| If you're a classically trained pianist, you | | | | actually taught NOT to be creative! Think |
| probably can read music extremely well. But | | | | about it.Reading music is just one aspect of |
| you probably can't just go to the piano, sit | | | | the process. It's like reading the words in a |
| down, and play what you feel!It's a sad but | | | | good book. We all can do it but most of us |
| true fact. For most classically trained | | | | wouldn't be able to actually create what was |
| students, improvisation and just "being" at | | | | on the written page. Now all of this begs the |
| the piano is not an option. This isn't to say | | | | question of why so many people devote so much |
| that they don't want to improvise and create | | | | of their time to note-reading. I think the |
| their own music. They just don't know how to | | | | answer is simple - it's what's always been |
| do it!Listen.. It's not their fault at all! | | | | done and it's something that piano teachers |
| You see, their training consists of spending | | | | (usually on a pedestal) push their students |
| years upon years learning how to play the | | | | into learning.Listen carefully... You don't |
| music of dead composers. And while the music | | | | need to read music in order to play piano! As |
| of "the masters" is great and worthy of | | | | a matter of fact, learning how to note read |
| hearing, it isn't something coming from | | | | before learning how to improvise and use |
| you.Writers don't have this problem. If | | | | chords at the piano can be a major deterrent |
| someone interested in learning the art of | | | | to creative piano playing.Edward Weiss is a |
| short-story writing was told that they would | | | | pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence |
| have to spend 4 years copying another | | | | Music's online piano lessons. He has been |
| novelists work, they would go insane.Painters | | | | helping students learn how to play piano in |
| also don't have this problem. A watercolorist | | | | the New Age style for over 14 years and works |
| would laugh in your face if you told him that | | | | with students in private, in groups, and now |
| you learned how to paint by assiduously | | | | over the internet. Stop by now at for a FREE |
| copying another painters work. In fact, music | | | | piano lesson! |
| may be the only art where students are | | | | |