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Piano Books
A fake book can be a source of many years of piano, inspiration. It contains a lot of melodies written in a concise format that includes only the melody and chord names. Take a look how you can use these melodies to become a better pianist!
First let’s take a look at how the melodies are notated in a fake book. In general, it is the melody of a song in the music notation sheet with suggestions on chord notes. This notation allows economical way to fill a fake book with a lot of melodies.
The advantage of this form of notation tunes is that you can have a fake book as a reference book with plenty of tunes available.
The downside is that you do not have a written agreement a song for the piano. You have to find a way to play the song solo. In fact, this may be an advantage that will help you develop as a pianist allows you to interpret the performance of the song as you feel is appropriate.
A little melody in a fake book can give you many different exercises areas of your playing the piano and help in its development as a musician. Here are some examples:
1. Learn to play chords with a melody. For example, playing chords with your left hand and melody with his right hand, playing bass notes with his left hand and combine melody notes and chords with his right hand, play various combinations of bass notes, chord notes and melody notes with both hands.
2. Learn how to find the right chords to use when playing a melody. In a fake book chords are suggestions that can easily be supplemented with more chords making the voicings and chord progressions more exciting.
3. Learn to improvise using the melody as a starting point. This is often called melodic improvisation. You can also use the chords or scales of adjustment as basis for improvisation. This is called improvisation and chord improvisation scale.
4. Learn to play the songs on the piano fake book in different keys thus developing your ability to play by ear and understand the piano keyboard adaptation of songs he has learned.
Actually you can use a song in a fake book as the basis for its development as a pianist if your goal is to be a good pianist in the field of improvised piano music. Take an example of a fake book. You have a song of their choice in front of you with the melody, chords and suggestions only. What can I do to use this song as a Basis for a piano practice session?
We assume that the song begins with the chord C-major and then in the bar next door is the F chord higher. Here are some suggestions about which practices from these two bars of music.
1. The chord voicings work. Practice playing C-major triads with his left hand in the three investments. That means you play the chord C-major with the three notes involved, C, E and G, in three combinations, it is ie, CEG, EGC or GCE. Do the same with the F major chord. The practice also to move from C and F in various combinations.
2. The work on reproduction the melody in different ways. Just take note of the right hand, right hand playing octaves, playing the melody with his left hand and chords with his right hand and much more.
3. Work on adding more chords. For example, take the C-chord to F could go through Gm7 C7 and thereby creating the following chord sequence, C, Gm7, C7, F. You can do much to liven up the song, adding more akin to that of the fake book.
4. Add notes to the chords you use in your song. A C-major chord can be easily substituted with a Cmaj7 chord or Cmaj9 one and you can find more interesting chords if you focus on one string at a time. For Of course, you can work on playing these new chords in different combinations and also investment.
5. Use the song as a base for improvisation. Learn a melody passage by heart. Play this passage over and over again with slight variations in the melody thus practicing improvisation melodic. Or use the chords. The chord C-major suggests two major scales to use when improvising. You can use a C-major scale or a C Major pentatonic scale, for example.
In short you can use a single song in a fake book piano as the basis for exercises in many areas of his development as a pianist and at the same time to build a repertoire of popular tunes for their own benefit and enjoyment of others.
Peter Edvinsson is a pianist, composer and music teacher. He invites you to download your free piano sheet music at http://www.capotastomusic.com
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