Q. Mostly when it comes to chords and using both hands to play at a time. Has anybody else on here done this?? Its confusing trying to play with both hands when I'm so used to bowing out just a melody!
A. Cut yourself some slack. You didn't learn violin overnight and you won't learn piano overnight either. The concept of moving independently with the left and the right hand is a skill that your mind might be rebelling against temporarily. Try doing some of these exercises:
1. Opposite scales. Go up with the right hand and down with the left hand. It's fun and it eases your right hand into the idea that it is going to do something besides bowing while your left hand has all the fun.
2. Hold a chord with your left hand while you play melody with your right hand. then reverse the exercise.
3. Play the piece independently, right hand, left hand, and then together very slowly. Slow the tempo down to half and gradually increase the tempo until you are just a little above your target tempo. When you return to the origianl tempo you will be amazed t how easy it now is!
Above all, give yourself time. You need time to make new connections in the brain, time to learn new coordination in your hands, and time to assimilate the whole process. Don't judge yourself by a skill you have already mastered. Try to enjoy the process instead. They are both lovely instruments in their own way, and it takes time to get to know them.
How to transpose piano to B flat Clarinet music?
Q. I LOVE Taylor Swift, I purchased a song book that was for piano and it only had the right hand, so treble clef. I really want to play it on my clarinet and playing the piano music doesn't sound right! How do I transpose the music?
A. If you're playing it alone and not playing along to a recording - then you don't need to transpose it at all. It doesn't matter what key your clarinet is in if you're the only one playing.
If you want to transpose the part for clarinet then you play every pitch up one full step (or 2 half steps) to put the part in your key. Doing that will allow you to play along with a guitar or piano player reading the same part. So, every Bb you see in the music becomes a C, every C becomes D, every Eb becomes F - everything up one whole step. [this is the same way you determine which scale to play when asked for a concert scale]
A music book with only right hand (usually has chord symbols and lyrics) is called a "lead sheet" or "fake sheet". It's not really for "piano" at all - it's for whoever would like to play it. Rock, Jazz, and Folk musicians use those all the time.
Hint, it's easier for you to take all of the chords down one full step for a guitar player than to take every note up a full step for you. âªâ« Being able to do this at sight is a really good skill to have though. And, yes, this is indeed called "transposing" because clarinet is a transposing instrument. By raising every pitch a full step, the effective key signature is changed as well. But, that particularity is of no consequence to a player using this transposing method.
How to compose a scary tune on piano?
Q. What are the characteristics of a scary song? I've composed a couple of happy and on going songs, but now I want a scary song. I cant find any good scary songs that I could listen to and get an idea. Could someone give me a name of a good scary song on piano?
A. Use minor and diminished intervals. Use unexpected intervals. Use dissonance.
Understand that all art is based on expectations. In order to make music scary, you have to partly tap into those expectations, but also partly avoid them. People say use the minor scale (here I mean natural or harmonic minor), but the fact is that it doesn't sound scary to most people anymore. Instead, use weird scales that combine aspects of major and minor, like the Dorian mode - or even better, the Ukrainian minor. Use whole-tone, whole-half, and half-whole scales. Use non-chord tones and out-of-key chords.
I'm currently writing a score for a film and it's supposed to be creepy and deranged, so I'm basing it on like a familiar oom-pah-pah rhythm in the left hand with a strangely sonorous Ukrainian minor melody in the right hand, unexpected modulations, and a cadence that doesn't resolve properly. The combination is quite unsettling. :)
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