I have never learnt music theory before, but entered a school choir and found that I had relative pitch of some sort.. I developed a passion for playing the piano. Now I can play pop songs on the C major when I hear them. But I hardly know the techniques. Or the technical. And thus I have some questions which I would really appreciate getting answers for.
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How do I learn how to play on other keys when improvising? I usually just press the transpose button on my piano then play in the C key. I think in solfege so unless it’s the F/G key where it’s marginally easier (only one black key?) I am completely lost, I have to start counting notes and stuff, which means I can’t improvise on the spot. What should I do to get intuitive with all 12 keys? I tried, but I find it immensely hard to memorize 12 positions per key when there are 12 keys
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Do people who sight read just.. memorize the positions of the notes? For me, I have to do FACE and EGBDF, and it takes me a whole minute to read a couple bars or less. It takes even longer when the note is really high or low.
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I’m not sure how to explain this, but when I improvise, let’s say my left hand plays a C chord. It would just be C, G, C. Sometimes I would play a third, change the rhythm, whatever. But when I see youtube videos, the truly beautiful covers use notes that clash with the original chord, to make some special types of chords. Let’s say, jazz chords? In current music like edm, a lot of special chords are used too, it spices up the song, so they rarely just.. play C E G you know. Is there a certain sort of guideline to when it is appropriate to add certain notes to a chord to make it crunchier.
Thanks for reading through. I’ll really appreciate any replies~ as this has been bugging my mind for quite a long while, and I couldn’t really find online solutions to it.
Submitted May 25, 2018 at 11:50AM by Waitwhyyyyyyy https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/8m2bun/how_can_i_improve_my_improvisationgeneral_piano/?utm_source=ifttt