Piano Forum
Piano Board => Student's Corner => Topic started by: ratihmaharani on September 12, 2011, 08:51:02 AM
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Hi, i am new in learning piano.
exactly, i was interested in piano since i was in elementary.
and i now really want to play piano. even if it's late, i'll work hard to be a great pianist.
sometimes, i feel like that there are so much melodies in my head, it's like waltz, sometimes sonata, or others. i would like to write them down but i just don't know how. it feels so hard to be written, maybe because i am new in learning piano (classical music) so i don't have any better pitch?
if you were me, what would you do? any advice will help.
thank you :)
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Why not improvise ? Try to express your ideas at once, as they occur to you, directly at the instrument. Read the posts of the improvisers on this forum in the section about improvisation. Plenty of good advice about starting exists here. At first you will fumble but don't worry about that, it happens to everybody when they start.
I suggest you leave the writing out until a piece of music is fully conceived at the piano, at which point it becomes an exercise in merely finding the best written approximation to what you can already play. There are a number of reasons why I suggest this process as opposed to writing as you go, the most important being related to speed and fluency. Improvisation is realised as rapidly as any stream of ideas occurs in your mind, but writing is a very slow process. Also, the physical aspect, the haptic component, plays an enormous role in piano music.
Of course you might find that trying to write out all your improvised ideas is more trouble than it is worth. Like quite a few among us, once you start improvising you might find playing and recording is a sufficiently satisfying creative activity in itself. Nothing wrong with that.
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ted is giving you GREAT advice!! couldn't have said that better...
"trying to write out all your improvised ideas is more trouble than it's worth"
nothing wrong with that![img]