Q. Yeah, i was just having fun with a tune by ear, do you think my improvising is any good? Anything that I should certainly improve on? I don't have a teacher so any critical criticism would be good unless of course you just love it lol. Note I was improvising on the spot, it wasn't at all planned or strategized .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsmgISJu7rM
Thanks (:
A. Yes, very good. You're at an awkward stage, but you have potential, so keep it up. Did I hear a bit of Black Bird in there? Keep learning new songs and styles to enlarge your palette, especially jazz. Sounds like good right hand technique. You might want to avoid root position triads in the left hand. They tend to sound muddy when they're too low, and are reminiscent of beginner's piano music. Try spreading your left hand chords out, for example, by placing the third above the 5th. That is, C2, G2 and E3, (or 2nd C below middle C, 2nd G below middle C, and 1st E below middle C.) It's OK that you can't play it all at once. Either roll it, use the sustain pedal, or sneak in the E with your right hand. This chord sounds so much more 'pro' than a simple CEG chord. I especially dislike the 2nd inversion of a 5 7 chord, i.e. while in the key of C, the chord BFG. It definitely is a beginner's chord.
Work for cohesiveness in your right hand ad lib's, rather than a bunch of nice licks strung together. How would you sing it? Any instrument has to 'sing', or it sounds like doodling.
Any way, it sounds like you have talent and a good ear, so keep having fun.
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Q. So I'm learning a song on piano without a teacher to help me. the chords are unbelievable confusing!!!!!!!! Will someone please give me the notes to the following chords: Dsus,Gsus,C/E,D/F#,G2,Em7,Am/C,Bm/D,Esus, F#m,D/E,Dm/F,Em/g, and D6 please give them in order and accurately according to actual knowledge. Please help!!!!
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'my old man' in chorus at 'dont dilly dally on the way' looks impossible as F2 is held and up to a C3 played?
Q. The handbook indicates that my keyboard has 'sostenuto' which looks as though it might solve this problem (I'd need to buy and plug in a footswitch though). I think the switch would enable me to sustain the offending right hand F root chord and leave my right hand free to reach the high C (without sustain). I'm not to familiar with the mechanical piano - would a piano sostenuto pedal do this anyway, making this bit of old song play as written? Although dont they usually put 'Ped' if you have to do this?
A. The sostenuto pedal pedal on an acoustic piano holds notes that you have pressed and held while engaging the pedal. The middle pedal of many upright acoustic pianos engages a mute rail rather than a sostenuto. Some pianos, both upright and grand, operate a bass sustain that lifts the dampers from the strings below the treble break.
Unless you're noting the octaves wrong, F2 and C3 are easily reached; a fifth apart (F2 G2 A3 B3 C3) If there is greater interval (C4 - middle C) you might be able to pull that key with the thumb of the right hand. Or you could just use the sustain pedal (unless the rest of the piece is written to be staccato.
Other than that, yeah, get a stostenuto pedal for your piano. Though you'll get much more use out of it as a una corda.
... I see I need to peddle some dictionaries to the answer gang.
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