Ambient Piano Study/Improvisation #9 (Timing)

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It's been a couple of months since my last video, so I wanted to get a new one up. This is an exercise/practice that I've been forgetting to do for a while (and it shows - I'm pretty sloppy), but it has really helped me in improving my timing by playing this to a metronome at 150bpm (I had the metronome playing in my headphones but not in the master output). Need to be careful of this practice and give your fingers a rest (and a shake) if they start tingling and getting fatigued.
This is a similar study/practice to study #3 that I did back in November 25 2023, but this one focuses more on timing, while being musical and open for improvisation.
Tempo: 150bpm
Piano: The Gentleman (Kontakt)

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@TheLighthouse-111 Месяц назад

In this exercise I'm generally just playing a varying improvised sequence with the right hand in the A min key, mostly C, D, E, G, A. While doing a simple two note/dyad chords in the left hand A+E primarily, G+E, F+C (you can add occasional D+E and modulate to a Bb+F sometimes for variation).

@v1s10nray Месяц назад

Listening to this beautiful music in the beautiful highlands of Scotland.

@PianoImprovVlogger Месяц назад

Absolutely beautiful for a Sunday morning. ❤

@7willymak Месяц назад

Simple is all you need sometimes :)

@deafalienzulu Месяц назад

nice

@DEO777 Месяц назад

👍 Reminds me of Radiohead - Daydreaming.

@moonandmelodies Месяц назад

👍

@DavGreg Месяц назад

Very nice. Notice that you have the Expressive E Touché. Have bought one but have not incorporated it into my playing yet. Would be nice to see how you employ it.

@TheLighthouse-111 Месяц назад

Thank you. I didn't use the Touche for a long time, I was almost about to sell it, because I didn't have room on my desk. But it's back there now. I'm not sure myself how I'll employ it!

@davidknight754 Месяц назад

Can I ask if you are following a guide or instruction somewhere on this kind of thing? I'd love to practice, but doing general scales without playing something musical like this is torture. I know there are hacks to make practice interesting, and it seems like you have this well in hand.

@TheLighthouse-111 Месяц назад

Hi David. No guide at all. I've been developing different practice techniques for myself to target specific areas in my playing that I feel need improving, while also being fun, musical and open to simple improvisation. This one is quite simple, but I should have probably put the overlay keyboard graphic on the video so that you could see the notes. I'll add pinned comment explaining what I'm doing.

@synkrotron Месяц назад

hiya, Pat 👋 just having my breakfast and seeing what is in my feed this morning and saw this, so my first wake up input I know this is a practice piece but to me it sounded really nice then I read your comment about being sloppy and I listened again in more detail and was there a couple times where you caught a couple of notes by mistake? difficult to tell really, and if I hadn't read that comment I wouldn't have noticed at all cheers, and thank you for sharing, andy 🙂

@TheLighthouse-111 Месяц назад

Hey Andy! Glad you liked this. It's mostly my timing that's quite sloppy, if you could hear the metronome, you'd hear it but as I mentioned I haven't been practicing this exercise for quite a while, and for timing it does seem to me at least that you need to practice this fairly regularly to a metronome to stay precise. I'll add it to my daily practice again now :)

@synkrotron Месяц назад

@@TheLighthouse-111 ah, okay, yeah, without a metronome or beat there's no way we could spot that and I've been practicing my timing since 1979 and I'm still crap!! hence the beat-less drones and noodling haha

@TheLighthouse-111 Месяц назад

@@synkrotron Haha...I've been practicing a couple of decades myself and still crap! Though to be honest, I've very rarely done any kind of practice to a metronome, and that's really why the sloppiness. When I was in my early 20s and in a band, my timing eventually became very good!

@synkrotron Месяц назад

@@TheLighthouse-111 yeah, playing in a band does tend to focus the mind a bit... I was amazed I was never sacked though... 🤣

@TheLighthouse-111 Месяц назад

@@synkrotron 🤣