![]() ![]() The subtleties of playing with emotion are hard to explain with words. And if they judge you on how you look, they’re not the type of people whose opinions you should care about anyway. Other people don’t care how you look when you play, they care how you sound. Don’t be self conscious about how you look when you play. I have this weird head-shake thing I do a lot when I play… but it helps me get into the zone and play better. But it helps them play the piano more expressively. Some of them have weird facial expressions. You should feel confident with how you look when you play. Sometimes it will feel forced, but eventually you’ll get the hang of it and know how to manipulate your emotions and sound with movement. But if you smile, it also makes you feel happier. Studies show that physical movement affects emotion just as emotion affects physical movement. So when you hear someone playing piano expressively, try to imitate them. People are affected by others emotionally and is not a bad thing, it’s beautiful. And realize too that people imitate others musically all the time sometimes it’s subconscious, they might not even realize it. It’ll sound slightly different than their version, like it’s their version with a twist. ![]() Here’s the thing though, no matter how hard you try to copy someone, it’s still going to have a piece of you in it. Take the things that sound good to you and use them when you play.Ī lot of people are against doing this because they think it’s “copying” other people and it’s not being true to yourself. ![]() Some things you’ll like, some things you won’t. It’s crazy how two versions of the exact same song can sound completely different. Go to YouTube and watch a bunch of different versions of the piece you’re playing. A good trick is to start a phrase slow, speed up slightly into the climax of the phrase, and slow the tempo back down at the end of the phrase. Try gradually speeding up and slowing down with the music. Use that and try to play the staccato in a way that will convey the feel of the song the best. Try to put yourself in the shoes of the composer, think about the emotion he or she is trying to convey. Don’t simply read the staccato dot and just play the note shorter without thinking about it. You can also try accenting different notes to bring them out more.Īrticulation is how staccato or legato you play. Try to feel the harmonies and use that to guide you. You can add swells, or small crecendos/decrecendos in places where it isn’t written. That’s only the first level of dynamics, the beginner’s stage. Seriously, you can learn a lot by just messing around.įor dynamics, don’t simply read the music and play the F parts loud and the P parts soft. Try messing with these three aspects, and experiment with different ways of playing with them. Once you learn the notes of a song, there are really only three elements you can change: dynamics, articulation, and tempo. So how do you learn to play piano expressively? Here are the five main techniques I use to practice playing with emotion: 1. And you learn it just like anything else, by practicing. It’s a completely learnable skill just like you can learn to sightread or learn to play scales. I used to thing it was just “something inside us” or something “some people just had a knack for”. By playing piano expressively you can literally change someone’s emotional state.īut can you learn how to do this? Hell yea. That’s why they say music is the language of emotion. You can literally transfer an emotion you have to another person. The sound moves through the air, hits someone’s eardrum, and is transferred to an emotion they feel. You know what’s truly amazing to me about music? You can feel an emotion, transfer that emotion to movement in your fingers, which transfers it to sound in the air.
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