New Age Piano Techniques: Creative and Easy!
Every style of piano playing has its share of tricks and techniques. New Age piano is no different. The New Age piano style has 3 main techniques that are used over and over. These are the ostinato technique, the crossover technique or arpeggio, and the broken chord technique.
The Ostinato technique - A Repeating Pattern
You’ve probably heard this technique numerous times and may or may not have knows what it was. Ostinato simply means repeating pattern or obstinate pattern and that’s exactly what it is. For example, in New Age pianist George Winston’s piece “Rain,” we have a left-hand pattern that uses over an octave of the keyboard to create a beautiful aural background over which a melody is improvised.
This technique
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The Crossover Technique - Arpeggios Up and Down
This technique is used everywhere in New Age piano and elsewhere. Usually spanning an octave or more, the pianist uses the left hand
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The author’s lesson piece “Morning Mist” uses a few chords along with the crossover technique as well. First you learn how to play the left-hand crossover, then you slowly add in a melody of your own. Creative? Yes! And easy as well!
The Broken Chord Technique - Both
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Here we have a technique that sounds a lot more complicated than it really is. Both hands are used to create music with. The hands are placed on a chord and that chord is broken up.
For instance, the lesson “Reflections in Water” uses broken chord technique along with open position chords to create a very nice “New Age” sound! Beginners who listen to this piece won’t have a clue as to how it’s accomplished but once you learn how to play the open position chord, insight will follow and you’ll begin to see just how easy creating in the New Age style can be!
Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He
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