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A piano is an instrument, a piece of equipment that makes sounds when you press the keys. Anyone can take piano lessons, and with some practice and a patient piano tutor, can manage to make the piano play a tune. But there's more to playing a piano that being able to bang on the keys in the right sequence as dictated by the piece of music.
Music isn't just about technical know-how as taught by a teacher, or even self-taught. It's about feeling, and that's where this statement comes from. Someone who has a nice touch on the piano is someone who really feels what they're playing. They know the music they're playing, they understand what the composer intended, they're sensitive to the emotion that is supposed to come from the piece of music and they convey this through the way they play and the atmosphere it creates.
Sometimes real piano playing genius doesn't move between head and fingers, it also passes through the heart. When you hear music that is played with that kind of emotion, whether it's soft and tender, or it's loud and filled with passion, the piano player conveys this raw emotion through the way they place their hands above the keys, the force with which they strike the keys, the way they move their body as they play and the way even the slightest of mood changes are reflected in both the player and the sound from the keyboard.
To have a nice touch on the piano doesn't mean that you can read a piece of music and make it loud and soft in the right places, that again is technique that can be learned. The emotion is something that comes in time to those who not only practice the actual playing of the music, but also have done some research and have an understanding of what the composer was thinking about when he created the piece. If the pianist has the right emotion for each piece when they start to play they will be able to produce music that doesn't just sound fast and loud, but rather urgent and afraid, or happy and free. It won't just sound slow and monotonous, but rather sad and lonely. This isn't anything to do with the notation on a piece of manuscript paper that sits on the music stand, but everything to do with the pianist's empathy and understanding of what the composer intended entwined with the technical skills that come from hours of practice.
Anyone can learn the basics of piano playing, but if you want to be great, if you want to have a nice touch on the keyboard, then you need to not only think about the notes and chords you play, but develop a sensitive understanding of each piece of music's history that you play, and deliver the emotion accordingly. Listen to how various pianists play the same piece of music, you might be surprised how some of them touch you, and yet others playing the same music go right over your head. The pianists with the nice touch, they're the ones that play from their heart and their music touches yours.
Duane Shinn is the author of a free newsletter on piano chords & chord progressions available at Piano Touch
How to Make Necklaces, Bracelets, and Earrings - Video on Demand Services
Are you looking for a better way of learning to make necklaces, bracelets, and earrings? I know you will want to use this method...learning with video aids. The biggest and the best advantage are replaying the videos as often as needed.
If you are like me, attending classes is wonderful, but the downside is memory retention. When you put into practice what you learned in the classroom you realize that you forgot half the lesson that the teacher taught and your notes which seemed clear during class time is now nonsensical.
Benefits of learning with videos are:
- Rewind, fast forward, reverse, pause, play and repeat as often as necessary.
- Learn at you own pace.
- Economic savings.
- Select your area of interest.
- Details are clearly defined.
- Instand gratification.
- Able to view to refresh your memory
- Jewelry making tips and tricks.
- Visual...many of us have to see in order to make a jewelry craft. Video allows for magnification so that you can see the details.
Envision yourself being able to make beaded jewelry. Making beaded jewelry will open many interesting avenues as a new hobby or as a career. As you search for your interest medium you will discover many beautiful objects that are incorporated into this form of art.
What type of beaded jewelry would you like to make?
Have you wondered how a classical pearl necklace is made? Would you like to make a crystal necklace accented with gold beads? How about a heart shaped pendant or how to wire wrap a gem or memory wire a bracelet? Or to bead weave stretch nylon into a bracelet?
Visualize yourself making these beautiful jewelry pieces with your skilled hands and your creative designing talents making personalized gifts for friends and relatives.
Take time to study jewelry catalogs. I have discovered that this will help you to get familiar with terminology and give you a jump start when asking for jewelry supplies. It's a shortcut if you do not want to walk the retail stores to see what is currently fashionable.
Knowledge is power. Read and acquaint yourself with the history of jewelry making. Nowadays there is a big interest in vintage or antique, retro, estate and beaded jewelry. Learning the origins from primitive to present day will stir your imagination and help stimulate your creativity into originating new jewelry designs.
Visit bead stores to learn about origin, size, colors, luster, and cleaning of pearls and other types of beads.
As you walk about the store you will see beads of glass, acrylic or plastic, crystallized, fabric, and resin. Natural beads of wood, nut, certain plant seeds, bone, horn, and teethh are available. All types of sea shells or sea life like sea horses, starfish and fantasy mermaids have been molded and finished in readiness to be fastened to chain or beads.
Both bead stores and craft shops will also have artificial metals imitating silver, gold, and copper. For instance, copper mixed with zinc becomes brass. Mixing silver, copper and a bit of gold makes sterling silver. Copper can be alloyed into bronze.
Visit jewelry stores to get familiar with the types of gold, silver, and platinum settings. Learn to recognize different precious stones; diamonds, sapphire, rubies, emeralds and many more. Look at jewelry closures, chains, and all types of hooks, clasps and locks.
Video on Demand means that you do not have to wait for a video to arrive in the mail nor do you have to go to a store to shop and bring it home. You just push a button on your computer keyboard and the instructor with the lesson appears through the magic of technology. That instructor is ready to teach on your demand.
Start learning how to make necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. I know you are going to enjoy using this method of making jewelry. Click this link http://www.infotrish.vpweb.com/
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keyboard question?
My friend has purchased a ES keyboard, he downloaded vintage key sounds library from motifator now he wants to use the sounds in song mode. Can anyone help with this please? Serious answers only please. Thanks in advance!
You've to pay in advance!
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These Vintage Keyboard Stickers Make Me Want To Type By Candlelight [Stickers]
# stickers My keyboard is silent, but deadly, without any of those old-school klick-klack-klickedy-klack-klack sounds. But for Just over $20, I can at least make it look retro and dream of being a serious typewriter user. [ Rockett St George via Toxiferous Designs ] More »
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