Friday, September 26, 2008

Daily piano tip #23.

Breathe when you play, like a singer.

It makes all the difference.

Take singing lessons if you can afford it and they are available.

5 comments:

  1. Wow, ... I'm a singer ... and a pianist ... and I never ever saw it in that light ...

    Why should a pianist be conscience of his/her breathing when playing? To be relaxed? So that s/he doesn't get into shallow breathing?

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  2. So that your phrasing is more natural. Legato and cantabile and phrasing are more of an illusion on the piano than in other instruments, since we can't do a true legato. And many pianists also play a long note without following it through in their mind of having an idea of the actual action behind a long note or a long phrase that a string or a wind player has to have.

    Breathing with the music helps you have a natural rhythmic impulse and phrasing. Another thing influenced by it is legato, which is as much a matter of touch and volume as it is of just playing two notes one after another without a discernible gap.

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  4. Joan I don't understand ... so you feel that you know what there is to know from the Daily piano tips? Or not?

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