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Valerie Puorto
I dropped a lot of negativity a few weeks ago about professional music. Today, I am going to give another perspective though not about the same genre. If you are one of those pianists that wants to earn a living in music, I encourage you to read this Rolling Stone article.
Now, let me give you the other side of this. The Whispering group has had an incredible run with Pandora but there are no guarantees that it will continue. In fact, there have been many changes in algorithms and payment calculations and some musicians have taken big hits on income. The smart ones have done everything possible to diversify their income across a lot of streaming platforms and have looked for ways to develop income outside streaming such as website CD and sheet music sales. Those guys will be fine in the long run for the most part. Others who have failed to protect themselves from Pandora issues and gotten used to the big checks and living large may end up in trouble in the future. The fact that Pandora has never been a huge part of my music income probably is not completely a bad thing for that reason.
So here is my takeaway: if you are a musician and can record ambience music, there is a huge demand for it not just on Pandora but on the Apple platforms, Spotify, YouTube, and many other streaming platforms that pay in a similar way. Streaming ambiance music is a great income strategy for pianists who can write it. I am not going to guarantee you can make a great living with it but it is something to look at. Just be careful, understand that nothing is forever, and plan on some bumps in the road along the way.
I've been learning piano, and I just got up to music theory. I find it very confusing, and don't see the point. My plan for learning piano is just to read and learn songs, and I know how all the notes and rests work. I think if I just practice learning songs, I'll gradually get better, and is that enough? Or do I have to learn all the chords and things?
With theory knowledge, you'll see patterns emerge in new pieces, and they will help you learn quicker. Not only that, but you'll be able to understand what's happening. And surely that makes the learning process better.
You could learn to read music just well enough to know which keys to hit when, how hard, etc. However, learning some basic theory might make reading the music easier. Without any theory, you will see one arbitrary bunch of notes, followed by another, and yet another. Knowing some basic theory, you will be able to recognize many common patterns: that bunch of notes is a C major chord and the next bunch is G7 chord; that sequence of notes is a C major arpeggio etc.
I am guessing that you don't know Finnish, you can substitute another language for the example. I picked Finnish as it uses the Latin script but it is not related to English and hence few words would be recognizable. So, I hope that this is a good analogy to reading music when you only understand the notes and not how they are typically used together.
No , but , if you want to become a well rounded Pianist , then knowing music theory, from rudiments of music to Harmony , you can enjoy making music and better understand the structure of music and how it flows from beginning to end. The chords are the words in music. To study music theory should make it easier to you to understand the patterns in the music you want to perform.
Theory is nothing else than an abstraction and reflection of what we are doing: Melodies are built of scales and triads, so you will easily recognize that there are scales and triads in a song and you will transform this knowledge to other new songs. And you will learn by the way the intervals and recognize the intervals by ear and by sight.
You will learn from the beginning that there are chords to accompany a song and you will discover that there are rules how these chords are related and brought in context with each others. There are cadences, typical chord progressions and fifth-fall cadences. All this stuff is as as abstracted as the essence of all kind of songs you're still going to learn. Theory is nothing else than insight of what you do and transferring this insight to new situations, in this case to new songs. Apart of the cognitive insight you get by theory you mustn't forget the benefit that you win for your fingers, finger settings, motoric memory by practicing scales and chords, circle of fifths, arpeggios etc.
This is theory too ! Many people can play piano and don't know how all the notes and rests work. They might say, I don't need knowing the names, all this is just confusing me. You know the advantage you have with knowing to read notes. Now the theory goes on: knowing intervals, chords, keys is nothing else than theory music on a higher level and you will read much easier (and improvise or play by ear) all songs and what ever you like.
It's not rocket science: there's a root note and the chord is either minor or major. Even with on this very simple level you can already handle the vast majority of pop music. It's difficult only in theory. Practice is much easier.
You don't have to learn all of this if you just want to play piano. But its still very helpful because if you know, for example, how a cadenza is constructed it will be easier for you to learn new notes. It will improve your play when you know how different parts are highlighted by the use of unique harmonic changes or specific chords. In other words you will have more of those smiling "ahhhh" moments and this makes the play more rewarding, at least for me.
One advantage of learning these things is that you will begin to understand basic patterns used in composition. This helps one become a better composer and arranger, and when it comes to learning a new piece of music seeing these patterns can be very useful.
If music theory doesn't make sense to you then you probably have a teacher who doesn't understand it either. Anyone who understands theory gets very excited about it and they love to share how it is all sinuously networked.
It is like taking algebra, geometry and physics in HS. They may not make sense and you may not think you will use those disciplines in real life and that is because your teacher probably failed at teaching you to apply the theories. However, if you ever buy a house and do home repairs, you'll discover (dis = opposite, cover = bury) that algebra, geometry and physics come in real handy. In fact, if you become a pianist, you'll discover that algebra, geometry and physics comes in real handy because playing is about physics and ergonomics, not the fingers. Piano playing isn't merely matching dots on a page to a key. And, it isn't just regurgitating memorized theory. It is about getting down to the roots and ripping them apart. You'll be able to listen to every and any style, age or genre of music and hear how it cross-polinates through the ages. You will hear music and not just hear mere music but exposition, entasis, episodes, subjects, permutations, augmentations, stretto, modes, superimposition's . . . It isn't just "music." It is everything combined into one or, uni + verse.
What you don't know, you don't know. But once you know, it changes the world. But be warned, you won't enjoy working with musicians who don't know what you know because they will limit your full potential. What they don't know will hold you back. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Mediocrity is fun when you are surrounded by mediocrity.
For me personally, I found much of the presented music theory to be too verbose and complex to apply in real-time while trying to play songs on piano by ear. It was very frustrating. So back in summer 2019, I tried to play some traditional Christmas carols by ear. After playing 3 or 4 songs, I suddenly realized that the the melodic note is played as note 1, 3, or 5 of the basic chord. Essentially, I discovered (or re-discovered) the commonly cited and shared rule of thumb that one selects the chord from any of the SEVEN basic chords in the key of the song melody that carries the current note in the melody, and expressing it in a new way that made the rule of thumb much much easier to execute mentally and in real-time while playing songs spontaneously and by ear on piano.
The moment I discovered this simplified expression of the common rule, I was suddenly able to play songs by ear for hours on end and play the songs in any key (no joke!)- something I thought I would never be able to do in the 40 years of playing piano with 100% reliance on rote memory and sheet music!
In theory, no. However, it is very useful to learn it as when you get on to harder pieces, it will be useful to know your time signatures and things like that. When I did Grade 5 theory, it was a pain and I cried over it but now, I thoroughly understand every bit of music and how the music should be played. It pays off. But if you don't want to do it, you will be able to learn music, it just won't be as easy. As I said, when you get on to harder pieces, it will make it much easier to understand the music, not just the notes, if you learn theory. It is a useful thing to know but it is not essential.
I started playing piano 4 weeks ago and I know the basics, but I can only read chords. How long does it take to learn sheet music(is it worth it?), so that I can play songs without needing to use youtube tutorials? And does anybody have any tips on where to start?
As I'm learning piano without any teacher due to lack of resources, I wanted to know what techniques other people employ to read sheet music without much effort. For example, right now, I use the landmarking systemto read as fast I can, but I still feel like it's not that "natural" and spontaneous. Also, I want to know how to read music which requires both hands. Looking at two staves is very very tough for me.
One particular difficulty is in finding your place in the score again after you've looked down at your hands. (Note that every pianist looks down at their hands at some stage in learning a piece - the effortlessness you see in the concert hall hides the hundreds of hours of practice which created it). Pay a lot of attention to bar-lines; be aware of which bar you "are" in, in which system on the page. (A "system" is a number of staves linked together because they're played simultaneously. For an orchestral score it might be up to 50 staves - for piano music it's almost always 2. Piano sheet music tends to have about 4-6 "systems" per page).
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