Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Practice with a singer on piano — much as it is often done on guitar like strumming — so, you will follow the singers lead and not: Need to play the notes of the “melody” while the singer is voicing them, Or set the “tempo” as the soloist may have slow and fast parts for emphasis, etc.
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Read More »Practice with a singer on piano — much as it is often done on guitar like strumming — so, you will follow the singers lead and not: Need to play the notes of the “melody” while the singer is voicing them, Or set the “tempo” as the soloist may have slow and fast parts for emphasis, etc. Or decide the “rhythm” if the singer has an interpretation, So, you do not decide the “style”… Don’t do the singer’s job. 2 Play non-obnoxiously (not too loudly) as the basic technique. Think about accompanying in a group with a guitar player who can lightly strum chords while the drummer may use brushes or soft drumming style, etc. but of course some singers, as an alternative, may have a style where the instruments are pretty loud… 3 Lighten up as a piano accompanist and even just use one hand to play the rhythm while chording so that it is not like “clump, clump…” explained in detail below. Using the piano for accompanying will often involve both hands for turn around parts, left hand or right hand chording variations, ideas like the Circle of Fifths, and adapting to what your soloist does by recognizing the style and responding to the tempo, rhythm and style by ear. You probably (but not necessarily) need to do an introduction with both hands and do an ending. 4 Use one hand to accompany on the piano. Sure there is more to learn to be a good piano accompanist. See chords in “Tips” below. It’s not just playing chords with one hand lightly — mostly using 3 tones called triad chords (see Chords, and Picturing the “Shapes of Chords” On Your Fingers and Hands — in the “Tips” section below) 5 Learn to break the chord into arpeggio (ar-pe-szhe-o), which means sounding of the notes of a chord in succession [perhaps rapidly] instead of simultaneously. Don’t hit the whole chord at once. 6 Practice rolling the notes by rocking or swaying your hand and fingers: going through each chord to play the notes separately. You don’t make the chords as clumping sounds. 7 Think of a mental picture of the fingers as forming the same “shape” of each three note chord like a 3 pronged fork or tripod and
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