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Is it possible to improvise on the piano in a classical manner? This piano lesson will help you find out how to cultivate this art and the benefits you reap as a pianist!

Jazz piano improvising is an established art nowadays and much have been written on how to develop improvisational skills in this area.

What about classical piano improvisation?

Many of the methods used for learning jazz piano improvisation can be applied in classical piano improvisation as well.

Many composers like Johann Sebastian Bach, W.A. Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn, Fr d ric Chopin and others were actually more famous for their improvisational skills during their lifetime.

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Piano improvisation in a classical music way is an interesting complement to ordinary piano improvisational practicing. Let me suggest a way to practice!

Piano sheet music is a means and not an end. It’s a way to notate what to play on the piano.

You can find a lot of interesting passages in classical piano solos. These solos can help you collect improvisational material to work on to make your piano improvisations more interesting.

How to develop your classical piano improvisational skills?

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How would you like to spend 4 years in a University learning how to play other peoples music? If you think this is ridiculous, you’re right! Because that’s what thousands of piano music students do each day.

They sit in front of their piano or keyboard with sheet music of a dead composer in front of them. Then they are told to “play it right.” Have you ever heard of such nonsense? Imagine a budding writer forced to copy another novelists work? In essence, this is what classical piano students do. They copy.

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Do you know how long it takes to learn the piano? Well, depending on the style you’re interested in, it could take up to 10 years! That’s if you go the classical note-reading route.

But, if you want to learn piano online the easy way and save yourself years of struggle, learn a chord-based approach first. Sure, note reading is the way most teachers suggest you start out. They reason that you need to read the language of music before you can actually play or create it on your own. Wrong! You don’t need to learn note reading to play the piano. All you really need is knowledge of a few chords and how to play them. And this information is

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