How
to Compose Your Own New Age Piano
Music! by Edward
Weiss
This New Age pianist has been playing piano for over 15 years
now. And while I'm constantly learning new things, the one thing
that's helped me out - as far as composing goes - is looking
at music as sections.
I'm always telling my students to work within an 8-bar framework.
Why? Because it's a nice, neat time space to work in. And, more
importantly, it doesn't overwhelm beginning students who feel they
must come up with 100 bars at their first attempt.
This is exactly how 'December Rain' was
created. All I'm doing here is playing chord changes over
an 8-bar phrase. When you master the 8-bar phrase, you learn how to
complete a section of music. And you learn that the art of
composition has everything to do with repetition and contrast.
There's only so many times you can repeat an 8-bar phrase before
it gets stagnant. Here is where we introduce new material - a
contrasting section. Perhaps another 8-bars or so.
Another
thing I have students do is learn how to create a complete ABA form.
This musical form is the most common one used and it's also quite
easy to create. Once the first 8-bar phrase is complete (the A
section) it's time for some contrast. Maybe 4-bars... perhaps 8 or
more will do the trick here. Then it's back to (A) and voila ... a
complete piano piece is born!
By
the way ... a complete chord chart and
comprehensive notes for December Rain is now
available to course members. I go into complete detail and
show you exactly how it's done - and more
importantly, how you can do it yourself! Get started now by clicking here.
