Learn
Piano Improvisation through
Classical Piano
Music
By Peter
Edvinsson
Piano
Lesson: Learn Piano Improvisation
Through Classical Piano
Music
Tip!
Become a learning magnet. Listen
closely to all music you hear and
ask yourself; "How was that
done?"
Piano
improvisation in a classical
music way is an interesting
complement to ordinary piano
improvisational practicing. Let
me suggest a way to
practice!
Piano sheet
music is a means and not an end.
It's a way to notate what to play
on the piano.
You can
find a lot of interesting
passages in classical piano
solos. These solos can help you
collect improvisational material
to work on to make your piano
improvisations more
interesting.
How to
develop your classical piano
improvisational
skills?
May I
suggest that you begin with an
easy piano solo with just one
voice in your left hand and your
right hand.
Learn a
phrase with a few bars by heart.
Play the melody over and over
again as you try to change the
melody slightly without losing
the classical touch.
One
advantage of using classical
piano music in piano
improvisation exercises is that
you will find many interesting
and melodic basslines in
counterpoint style that you can
use to enchance your piano
improvising.
The use of
playing separate melodic lines
together in this way to create
music is called counterpoint.
Counterpoint is a musical
technique involving the
simultaneous sounding of separate
musical lines.
Classical
piano compositions are filled
with wonderful licks that you can
incorporate in your
playing.
What can
you do with a classical piano
composition to improve your piano
improvisational skills? Here are
some examples:
1. Study
differents ways used to play left
hand bass patterns. Play around
with the patterns and try to
transpose them into different
keys.
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2. Study
interesting chords. Experiment
with them, change keys and
positions.
3. Find
chord progressions to
develop.
4. Find
interesting passages with unusual
musical material.
5. Many
more things.
As I can
see it there are two differents
approaches to learn and work with
the before mentioned
material:
1. 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.
This
approach will of course develop
your skills but it will also be
very time consuming and maybe
overwhelming if you can't devote
all your time to piano playing.
Who would that be?
Another
drawback is that you might lose
interest in this type of piano
skill development because of the
stress involved in learning so
many different skills and maybe
the joy of playing piano will
diminish.
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2. Another
approach is to use the before
mentioned methods in a more laid
back way without learning
everything by heart. Let me give
you an example from my
childhood:
When I was
quite young I used to read a lot
of books on popular science from
the public library. I had a bunch
of books laying beside me as I
lay comfortably on my bed with
pillows and just having a good
time.
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you.
I never
felt compelled to read a book
from cover to cover or to read in
a certain way. The only thing I
did was to read the things I was
interested in, looking at
pictures and enjoying what I
did.
I know I
learned a lot from these nice
reading experiences. If I had a
goal it was to feel good and I
was reading because of
curiosity.
Tip!
Music can really relax you after
a long, hard day. Indulge
yourself.
I think you
can do the same with the
classical music you play. As you
enjoy to discover the secrets in
the piano sheet music the way I
have mentioned you are sowing
seeds that will sooner or later
manifest themselves in your
playing.
The
classical music will creep out in
your fingers and you will feel
new ideas coming up in your piano
improvisational endeavors!
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