WITNESS MY GEENYUS!!

[telophase]

Here we go, because I know you all wanted it: the stunning result of my two days' (so far) worth of piano blues improv classes:

http://www.magatsu.net/piano/12-bar-improv-02.mp3

I'm rather hazy on timing. :) It was done using the 12-bar blues on the left hand, and (most of the time, when I hit the correct keys), the six-note blues scale in C on the right.

Totally life-changing, isn't it?

Comments

[yhlee]

Huzzah! *applause*

Timing and flow will improve with practice. When I learn a piece, it sometimes helps me to go measure by measure, so that I know which keys/chords are supposed to be played, and then to play it through without stopping (even if it means hitting some wrong notes), so that I get a feel for the flow/rhythm. But of course you should do it however works for you. :-)

I imagine this varies from person to person, but for me part of piano (or any musical instrument) is memorizing the physical feel of the keys that I need to hit. Not in a deliberate way--it's just that when I practice a piece a lot, I come to learn the distances my fingers have to travel, things like that. Sometimes I practice by "playing" a piece in my head and I can feel which fingers should be moving.

[telophase]

Yeah. I'm still in the having to consciously think about it stage, especially when it comes to doing different things with different hands (and having to make up the stuff going on with the right was yet another thing entirely!)

I know from the few songs I've managed to learn that once I get the feel of a song, it's almost effortless and the movement of my hands goes on at a level almost under my consciousness - I'm not even feeling how far to move my hands, because I just move them and it's right, and I end up playing the correct notes before I think of the correct notes. Of course, right now I can only do that with songs right around middle C - having to move my hands more than a few keys in either direction isn't unconscious yet. XD

[estara.livejournal.com]

For not having been to piano class all that long I thought it was pretty good in the melody line ^^. My great-uncle had a metronome to keep time to when he played on the upright at home.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd done more improvisation when I took piano, good on you!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D