My Very First Hymn Improvising Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 25 сен 2009
- Keep in mind...there are exceptions when applying this concept. Such as: when the tenor is too far from the top note (melody note)
See this video for exception: • Piano Improvising Tip
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I've been looking for videos just like these for 10 years.. they're so helpful!
I found this very helpful. I've been reading your website posts for quite some time now,
but watching you do this is an added bonus. Thanks a lot!
Jennifer, Thanks a million for sharing this. This is my 1st Eureka moment. I always wondered how the smart pianist improvise and I dream of that day I'm able to. I teach myself so this really, really helps. God bless you Jennifer for selflessly sharing your God-given talents.
I’ve been trying to figure this out forever! I’ve watched all 3 lessons you did on this, Thank you so much for this!!!
Glad it helped! :)
O.my..same to me here.. HOW thankful I am to Teacher Jenn.. That I could Finally Understand This.. TQ Lord
This is the most helpful help in piano hymn playing from a hymn book I have found thus far. Thank you so much!! I can play all the hymn book songs as written but never taught that that was for singers only. Thanks a million. I have a long ways to go but with your utube help I will get there!
Thank you for posting this. I've been searching for an improv teacher for my daughter and it isn't so easy to find one. What a blessing!
Thank you very much
Thank you Thank you, what a beautiful lesson.
Finally I have an answer for what I had been searching for months. Thank you
I’ve really learnt a lot from you with this video
Wonderful - thank you so much . Thanks, thanks,thanks Jenifer
Thank you!! This makes total sense to me!!
Very interesting.....in my 26 years of playing the piano, I've never seen bass clef harmonic octave stems point up......all technicalities aside, your arranging style is beautiful, I've enjoyed your videos.
Very interesting and helpful! Glad I found your channel.
Great teaching tip! I plan to use this for some of my students. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for making my day
Excellent basic lesson. Feels like it would fit well into verse two.
Tq Teacher For being here for so long.. And I just found you today..You're The Best!!, hates to see the 10 dislikes who failed to see d Diamond inside this Jewel Quest💎💎😂
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Doesn't involve very much but does a great job making a piece sound fuller...
Thanks! Very good instruction!
Thank you...glad it was a help! :)
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!
Great stuff. Thanks
Thank you.
@musicisfun4u Thanks for your comments ;) As far as the stems on the left hand octaves...I follow the guidelines from "The Art of Engraving & Processing" book and place my stems accordingly. Here's the stem rule as stated from this book: "When two notes share a stem, the direction of the stem is determined thus: 1) If the interval below the middle line is greater than the interval above the middle line, the stem goes up.
Thank you!
@MsBmiller
I do plan on creating more tutorials as time allows this summer. Some of them will be available in my online music store.
you are awesome
Hallo Jen!!! Excellent stuff this, enjoyed tremendously. Thing I have been looking for...I can read music comfortably but I could not figure out how it is done. Please give directions how I can start piano lessons with you. Am waiting patiently.
Thanks for your feedback on this hymnprovising lesson! Sorry I can't be of further help. I don't have any openings at the moment. I periodically post new (Free tutorial videos) on my website
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Thank you for taking your time to respond. My gut feeling is you're great teacher Jennifer, pity there is no opening for you, as you put it to me. Alternatively I will keep on visiting your website. Thank you once more.
Really good explanation
Thanks Willy :)
Wonderful tutorial.
Thank you :)
Do you have the other tutorials up? I am happy you are offering this.
I taugth piano myself and that is what I do, improvise and also alter some chords with accidentals, minor chords and sounds just fine. It bores me when somebody just play the four notes. Music has 7 notes and so are 7 colors, make a nice musical painting.
Hi cirlind.....this video is geared to the church pianist just learning to add to hymns from the hymnal. I was only sharing my very first improvising lesson that I received many years ago! :)
So much more to share but like to to do so in small increments.
@musicisfun4u Thank you :)
Where have you been Madam? I enjoyed your other lessons you did sometime ago. Thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this video, it helped me a lot about on where am I going to start, until after seeing this 😊 ..
Great! Glad to hear it's a help to you! :)
@@jenofhickory can I apply this to all hyms, whenever I am going to play?
@@salvehmagallanes2210Exception: For busier rhythms...this style wouldn't be played for every word...more like on the accented beats.
@@jenofhickory i applied this improvising to the Hymn entitled More about Jesus, did I chose the right song?
Ah....same concept can be used but....6/8 hymns like More About Jesus are busier so the 5 part style (3 notes in the right hand and 2 notes (octave)in left hand...would bogg down the tempo if played on every word) For 6/8 timing...apply the 5 part style on the 1st and 4th beat of each measure. The 1st and 4th beat are the natural accented beats in 6/8 timing and therefore should sound more full on the accented beats.
i'm just learning to read music and play piano...something I've wanted to do for my entire life, but life didn't go the way I'd hoped. I played a little bit by ear...at my age, 67, i'm finding it almost impossible to learn bass clef, but slowly but surely...I wish my parents had done something for me...lts a very sad part of my life...had I been given piano lessons then, when I begged for years and years from time I was 4...anytime I got near a piano or keyboard, I would play melodies i'd make up in my head...never banged on the piano keys...people would tell my folks that I was gifted and should be given lessons...that never happened...after the death of my lifelong dearest friend, Lolita, my husband bought me a beautiful Bosten/Steinway 6ft Grand piano, then had a QRS player and sound system and also a recording strip...so I can record what I play and keys move up and down and I can play along, adding a lot more "hands" to my music...i can also add "violin strings" to my songs and make it beautiful...at least to me...thanks for sharing this info...blesssings to you!
What a beautiful gift from your husband! Glad this video can be of some help to you! :) God bless your piano learning! :)
Can you do a video on when to use the pedal in a piece? I’m new trying to learn to play in church. Thank you
Sure....already have one :) ruclips.net/video/OLZKMXjOSs0/видео.html
Learning notes is difficult
This is exactly the way I was taught to play hymns when I started playing out of the hymnal......brings back so many memories.
I like how you drew it all in on a piano score, that's a great visual for 1st time improvisers. I'm just wondering why you drew the stems going up on the bass clef octaves? I'm a piano teacher and I'm a stickler with my students on correct notation and knowing which way to turn the stems :)
Hola, no hablo Ingles pero me parecen interesantes los videos, saludos
Gracias. Lo siento pero no hablo espanol.
What do you do if there is more than an octave spacing between the tenor and soprano notes? It seems like this only works if the particular hymn you are arranging has a narrow range between the tenor and soprano voices. I have a hymn book and want to be able to play the hymns on piano but I don't think I can use it for this reason.
Excellent question! I will give answer asap with a video tutorial..thanks again!
Thank you so much Jenifer. I want to get started playing/arranging hymns but don't really know where to begin. I've mostly just played classical music on piano but I've never actually played hymns before. I also don't have any experience in improvising either. I do have some knowledge of harmony though (I'm attracted to the sound of smooth voice leading that you see in four part harmony). I'm not a super advanced pianist but I'm trying my best. I don't really have aspirations of becoming a church pianist but it would be nice to be able to play piano at church get togethers and at home for my own enjoyment (mostly interested in solo piano as I don't see myself doing any singer accompaniments). Any advice is certainly appreciated (pieces that I could try and learn from your website). My playing ability is somewhere in the intermediate to early advanced level.
@@ryanhenderson6815 I've answered your question in following video :) Thanks for asking! ruclips.net/video/OZ83m9u-t2I/видео.html
Good beginner effort at arranging, Jenifer, but this is definitely not improvising. Where is the freedom from the notation? I would have liked to hear you actually improvise and show how it's done - that is, the techniques that you use to build new melodies, which is what improvisation on a theme involves. However, to learn arrangement is a necessity for the traditional church pianist, more so than improvisation. So, thank you for my very first lesson in arranging a hymn and may God bless you.
Hi Ann :) Just to let you know....this video is geared to the church pianist just learning to add to hymns from the hymnal. I was only sharing my very first improvising lesson that I received many years ago! :)
So much more to share but like to to do so in small increments.