Lesson 1: Learn to Improvise with piano
This is first first lesson of Keyboard Accompaniment Course. You need some years of piano playing experience to understand this course. You don't have to have any experience in improvising at all. This gentle and genre-free course will help you to develop you improvisational skills at piano, including improvising pieces as well as accompaniments.
The first lesson is for you, if you have some classical piano lessons or if you have ever wondered, how some people can play without reading sheet music. Where to start? What to practise?
This lessons give you tools to start easily, imitating music, using just a few notes or other elements to start with you improvisations. You will have rhythmic backgrounds to support your playing. Hopefully you want to continue with the course!
This course is based on the book Keyboard Accompaniment and Improvisation, which is available in English, Chinese, German, French, Finnish and Polish. Please send your feedback to the author info(at)keyboardacc.com.
https://youtu.be/5Rfa9-u-Voc?si=DNcMz3mg2L7Zj4pyJyrki Tenni
Creativity and improvisation are central to Jyrki Tenni’s work as a piano teacher and music educator. He has published several text books on the topic of keyboard accompaniment and is regarded as the most successful Finnish author for piano literature. While at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, he developed new progressive methods for teaching piano improvisation and keyboard accompaniment. He works as a song accompanist and runs his own music school in Helsinki.
In the first lesson of the course you will learn how to start your first improvisations, how to practise them and how to develop them.