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Laptop Battery Too many pianists seem to have forgotten that their instrument
is classified as part of the percussion family. They spend so much
energy and focus on the minute details, such as which note goes
where, that they lose (or never get) the visceral connection with
their instrument, the relaxed physicality that drummers have.
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was originally a drummer, and you can always hear it in his
playing. To be able to spontaneously craft beautiful melodies on
the piano while functioning also as a percussionist is just one of
the many tightropes you must learn to walk as a musician.
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Microsoft In the following metaphor I have used absolutes to make appoint
strongly. I've minimized the important of individual notes in favor
of the larger elements of rhythm and shape. Certainly this is an
injustice to a more complex truth. Undeniably, tension and release,
occurring as one melody note moves to the next, is a vital and
emotional part of music.
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in its larger elements: the rhythms and the contours of the line as
opposed to the individual notes.
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to focus your attention on those elements. And you can only do that
when the smaller, mechanical tasks have been "hard-wired" into your
hands. For instance, shifting scales as the harmony changes is not
a creative act. It is largely a bookkeeping issue that should be
delegated to your hands - it should become automatic.
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Desktop Computer In order to thoroughly program your hands to handle the
mechanical aspects of playing, you need to spend years focusing on
them - working out note-choice, fingering, and technique minutiae.
And you need to know theory: the task of analyzing a tune for
scale-choice (another non-creative act) should feel automatic. But
all of this disciplined detail work is a means to an end, and
you'll progress much more quickly if you have a clear image of that
end.
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touch-sensitive drumheads where the keys used to be.
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that can instantly analyze chord to determine the most appropriate
improvising scales. You simply insert a card that has a recording
of your style of playing, so the computer can adjust its scale
analysis to match your style.
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During your solo you tap rhythms on the right drumhead, shifting
your right and left to indicate higher or lower pitch. While your
right hand is busy tapping, you comp on the other drumhead with
your left hand -again, just by tapping the rhythm you want. The
computer selects one of your favorite voicings for each chord. Your
only concern is the rhythm.
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Laptop Parts The point of this metaphor is to get you to envision what being
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voicings, and other structure thoroughly. It's a way for you to
imagine the physical, loose, big-movement, conductor-like,
drummer-like way of being at the instrument. It's to help you keep
that end vision in mind so that you don't end up boxing yourself
in. And it's to remind you that the piano is a percussion
instrument.
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