janko performance

[gguitarwilly]

hi guys,

Just recorded a piano piece on Janko.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDhmkt5vFO8

Willem

[Corky Peavy]

Nice!   I'm amazed how natural and relaxed your fingering looks.  

[gguitarwilly]

Thanks! I must say this piece lends itself very naturally to the Janko.

I've found some pieces to be more challenging than others concerning fingering.

How's your keyboard playing?

Willem

Op vrijdag 6 mei 2016 08:54:57 UTC+2 schreef Corky Peavy:

[Corky Peavy]

Mine is very slow.   I asked my sister who has a music degree, and she said non-musicians have no idea how much time musicians spend learning to play!   So I don't really know if I'm slower than normal.  She suggested a progression:

* just a melody, right hand

* adding single note harmonies with left hand in time with melody

* add additional notes to the left hand, and or vary the timing off the melody notes

* add more notes besides melody with right hand (I think)

I'd been trying to play chords with left and melody with right.  For very simple things I can sort of do that poorly.

Of course there is all the stuff about how to notate things, and incorporate other people's music which is challenging at my level, so more often I use a little used chord notation from Wikipedia that some universities use and just create my own chords by ear.

I want to make a horribly embarrassing video so some of you who have gone before can offer suggestions for a rank beginner.   

[gguitarwilly]

Hi Corky,

A few suggestions:

- get to know the major scale and the three basic chords linked to it: in C this would be C F G7

- play children's songs using only the chords C F G(7) . Find the melody by ear, than play with chords right, melody left. Amazingly useful.

- play songs out of a pop/jazz book with chord names

-give Clairnote a try. This notation is very well suited to the Janko layout, because the octave is split in two groups of six notes that are coloured black and white.

Even if you would just use it to notate chords it would be worth the trouble of learning. But then also notating simple melodies is useful.

good luck! Willem

Op zondag 22 mei 2016 08:21:14 UTC+2 schreef Corky Peavy:

[Joseph Austin]

Willem, 

Very nice. You look comfortable.  I didn't see any awkward hand positions.

Joe

[Joseph Austin]

Corky, 

The best  bit of advice I got from a music teacher and found it works:

Play EVERY DAY! Even if only a few minutes, on those days you "have no time.". Just one time thru that song you are working on, or a scale or chord progression.  And those "two minutes" will often turn into a longer session.

(When I travel, I sometimes take a mini keyboard along, or now I use a keyboard app on my iPad (Shiverware makes a Janko-capapbel app).

Of course you will need longer daily sessions to make progress. But sometimes we just can't fit it in a whole hour.

But if you skip days because you "don't have time", you will end up skipping more and more days, then weeks,

then months and years go by and you wonder why you "never" make progress.

Another thing I learned over the years, switching from method to method and instrument to instrument:

no method will work if you don't stick with it!

Another thing I discovered on piano:  After playing everything in C for a year, I could suddenly "play by ear" to some extent.

I think that will happen automatically on Janko because all keys are the same!

You will learn to associate the sound with the "feel". Or on Janko, with the shape.  

Especially if you practice playing with your eyes closed.

Joe