Saturday, October 26, 2024 | Uncategorized

Did you do any improvisation with your piano teacher when you were first learning the piano? Perhaps not, but I am a big fan of this. There are many advantages to learning to improvise. The first could simply be to impress your friends with being able to sit down and play something without needing any music, or getting stuck when you can’t remember the ‘tricky bit’! Added advantages of improvisation also include a deep understanding of key signatures, scales and modes - this will help you with playing from notated music also composed in these keys. It also will mean that you understand harmonisation and chord progressions - when you are listening to pop music on the radio you’ll suddenly be able to hear the structure so much more clearly! Perhaps a grasp of improvisation will lead to a future of composition? It will certainly mean that you will understand music theory much more deeply.

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