. All that is required is the ability to do two things:
1. Believe that you know enough
2. Believe that you’re good enough
Thousands of classically trained pianists are able to play Rachmaninoff and Bach but are unable to express themselves poetically at the keyboard. Why? Because of the above 2 beliefs! It’s not enough to have mastered piano technique.
For example, many would be writers understand how to construct a compelling plot and
...area where great discoveries are made by making mistakes!Take improvisation for example. We sit at our piano or keyboard without any thought of what is to come. Our fingers touch a certain chord that calls to us and we are ...
The same goes for music and any other art. I can’t tell you how many times I repeated the above 2 statements to myself because I really wanted to get past my fear of being able to create music at the piano. I wanted to play what I felt at any given time - to be able to improvise. But this was nearly impossible as long as there was some voice in me that said I just wasn’t good enough. And believe me, we ALL have these voices
...the tracks I didn't like so much but then I could have gotten stuck in a perfectionist's rut.No, I decided that a "wrong" note here and there wouldn't kill what was heard and might even make it sound more authentic. ...
Eventually, I got past the need to seek other’s approval and realized that I was more important than the music. I learned that I already knew more than enough to play the piano. I also came to believe I was good enough and that no one person will every know it all or be a “perfect” player.
Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the internet. Stop by now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html for a FREE piano lesson!
...chord.Another example of frequently used chord progressions is the ii-V-I sequence. This progressions is very popular in jazz music. In the key of C, you would play a D minor chord, followed by a G major chord, and end on ...