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33 Tips For Becoming a Great Piano Player!
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Practice is necessary, of course, but you could practice until the cows come home without understanding what you're doing at the piano, and all you would end up with is fingers that behave obediently to whatever the sheet music or score tells them to do. Understanding how music works in terms of form and content is the key to productive practice. Then you are not just playing mechanically by rote like a machine, but you can get "inside" the music and eventually let it flow out of your brain and heart as well as your hands. Piano Information Services Online. Piano/keyboard/organ Appraisals, Piano Price Lists, Piano Age Lookup And More. "There are at least 33 elements that contribute to becoming a good pianist," says Duane Shinn, pianist and owner of Keyboard Workshop in Medford, Oregon. "There are probably more, but without these 33 principles a pianist cannot hope to rise to the level of his ability." So yes - there really are secrets to becoming the piano player of your dreams. It's not that anyone is purposefully trying to keep a secret from you, but it's a rare teacher who has the ability to not only play well but to be able to explain music theory - chords, melody, rhythm, dynamics, and all the other elements that contribute to playing the piano well and with feeling. Play Piano Like A Pro Online Multimedia. An Online Piano Instruction Series. In our piano teaching studio at Piano University we have identified 33 distinct skill that must be developed if a person wants to play up to the limit of her or his potential. Here they are: 1 - Hand & Body Position -- Should you look down at your hands? How to use "eye flips" 2 - The key to productive practice -- Spaced repetition Music Master Pro - Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano and Violin Video Lessons! With 5 Instruments, this site Converts. Target Guitar, Bass and Drums all on 1 site. 3 - Attitude -- how it affects your learning 4 - How & when to pedal. Using explosive dynamics 5 - Exposure: why it's critically important 6 - Ear Training -- Intervals from 2nds to 13ths 7 - Fingering -- which finger do you use when? 8 - Chord substitutions that create fantastic sounds 9 - Chord recognition -- how to recognize what chord is being used 10 - Musical vocabulary: tempo words, form words 11- Arranging: how is your "bag of tricks" coming along? "Head arrangements" 12 - Melodic sense: how does the melody relate to the chords? 13 - Sight-reading: 7 fundamentals you just cannot ignore 14 - Key orientation: Can you think in the key you're playing in? 15 - Scanning the score before you start playing 16 - Mental practice -- how to learn music in bed 17 - Repertoire: Why you need one to be prepared for any opportunity Tip! Practice piano improvisation with scales. As soon as you master playing the scale up and down the piano it is time to create music with the scale by playing around with it, creating patterns and inventing melodies. 18 - Goal setting: How good can you get? Is there a limit? 19 - Rhythm awareness -- samba, bossa nova, bolero, etc. 20 - Why knowing music history is important to you 21 - Idea stealing -- how and where & from who 22 - 12-bar blues; creating a motif; "blue notes" 23 - Extended chords: 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, suspensions 24 - Technique acquisition: rubber balls, fingering drills 25 - Harmonization: Using I, IV & V to harmonize 26 - Key identification: Recognizing key signatures 27 - Voicing: Open, closed, registers, color tones 28 - Improvisation: Making music right out of your head 29 - Harmony & theory: How much should you know? 30 - Stylistic devices: Western, boogie, jazz, etc. 31 - Analysis: How to understand what you're hearing 32 - Riffs & runs & fills: How to develop them 33 - Cross-pollination: The best of all worlds! Tip! You can memorize the classical material and start a growing bank of chords, unusual melodic phrases, chords progressions and other classical piano oriented material you'll find in the piano compositions for further use in your piano improvisations. While reading music is important, the individual who develops these 33 basic skills will be light years ahead of the person who simply plays sheet music the way it is written. There is no longer any reason to be "tied to the written music" when you can master these techniques that allow you to play from the heart. A complete list of the 33 essentials of exciting piano playing can be found at http://www.playpiano.com/33-tips.htm Duane Shinn is the author of over 500 music books and music educational materials such as DVD's, CD's, musical games for kids, chord charts, musical software, and piano lesson instructional courses for adults. His 4-CD and 33-card course titled "33 Tips For Becoming a Great Piano Player!" is being used by pianists around the world. He holds advanced degrees from Southern Oregon University and was the founder of Piano University in Southern Oregon. He is the author of the popular free 101-week online e-mail newsletter titled "Amazing Secrets Of Exciting Piano Chords & Sizzling Chord Progressions" with over 70,000 current subscribers.
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