Q. i can't figure it out on the piano... :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCVIdQggZgo
A. This is horizontal music -- so you need to listen to the individual lines. Trying to hear this as a series of "chord progressions" will not bear you much fruit. It would be like trying to work out the chord progression of a Palestrina motet.
What I would do is write it down one voice at a time. (That would be a fun exercise) From there you might look at the vertical aspects of it and work out the chords -- which will still be meaningless.
Good luck
Glinzek
Help learning jazz piano?
Q. Looking for any websites or videos starting with the basics on up. Any advice would also be appreciated..
A. Jazz just means decorated. A christmas tree is a jazzed up tree. Theres a REALLY good book you can get that will take you through exercises, it explains EVERYTHING.
HANON-JAZZ
Hanon also make books for classical, blues and boogie (The blues book will help with the Jazz too!)
Click on my avatar and add me as a contact and then read through all the answers I have written for others-theres a HEAP of information there!)
In the mean time if your chord says C play CMajor7 instead, if it says Cm play Cminor7 instead.
Major = Major 7
minor = minor 7
If it already says CM7 then make it CM9 instead, and Cm7 would become Cm9 (And remember that any chord that goes ABOVE the number 7 HAS still got the 7 in it! Never take it out!)
The easiest and best way to turn a standard chord into Jazz is to add the next CHORD note on top of the standard chord. Try playing twinkle twinkle little star using CM7 FM7 and G9 instead of C F and G7 and it will instantly sound like jazz!
Heres a chord progression for you.
CM7 Dm7 CM7 Dm7 Em7 FM7 Em7 FM7 and repeat.
Play those chords in your left hand for a whole bar each and then with your right hand play ANY note from the C scale (You can add the occassional F# if you like) and you'll be sounding like a jazz professional in no time)
Once you've got that under control try playing your LH chords with a rhythm to it.
All the best
Cat
Practicing piano?
Q. I want to get good at the piano and i heard this guy on the radio play a very challenging song (one of those songs where there is no main motive or theme to it, just technical godliness)
I decided that it is very worth it and wanted to practice. But i dont know how to practice. My teachers dont believe in me (i dont blame them) and they never go over techinque with me.
Im oblivious to how or what im suppose to do when practicing.
All that you can fill me in about would help
A. Sounds to me like something is wrong with your teachers, not you.
CHOOSING A PIANO TEACHER
WHAT TO LOOK FOR
The most important concepts you want to learn from a piano teacher:
HOW TO PRACTICE. One of the questions teachers are constantly asked during interviews with new students is âHow much should I practice?â Itâs not how much you practice, but how well you practice that really counts. A student playing a piece of music over and over again making the same mistakes is hardly getting more than increased circulation in their fingers. The student who works over small sections, perfecting the sound of each phrase while studying their own physical motions, is improving their playing of a particular piece as well as improving their overall musicianship. Practicing is work, but if organized properly, it is enjoyable and soulfully rewarding.
PROFICIENT SIGHT READING (the strange term used to describe playing from printed music) is one of the most important skills a musician develops. First, it allows one to perform unknown music with a decent degree of fluency â normally, such a performance can be brought off proficiently if the music requires less than the technical level the pianist has attained. Second, it makes the work of learning a new piece immensely easier.
DEVELOP A WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF THEORY. Integrating theoretical concepts relevant to the music being studied is essential to musicianship. Scales and chords, which are the foundation of music theory, must not be taught as isolated exercises. Balanced teaching includes introducing each element of theory as it becomes needed to help a studentâs understanding of how music is put together.
Many âclassically trainedâ musicians are notorious for lacking an understanding of theory due to training not received. For the most part, they are typists who can only play from the printed page in front of them, maybe with feeling, but without any knowledge of why the notes sound like music. Ironically, many classical only piano teachers degrade rock and roll musicians, but pale by comparison when it comes to playing their instrument from a knowledge of theory rather than from reading sequences of notes.
MEMORIZING a piece of music and making it part of you is the goal almost every musician has towards a composition they love. The good teacher follows a comprehensive procedure for solid memorization: building a base of theory through scale recognition and chord progressions; teaching the steps and methods of memorizing; and allowing the student to experience how their ability to play by ear is developing as they bring the physical and intellectual elements together.
CONCEPTS THAT GO BEYOND WHAT IS ON THE PRINTED PAGE â there are many qualities about musical sounds that are too subtle to be communicated properly in symbols, or properties of music that composers or editors leave off the score. One example is the layering of simultaneous musical lines, so that the melody is louder than the low (quieter) and middle (quietest) voices. The growth of a musician is facilitated by teaching them that there is more to creating music than playing the right notes. Getting to the spiritual core of a music composition, whether it be classical,
jazz or popular, requires developing a range of physical and intellectual skills. One of the greatest joys of teaching is experiencing that first time a student changes from a player of notes into a musician. The hours of struggling finally pay off for them. They suddenly find, while playing a piece they have practiced diligently, that they hear the inside of the music.
Neil Miller, author of The Piano Lessons Book
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