improvisation
improvisation
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by Edward Weiss - 2006-12-09
You want to learn piano and play it now, but you don't want to spend years at it. Understandable. You're going to love this. It's something called the ostinato technique and with it you'll be able to ...
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by Edward Weiss - 2006-12-27
If only beginning piano players realized that they could create their own unique music right away, perhaps more of them would.What I mean is this…most students, young and old alike know only 2 ways to...
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by Edward Weiss - 2007-01-25
So, you want to learn how to play piano by ear. You think this skill is reserved for those with "special" talent. You're wrong about that!What does it mean to play by ear? Simply that the musician und...
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by Peter Edvinsson - 2007-02-08
Let me give you some easy progressions that will help you in your improvisational piano playing!What is a progression?A progression is a set of chords played consecutively. Generally, successive chord...
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by Peter Edvinsson - 2007-02-09
Let me give you some easy progressions that will help you in your improvisational piano playing!What is a progression?A progression is a set of chords played consecutively. Generally, successive chord...
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by Michelle James - 2007-03-06
I'm in an improvisational theater performing group and we improvise full-length plays with nothing planned in advance. No structure. No outline. No planned characters or plot development. Nothing exce...
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by Edward Weiss - 2007-03-13
If you're like many who enjoy the piano, you've probably been mystified as to how someone can just sit down and play without sheet music.It seems like an impossible feat. But there's a method to the m...
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by Edward A. Weiss - 2007-03-28
I really love improvisations that go nowhere. Improvisations where there is no goal… just an impulse to follow feelings in the current moment.In fact, some have described this kind of music as self-in...
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by Mike Hayes - 2007-04-01
"Mode" is a musical term referring to the displacement of a scale if, for example a scale has five different notes, as the Pentatonic scale does, then it has five different modes.Sooner or later t...
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by Edward Weiss - 2007-04-05
So, you've taken piano lessons for years but you still can't play on your own.You probably know the scales and can read off music sheets, but you can't just sit down at the piano and make music.Don't ...