Welcome to Classical Music Guide
NEW! Classical Music Videos
Classical Music And Intelligent Article
Piano Lessons Can Be Fun!
Edward Weiss
There are essentially two ways to learn piano - note reading or chords. For those who want to spend years learning how to play other peoples music, note reading is the way to go.
For those who want to create their own special music, chord understanding is a must - and much easier to learn. It is far better to learn how to make music first than it is to read it on a piece of paper.
Imagine a writer forced to copy another novelists work. Insane right? But that's essentially what people do when they recreate another composers work. It is not a creative act but a recreative one because while the pianist's interpretation may be artistic, it does not mean that he created something original.
I'm not saying that great composer's works should not be recreated for others listening pleasure. I am saying that it's a good idea to understand that there is quite a difference between Beethoven composing something and someone else playing it.
Having said that, the benefit of learning how to make music first is that you understand the underlying principles of the thing. For example, let's go back to our fiction writer. If he looks at another novelist's work and the structure of the work, then he is beginning to see how the thing is made. This is entirely different than what goes on in the classical music world where a performer can read music, but does not know the principles that go into it's making.
Learn piano the easy way first. Learn how to first improvise, then compose your own music. This skill is invaluable even if you do read music because you begin to see how the thing is made and once you can see this, your appreciation of it will increase tenfold!
About the Author
Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music's online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years! Visit us now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html for a FREE piano lesson!
Classical Music And Intelligent News
Hi Ben, Thanks for a (New Matilda)
Hi Ben, Thanks for a thoughtful summing up of what’s been an enjoyable debate on the "pages" of New Matilda. I think, however, that you oversimplify what I was arguing in my article on the film industry. And one other small quibble - I wouldn’t call myself an industry ‘insider.’ I’m not a filmmaker, and I’m certainly not barracking from inside the industry. I have written about Australian ...
Read more...Clarinets, quartets a winning program (Naples Daily News)
Clarinets so popular in jazz today were championed early by classical composers. One of their best works was performed Sunday at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts.
Read more...Clarinets, quartets a winning program (Naples Daily News)
The clarinet was not found on a doorstep in a basket for Benny Goodman and Pete Fountain to adopt. It actually won its permanent seat in the orchestra with big-name foster dads like Wolfgang Mozart and Carl Maria von Weber championing it. Both composers began incorporating and writing for the clarinet shortly after it shed its skin as a low-range reed instrument called a chalumeau in the late ...
Read more...Now Showing: 8,647 Artists | 50,731 Events (POLLSTAR)
The band – Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Baio and Christopher Tomson – came together in 2005, as three of them entered their final year at New York City’s Columbia University.
Read more...Watch out, 2009! (The Telegraph)
His success may not be as well inscribed on the Bengali brain as Sourav’s, but this Calcutta grandmaster is checkmating the best in the business.
Read more...Classical Music in 2008: Did no one else think Barenboim's Beethoven Cycle was overrated? (Independent)
Among the operatic high notes of 2008 was the notion that small is beautiful. Netia Jones's thrifty multi-media Acis and Galatea, sung to single strings under Christian Curnyn in Wilton's Music Hall, was beguiling, and Jo Davies directed an enchanting Cunning Little Vixen for the Royal College of Music.
Read more...