7:20 "What happens when you don't know what to play in an improv?" In regards to what he answers about sometimes you need to buy some time, I would always recommend a V7 chord/harmonic minor scale as a good foundation for a meandering and suspenseful cadenza 😁 and it's often not just about buying time for a mental idea to come along, but sometimes you really do need to just physically relax and recuperate. We musicians are athletes of small muscle groups. Muscles need time for glycogen to recharge and metabolic processes to catch up and that sort of thing. So sometimes it's good to REALLY slow things down to a near halt.....create this idea of slowly building suspense, even though you just need to physically and mentally get refreshed but the audience doesn't know that!
Any serious pianist-composer would benefit tremendously from pursuing PhD in Philosophy or Mathematics, or at the very least, having a very strong grasp of philosophical thinking as well as mathematical thinking. All the great composers utilized math and systems to sound the way they did. There is no such thing as “spontaneously” playing something well on the piano; If you think you “spontaneously” improvised something or composed something that sounds good, you were utilizing systematic rule that are rooted mathematics.
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7:20 "What happens when you don't know what to play in an improv?" In regards to what he answers about sometimes you need to buy some time, I would always recommend a V7 chord/harmonic minor scale as a good foundation for a meandering and suspenseful cadenza 😁 and it's often not just about buying time for a mental idea to come along, but sometimes you really do need to just physically relax and recuperate. We musicians are athletes of small muscle groups. Muscles need time for glycogen to recharge and metabolic processes to catch up and that sort of thing. So sometimes it's good to REALLY slow things down to a near halt.....create this idea of slowly building suspense, even though you just need to physically and mentally get refreshed but the audience doesn't know that!
What should I do if I’m tired in the middle of a piece? I take painkillers. Are you looking forward to a place in the piece to rest?🙂
play slower.
Any serious pianist-composer would benefit tremendously from pursuing PhD in Philosophy or Mathematics, or at the very least, having a very strong grasp of philosophical thinking as well as mathematical thinking. All the great composers utilized math and systems to sound the way they did. There is no such thing as “spontaneously” playing something well on the piano; If you think you “spontaneously” improvised something or composed something that sounds good, you were utilizing systematic rule that are rooted mathematics.