Reproducing Piano

Reproducing Piano

Steinway Duoart Reproducing Piano

Preparing To Practice Playing Piano

When you begin to dread piano practice, all you need is an attitude adjustment.

Piano Practice Tips To Get You In The Right Frame Of Mind

It is not a job or chore to practice the piano. It isn’t even something you have to do. You started playing because you enjoy music, and you want to play. You want music to flow through your fingertips. Practice should fulfill that desire, not stifle it.

Before you ever sit at that piano again, you should think about this. How would you feel about practice if you could play a piece, start to finish, the first time you ever saw it? What if you were told that you had the talent to be a professional, and you just needed to develop it? It would be a whole lot easier to be motivated, wouldn’t it?

The truth is that it is possible for you to reach this level. You just need to stop thinking that you have to be perfect every time. You will not master the piano overnight. Don’t listen to others that criticize your playing. They don’t care as much as you do.

Learning to play the piano is as simple as playing one note after another, then go from there. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. There is absolutely no way to learn without making mistakes.

The piano is a feeling instrument. The keys are like the skin, and you can either please them or harm them. Stroke the keys and, together, you will produce a melodic tone. Poke them, and the sound is harsh.

Learning the piano is a partnership. You should not think of yourself as playing “on” the piano, rather consider that the instrument is a part of you, an extension of your fingers. Think of this in terms of an amputee. He or she is fitted with a prosthetic limb, and is taught to use the limb as if it were real. Over time, it becomes more natural, until the artificial limb is, in fact, an extension of the body.

Every successful musician seeks to make the instrument part of them. The piano is just a tool, but the music comes from you and the strong feelings that you have for it.

When you practice the piano, your goal should not be to reproduce a piece. Instead you should set out to experiment, to find out the best way to bring a piece to life for you. There are people who believe that there is only one way to play a piece correctly, but a piece is only correct if it makes sense to you. In fact, there are no two artists that can or choose to play the same piece in the same way. The mark of a good musician is the emotion that they bring to their music.

So, how do you get to this point? Practice.

You should begin by sitting quietly, hearing the music in your head. Feel the movement that the tones create. When you become the instrument, you will feel your pulse adjust to the beat of the song. Once you feel the music filling you, you know that it is ready to be set free.

Lift your hands to the keyboard. Bringing to life the music that moves you is why you started playing in the first place, so you are now ready to play. You have now changed piano practice from a chore to an attraction.

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If you can play piano by ear, could you describe the moment when it became possible for you?

If you can't, please just avoid answering the question. I'm interested in how musicians experience the ability to hear and reproduce (and make variations on) patterns of music that they hear. How do you imagine the intervals between notes? How do you decide which chords to use? Is your musical memory analogous to any of the other ways you remember things (as far as you can tell)? Thanks for your help.
These are wonderful answers, & I really appreciate your help. I'm going to leave this question open for a while longer to see if anyone else happens upon it to add yet another point-of-view. If it goes to a vote, it will only be because I want others to get a chance to read your answers, not because I've abandoned the question. All the best.

Interesting question. I started playing by ear on classical guitar and piano when I was six. I was always composing my own music and songs rather than learning other people's music. It wasn't until I was fourteen that I learnt that there was even such a thing as chords or musical notation so I basically started learning the names for the things I was already doing.

Playing by ear was always trial and error. The more you do it, the easier it gets to distinguish sounds and their relationship to each other...especially in European and American music...which tend to be pretty simple in structure.

But for me, playing by ear, or improvising, ....(and this might sound really flaky but it's true)....has always been a matter of being led on a journey by the emotional reaction I have to each sound made. That's for creating music.

When it comes to learning someone else's music by ear, I just break it up with how I listen to it....listen to the bass line and figure that out,....listen to the melody...figure that out...listen to the harmony...figure that out...then I play them all together and somewhere between what my fingers are trying to do and all the music I have already played in the past, all the technical details sort of just work themselves out.