| type="text/javascript"> | | | | notes in between the melody! Along the way I |
| You're sitting at the piano playing your favorite song | | | | discovered there was a bit more but I have it down to |
| but you can only play the notes on the sheet music in | | | | formula that works for me now. |
| front of you. You long to play that song the way it is | | | | 1.Sing the song first: Even though at first I was only |
| running in your head but you just don't know where to | | | | improvising 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. I | | | | in my head before even sitting at the piano. Many |
| knew the sound I wanted but I couldn't understand | | | | times your creativity with a song will stop at your |
| how to play it. Then one day I was listening to a cd of | | | | fingers. If you sing/humm the song first you will notice a |
| some favorite tunes and I could recognize what the | | | | lot more creativity happening because you were |
| pianist was doing. In a nutshell he was playing the scale | | | | proficient with speech first. |