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This Weeks Article:
Creating a
Broken Chord
Piano Improvisation
by Edward
Weiss
There are
really only two ways you can play chords on the piano - as
solid or broken. While solid chords are nice, it's the arpeggio or
broken chord that students love to play. Cascading notes shimmer and
glide up and down the piano keyboard to create a waterfall of
sound!
Creating a broken chord piano improvisation
need not be difficult. All that you need to know is
what chords to play and how to create the broken chord sound.
Knowing the chords you will play is the easy part. Creating the
broken chord sound can present some with problems. These problems
can be easily overcome if we start out by using a special chord
structure known as the open position chord.
Here, both hands are used to create a modern sounding seventh
chord. The left hand gets the root, fifth, and seventh of the chord
while the right takes care of the third and seventh as well. With
this chord structure, the beginner can create that beautiful lush
sound right away!
We can begin in the left hand and go up to play what is called
an ascending piano run, or we can begin in the
right and go down. We can alternate fingers back and forth to create
different textures and use the notes under our fingers to explore a
whole new world of broken chord possibilities.
For example, in the lesson Forest's Edge, we use open position chords
in the Key of B Major to create an ascending broken chord run. Both
hands are used to create it. The right plays melody notes as well.
The amazing thing about this lesson is that it sounds a lot more
difficult than it actually is to play.
Of course, broken chords can be played using triads, closed
position chords, and any number of infinite chord varieties. But by
using the open position chord first, students can quickly create a
modern broken chord sound right
away.
 Until next
week,
Edward Weiss
Quiescence Music
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