An Article on New Age Piano Playing

by Pianist/Composer Edward Weiss

How to Create Your Own

Piano Meditation!
By Edward Weiss

Published by
Quiescence Music
 How to Create Your Own Piano Meditation!

Appealing and attractive, the New Age piano genre has become welcomed
into the homes of millions of people around the world. And why not? It's a
beautiful music that has an honest, heartfelt approach.

And it's easy to create on your own! No extensive theory or training is

required to play what you feel. On the contrary, a few chords and a simple
melody are all that is necessary and the complete beginner can start
creating music.

For example, in Lesson 56: "Piano Meditation," which is actually a workbook

exercise from the book "New Age Piano Made Easy," we have a few chords
to play. And we have a technique that we use throughout the improvisation
called broken chord. Here we use both hands and something called open
position chords to create the sound you hear.

Watch a Free Piano Meditation at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWEKTjlhSQM

All of this is played over a 8 bar framework. The chord changes come every
few bars and this is indicated on the chord chart in the workbook. It's an
easy map to follow. These simple materials are used to create music with. In
fact, you could actually create complete pieces of music using these
materials alone!

The beauty of the New Age piano style is that it offers the beginning (and
advanced) piano student an accessible approach to the world of
improvisation and composition.

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music's

online piano lessons. Visit http://www.quiescencemusic.com now and get a
FREE piano lesson

Warmest wishes,
Edward Weiss
Quiescence Music