Play the Blues Overnight: Composer & Performer Patty Carlson Shows You How - Lesson 2, Sequel to Play the Piano Overnight (Applies to Synthesizers and Other Keyboard Instruments) [VHS]
Play the Blues Overnight: Composer & Performer Patty Carlson Shows You How - Lesson 2, Sequel to Play the Piano Overnight (Applies to Synthesizers and Other Keyboard Instruments) [VHS] Reviews
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: The Patterns of Music, By Yeysk (MD) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase( What's this?) This review is from: Play the Blues Overnight: Composer & Performer Patty Carlson Shows You How - Lesson 2, Sequel to Play the Piano Overnight (Applies to Synthesizers and Other Keyboard Instruments) [VHS] (VHS Tape) As a run-of-the-mill pianist, I'm a sight-reader only, meaning that if the music isn't in front of me, I can't play. People who play by ear and improvise cool sounds seem mysterious and genius to me. I always wanted to unlock the secret of improv but the instructional books I bought demanded that I become a scholar of musical theory -- and still I can't remember how many sharps there are in the key of A! This video is different: it really had me improvising music within minutes. How? With a series of simple patterns that you can combine, alternate, play an octave higher or lower, and repeat. She tells you the notes that go together and the notes that don't. It was thrilling! I finally "get" what my play-by-ear friends were trying to tell me: music is all patterns! The video is well shot - shows her fingers in first-person perspective (that is, as if her fingers were your fingers) - and she demonstrates the patterns more than once, slowly, before putting it all... Read more |
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