How to Improvise and Solo on Classical Music

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Ай бұрын

Why has Improvisation been erased from classical music, and is it now time to bring it back.
In todays live stream we explored this topic with some powerful tools for improvisation on the piano.
We also discussed the 21st Century Piano Student and 4 powerful pillars that a piano student can use to structure their practice with powerful results.
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@matthiaskalt7041 27 күн бұрын

Absolutely my topic! This is the only reason I play the piano! ❤

@user-rg2uc8sb2m 10 күн бұрын

Wow that was brilliant… even that simple wandering away trick when doing the Chopin exercise! Thank you. That was so much fun. My dream is to learn how to improvise like Dudley Moore would on the piano, I’m thinking Beyond the Fringe. (I’m a classical pianist who’s been exploring!)

@carolmurphy4627 Ай бұрын

Love the chromatic descending changes in the Chopin improv. Chromatic changes like that are so beautiful (and you made it easy). You are speaking my language about sponaneity. I lost mine, but I can hear the difference when I play from music, and when I don't. The music is free when you're not just robotically playing from a page.

@dr.deanbard4784 Ай бұрын

WOW. I had no Idea that you could Improvise on classical music. Beautiful. I can’t wait to get to my Piano

@dr.deanbard4784 Ай бұрын

I am starting the course in June and now becoming enthusiastic, passionately excited.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano Ай бұрын

Congratulations for joining the program! Looking forward to taking this musical journey with you!

@geoffmaturen1214 Ай бұрын

It's a great question -- how the European tradition of art music lost the practice of improvisation. I'm very down with what you said. When one has the score -- basically a text -- but little or no aural or bodily experience of the music to begin with -- which happens when sheet music becomes a dominant form of distribution -- the teacher becomes the "priest" who interprets its meaning and -- more importantly -- the text becomes canonical and unchangeable. The music is often great -- even transcendent -- but the text will not get you to where it came from -- that is, someone singing or playing an instrument, alone or with others.

@marquislewis9063 Ай бұрын

Now we're getting somewhere.

@smileydoug Ай бұрын

Wonderful! Thank you.

@cain1s Ай бұрын

Great information.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano Ай бұрын

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@georgelemos5288 Ай бұрын

Can you explain how we can play a chord on the right and another on the left and make a different chord

@TwelfthRoot2 Ай бұрын

you can play part of the chord in one hand (like a root and an 8th) and then play the remaining notes in the other hand.

@marquislewis9063 Ай бұрын

This was telling. Admittedly, though, I can't tell if that's a good thing or bad? Concerning improvisation, it felt like you kind of beat around the real issue. Me personally, I feel like music and math share a sure similarity: no matter how advanced you get, you never want to forget that one plus one equals two. That's what improv is for me. I think the best out there never lose touch with it. Or shouldn't. From that perspective, it isn't mysterious at all why the obvious isn't as publicly obvious.

@marquislewis9063 Ай бұрын

Then, again, has it (relax and ease at the keybed) really gone anywhere? Seems very much alive, and well to me. Fortunately. Music Appreciation--at its finest.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano Ай бұрын

No one ever said if it's a good thing or bad thing. It's the story and the history and the opportunity it brings.

@marquislewis9063 Ай бұрын

The story? The history? Opportunity? What kind, and who for? I don't know about thee story, or thee history, but, it does appear to be at least one. Well, look at that? We're veering off a bit only to return to home again; e.g. the piano.

@marquislewis9063 Ай бұрын

Now, if only I knew what I just did. Which key do you think that was in?

@georgelemos5288 Ай бұрын

What about Gm A and Dm

@TwelfthRoot2 Ай бұрын

playing classical music without ever improvising (or at the very least playing a written piece so far from how it was written in so many different ways that it becomes close to improvised) would leave the written music to sound flat and practiced. you kinda have to bend and break it and make it your own before it starts to sound natural.

@howtodoitdude1662 Ай бұрын

That’s the difference between a musician and a composer.

@feg9417 Ай бұрын

You talk too mutch ….

@contemporaryschoolofpiano Ай бұрын

This is a live stream so our followers tend to expect more talking because of the format, but I have a video of the same topic with more demonstration. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j92Hdpmat6-lg3k.htmlsi=N9SVOjeuz2lmhZ_E