Five steps to improvising at the piano

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You're sitting at the piano playing your favorite songdiscovered there was a bit more but I have it down to
but you can only play the notes on the sheet music informula that works for me now.
front of you. You long to play that song the way it is1.Sing the song first: Even though at first I was only
running in your head but you just don't know where toimprovising on songs I already at least had a melody
begin. Does this sound like you?line and chord for, I now improvise a number of songs
Years ago I could only play the music in front of me. Iin my head before even sitting at the piano. Many
knew the sound I wanted but I couldn't understandtimes your creativity with a song will stop at your
how to play it. Then one day I was listening to a cd offingers. If you sing/humm the song first you will notice a
some favorite tunes and I could recognize what thelot more creativity happening because you were
pianist was doing. In a nutshell he was playing the scaleproficient with speech first.