Q. At my school they have a program called Winter Drumline and it's like a drumline show whenever marching season is over, the pit and the battery are in it. I am in the pit for winter drumline this year and I am playing the synth (electric piano). I am new to playing piano and I am not used to treble clef, I play trombone and baritone so I am more familiar with the bass clef, although I can read treble, it takes me a minute. So the chords I have to play are kind of difficult, especially for someone learning to play. How can I learn these chords faster so I can learn the show faster? Please help and thanks in advance :)
A. Hey Good for you! I was in Winter drum line to0. I marched snare, and now I am a Jazz Piano major. A good way to memorize chords is to take one measure at a time very slowly. Ms=Measure
Example:
-Memorize Ms1.
-Memorize Ms2.
-Play Ms1&2 very slowly until you have that memorized.
-Memorize Ms3
-Play Ms1-3 very slowly unitl memorized
-Memorize Ms4.
-Play Mes1-4
Bump up the metronome 5 clicks and repeat for awhile.
Then do the same thing for measures 5-8
and then play measures 1-8 very slowly.
And continue learning the rest of the show like that.
That method is to learn specific chords that are written out like you said on a treble clef. But You should start to read chord charts too and chord symbols, so when you see a C-7 chord you know to C-Eb-G-Bb or when you see a G7 chord you know to play G-B-D-F.
If you don't know what 7 chords are, start to learn ALL your major and minor triad chords.
C=C-E-G
Db=Db-F-Ab
D=D-F#-A
etc.....
and then the next step would be to learn those major and minor triads in different 1st and second inversion, meaning the middle or last note is on the bottom.
First inversion chords:
C=E-G-C
Db=F-Ab-Db
D=F#-A-D
etc..
Second inversion chords:
C=G-C-E
Db=Ab-Db-F
D=A-D-F#
etc...
Piano is one of the most technical instruments to play because not only do you have to consider rhythm and harmony but also melody.
If your really interested in piano see if you can find a teacher that teaches both Jazz, and classical.
If your in the Detroit area I give lessons!
Good luck sorry for the rant!
Is this the basic piece of music theory that links the left hand and the right hand in piano playing?
Q. If you play notes with your left and simultaneously hit notes with your right hand, those notes should all be part of a harmonic set (i.e. the notes that are common to a chord or inversion, although they are usually at least an octave apart). Is this the basic rule of harmony for piano?
Now, can you give me a little more advice that could help me? I am learning, but playing piano is like playing multiple instruments at once.
A. No. Harmonization can be a little as two notes away. The best way to think of co-ordinating two separate melodies is to think of the left hand (secondary melody) is accompanying the right hand (main melody).
What are some good activities for an experienced piano player to learn to sight-read better?
Q. I've played piano for several years now and I'm in the process of learning some pretty advanced pieces, such as Frank Liszt's Etude III, La Campanella. However; I never learned how to properly sight-read. Although I can read music, it sometimes takes me several months or more to learn a 2-3 page piece, depending on the difficulty. My question is, are there any activities or exercises that would help me augment my ability to sight-read.
A. While notating your own music is an excellent suggestion (it gets the notion of notation 'inside' you,) the best way to better your sight reading is to practice sight-reading - that is a blazing flash of the obvious. Now, here is what you will need to do....
Assemble a stack of piano music, I estimate for you this should be at near beginner's level, since by your description your sight-reading is painfully at beginning level.
Choose music you can sight read at least at 50%, better 75% or higher, the tempo marked. I emphasize again,, this will be much simpler fare than the pieces you are working on.
Library access is essential - you need stacks of individual pieces or collections. I suggest the Bartok Microkosmos books I - III, the Schumann Op 68 "Album für die Jugend," and similar materials.
The process:
Read through, once only, a given piece. Keep proper time. Do not stop for mistakes - antithetical to traditional music performance practice -- but essential for forcing yourself to look ahead, which helps you develop a grasp on pattern recognition and spatial cognition of intervals, chords and their inversions.
Once read, there is an already established memory of what the music is, therefore, reading it through a second time is NOT 'cold sight-reading,' which is your goal. You Can Only Sight-read A Piece Once - after which it is not sight-reading!
This work is not meant to be 'comfortable.' You are forcing yourself to read, at sight, pushing through rather than stopping, naming, calculating, making marks on your score. You will find that your mental stamina, at first, will flag after only a brief time. It gets better, like all practice, the more you do.
Never repeat a read-through. Do go progressively through the stack of material, marking where you stopped so you can begin with the next piece.
I cannot enough emphasize your accepting that as a sight-reader you are (in my estimate as a professional and professional teacher) a raw beginner, and that you accept, without embarrassment, that you are a beginner ~ and then be a good beginner.
There are also basic note-speller exercise books, and flash cards. I suggest you look at those too, and see if you feel 'beyond' them or if they might also be a good exercise for you.
All of this tells me you are very likely working without a teacher. This also makes me think you are working on pieces far beyond your 'true' ability at present, and it is also entirely possible you are not reflexively familiar with all key signatures, which you must be.
Music, and playing of an instrument are a cumulative studies (there is a progression of difficulty on which to build.) No teacher would assign you any piece which takes several months knowing it takes you months to learn only two or three pages; this is antithetic to real progress, the path to which is well-understood and taught in piano pedagogy.
Please consider a truly qualified and reputable teacher: they are generally worth every penny you pay them.
Best regards.
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