The Art of Improvisation

Sunday, February 04, 2007

After the first few piano lessons, the students begin to learn more about their instrument, it is natural to have the desire to play whole melodies rather than aisle chords.

Playing music is easy if you take advantage of the art of improvisation, which is also the best way to break the boredom. Not all people who learn to play the piano are meant to become musicians, hence there will be always the chance that they try to quit before complete the training.

Taking your piano lesson from this approach, please do no try to throw away the time invested learning the basics and take a relaxing break allowing that the music flows naturally to your fingers.

Improvising is nothing more than trying to apply what you already know, playing each key with no fear and no worries regarding your performance, because traditional learning style played over and over makes beginners get discouraged soon.

With some basic tips to understand the theory of improvisation and a few basic tips, there is no need to learn music to play your melodies or make musical arrangements to your favorites that is what people who love music do when they are blocked.

Keep your improvisation going on every time you fill stuck in a series of rhythmic patterns, but focusing on your own outcome, following your intuition while playing notes for no apparent reason, and do not worry too much if the music produced by improvisation is not perfect.

Being excessively concerned on what you are playing is the best way to kill your improvisation sense. Play your piano without sheet music is an experience that all novices have to face at some point during their learning time so the sooner you give it a try, the more confident you will be to improvise on your instrument.

Improvisation cannot be taught at all, even thought there are numerous techniques to develop it if you want to research for some of them.

First, relax when sitting at the piano, take a deep breath, and let your fingers take control playing on the keys for a moment without paying too much attention to the choirs simply enjoying that moment of no sense musical outcome.