Sep 10, 2009
You can learn jazz from YouTube 1
After I completed my lesson videos for my jazz piano lesson "Lazy way to learn jazz piano", I have been picking videos that are available at You tube. And I have found that there are so many lessons that fits to be nice tutorials.
My plan is to relate my findings to you readers so that you do not need to go through You tube to find what you want. Yes, the selection is aimed to the very beginners and the matter that I was not able to tell because of limited video length.
The first one is this: Go here
and click on the "How to play piano: The basics, Piano Lesson #1" that is located left of the video screen.
If you haven't ever touched piano I recommend this video. A young guy talks a lot but saying things nice way. It is of 24 minutes long. They restrict it to see at You tube.
Yes, it tells you how to form your hand, how to position your hand against the instrument and your finger position.
I'd say that this is pretty thorough way to tell you the very beginning of your piano.
My plan is to relate my findings to you readers so that you do not need to go through You tube to find what you want. Yes, the selection is aimed to the very beginners and the matter that I was not able to tell because of limited video length.
The first one is this: Go here
and click on the "How to play piano: The basics, Piano Lesson #1" that is located left of the video screen.
If you haven't ever touched piano I recommend this video. A young guy talks a lot but saying things nice way. It is of 24 minutes long. They restrict it to see at You tube.
Yes, it tells you how to form your hand, how to position your hand against the instrument and your finger position.
I'd say that this is pretty thorough way to tell you the very beginning of your piano.
Aug 28, 2009
4 - How & when to pedal. Using explosive dynamics
Pedaling does require you to have good ear. It is too easy to play loosely. Yes, You can keep pedal pushed all the way from start to end of music. It can only be identified by your ear. If you do it too much, the sound become thick, dull and cloudy to your ear as well as to your audiences.
As the theory, you don't extend your pedaling beyond the bar you start to pedal. In playing jazz, to avoid clouding your chord, you should not use pedal beyond the limit of the chord.
And it is sincerely recommended that you use it just to give explosive effect to your sound. Which means you limit the use of it for a couple notes.
Above can be proven if you listen to Johon Lewis or Oscar Peterson. Red Garland uses pedal quite frequently when he play melody with chord.
The advice is that you should be able to keep your finger on a certain note so that you can play melody in legato. Thereby you cn keep your melody line clear and crisp.
As the theory, you don't extend your pedaling beyond the bar you start to pedal. In playing jazz, to avoid clouding your chord, you should not use pedal beyond the limit of the chord.
And it is sincerely recommended that you use it just to give explosive effect to your sound. Which means you limit the use of it for a couple notes.
Above can be proven if you listen to Johon Lewis or Oscar Peterson. Red Garland uses pedal quite frequently when he play melody with chord.
The advice is that you should be able to keep your finger on a certain note so that you can play melody in legato. Thereby you cn keep your melody line clear and crisp.
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