[LAU] [Music] The Silver Walks

[jonetsu at teksavvy.com]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:29:16 +0100
Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 06:12:38 -0400
> Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > The lead was composed note by note, as is my usual way. Imagine a 
> > keyboardist with no hands, that's the level of playing ability I
> > have on the musical keyboard. :)  I do envy the real players here
> > like Steve D and Luigi.
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > dp
> 
> A suggestion:
> 
> Try playing just a single phrase of melody against a click track.
> After a few practices, start recording and continue to play. Take one
> of the *middle* phrases you recorded. Rinse & repeat.
> 
> After a while you'll find you can do it with longer phrases, and
> (hopefully) eventually a whole track and, especially for ambient
> stuff, dispense with the click track.
> 
> Just my 2d old money :)

As for me, I simply let the fingers (of mostly one hand) run across
the keyboard.  If they don't hit notes in a way that is either
musically or rhythmically sensical, then I try to adjust the aim.
Whatever melody or phrase that is 'brought to life' comes from this.
Not from trying to play something that was defined before the playing
began, for most of the time when phrases or melodies are concerned.

The musical and rhythmical playing then comes from the whole of the
music itself and not from a lone click track.  When I was a kid I took
perhaps 20 weeks of simple classical piano lessons, learning perhaps
2-3 very simple Bach pieces (that seemingly his wife has composed) and
that was it.  Each time I had to play against the metronome flowers
faded. But when I could just play without a restriction, then
inspiration bloomed.  Now I mostly feel OK playing against a click track
but it took me a long time to get to grasps with that.

Cheers.