Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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What is natural piano playing? The sort of improvisation that can be done in any style is sometimes referred to as 'natural' piano playing. Many people go into their piano journey desiring to play in this way, the sort of “maybe she's born with it” of piano instead of makeup.
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According to most experts, the answer to this question is yes, it is a gift. Indeed, playing by ear is an innate talent that not everyone has but...
Read More »Brigitte agreed to teach me what she knew about ‘comping’ from a chord sheet and I practised a lot. I learned how songs were built in order to understand how to make my own songs up on the fly, I learned how to gradually deposit the little patterns I learned from the songs I played into a ‘riff-bank’, and I learned how to take those riffs and turn them inside out and upside down into every possible iteration to make even more riffs! Then I was able to withdraw a riff at any time to use in my songwriting, improvisation, ‘comping and free-playing time! I used these very techniques I’m about to share with you, but at the time I didn’t know I was doing it - it was just discovery born out of a desperation to imitate the pianists I loved. It took me years to build up my riff-bank and only when I became an online piano tutor did I really look at what I’d done and put together this roadmap from my experience! This roadmap should save you time and frustration going down roads that will not lead you to this goal. If becoming a natural piano player is your goal, you need to be purposefully striving toward it from this point onward. The difference between an average pianist and a natural one is.. Paying attention. You need to pay attention to what you play from now on. To analyse and understand the songs you hear and play so that you can learn how music works - and what goes with what. So how do we pay attention to the songs we play and hear? We BURP!
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