January 03, 2012

Basic Piano Class II: Music Appreciation

Playing the piano should be a relaxing activity to you.

So, never feel too much pressure on you while you're playing the piano.





First, you feel the melody outside and move your finger.

Second, you feel the emotion inside and move your body.

If you can attain these two goals, you can be as professional as the real performer. haha!

I'm just kidding! But, that is true.

Even if you don't really have as many experiences as the professional players,

you can pretend to be as professional as they are!

The tips are above. Both of them are hard to attain actually.

That seems not hard, but you need to express your emotion by the piano!!

That's the point!

How do you express your feelings through playing the piano?

If you remember my previous entries, you must know that you can tell the tonality by emotion.

So, you can express sorrow and sadness if you play with minor 

On the other hand, you can express joy and happiness if you play with Major 

Generally speaking, you want to learn to express feelings, you can appreciate others performance first.

Accordingly, we can learn much expressing skills from them.



Let's look at some good performance from great modern piano players.

I bet that you can feel the agitation and strong feelings that the performer wants to show.


Of course, There are some other examples to help you feel the emotions.

If you like to hear something joyful, pleasant, this is a good illustration.

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BLUE DANUBE FANTASY



Some people say that they love joyful and pleasant mood,

while others say that they would like some powerful, strong, Enormous scene.

How about...

Jung Lin - Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-








If you want to feel all the emotions together, here comes a good example to taste.

 "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence"







These examples may help you feel the emotion.

You can know that they try to move their body along with the melody.

This movement can help you show you're as flowing as blowing wind, or glowing stream.



With some appreciation toward the songs above, you must know how the players express the feelings.

They not only play the piano, but also "Dance upon" the piano!

They use their fingers to dance upon the black and white stages.

After these illustration, I hope that you guys all realize the performers' expression.

You can imitate them, but you should be careful in the same time.

Because you can just imitate one's expression, you still need to add something owned by yourself.

To express your feelings, the basic element always requires your expressing way!

With these tips, I guarantee that you will become a greater performers on the stage!














1 comment:

  1. Yes!! I totally agree with you that EMOTION plays a very important role when playing the piano. I guess emotion is like the soul for the melody, right? Thank you for teaching us this point which means everything for playing the piano! :)

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