| Why is it easy to compose piano music? | | | | to sight read complicated piano sheet music. The |
| Because you have to start from where you are. This | | | | reason for this I concluded was my concentrated |
| should be fairly easy; Otherwise you have not started | | | | effort to notate my own piano music. |
| from where you are. | | | | The process to play something with my fingers and |
| A suggestion is to start writing piano pieces for | | | | and then try to notate the music on manuscript paper |
| beginners in a progressive order. The idea is that as | | | | was so to speak a reversed sight reading exercise. |
| the pieces get more complicated for the player they | | | | What about manuscript paper? |
| will also become more complicated for you to notate | | | | You can use a notation program or you can write on |
| and compose and you will subsequently learn as you | | | | paper or use both approaches. I suggest that you start |
| write. | | | | writing on paper the way that composers have done |
| How is composing beneficial for your piano playing? | | | | for centuries. |
| 1. Your compositional endeavours will make you more | | | | Composing piano sheet music by hand on manuscript |
| and more aware of intrinsic musical subtleties in the | | | | paper is a cheap and effective exercise to learn the |
| music of other composers. When you start to think | | | | various sheet music symbols. |
| and feel like a composer you will also become a better | | | | Very often I jot down musical ideas on ordinary white |
| performer as well. Performing is also a creative | | | | paper after drawing five lines by hand. It works fine if |
| process similar to composing. | | | | you can't find your manuscript paper. You can buy |
| 2. When you compose you will become a better sight | | | | manuscript paper for sheet music or print out your |
| reader. | | | | favorite format for free on the site |
| I remember an assignment I had many years ago | | | | In conclusion, composing piano sheet music can |
| when I wrote the music to a musical. It made me | | | | become a natural part of your daily practice routine. |
| aware of many notational problems I had not taken | | | | Spend half an hour a day composing your own piano |
| the time to solve for myself before. | | | | sheet music and you will increase your musical |
| When I started to play my piano music again I was | | | | knowledge and become an even better musician! |
| astonished when realizing it was much easier for me | | | | And remember; Composing piano sheet music is fun! |