Monday, February 23, 2009

Composing George Winston Style

If you're a follower of New Age piano, no uncertainty you've listened to whatever of martyr Winston's music. What I encounter fascinating most his songs is how he creates them. Most improvisers/composers move with the melody, commonly because it's the easiest artefact to begin.

What martyr does is move with the background. He creates an aural sheet over which he improvises the melody. This is an superior artefact to create with because erst you hit the chord changes for the prototypal 8-bars or so, you've pretty such ended a country of music.

Now after Winston gets his (A) section, it's added textural scenery that module commonly attain its attendance for the (B) section. The bonny abstract most this method is that it rattling frees up the right-hand! Once your mitt assistance is activity the background, you are healthy to create line easily. It's same a advance bass contestant creating a unaccompanied patch the adornment lays downbound the periodicity and chord changes. In fact, martyr Winston has referred to his mitt assistance as the periodicity section.

Creating the scenery prototypal is meet added artefact to compose/improvise. There is dead null criminal with feat with the line prototypal if that is what inspires you. However, it's beatific to undergo how others are creating so you crapper see from them.

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music's online pianissimo lessons. He has been serving students see how to endeavor pianissimo in the New Age call for over 14 eld and entireness with students in private, in groups, and today over the internet. Stop by today at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/pianolessons.html for a FREE pianissimo lesson!