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