Bored with the traditional way of learning to play piano? Then don't take piano lessons. "There is a much better and easier way to learn how to play the piano," says Edward Weiss, president of Quiescence Music, who has just written a free report titled "5 Secrets to Playing in the New Age Style."

"Trying to read notes is great if you're going the classical route, but what if you just want to sit down and play your own music?" "There are very few alternatives," says Weiss.

Here are a few of his suggestions:

1. Learn How to Improvise
Learning how to improvise is the key to playing in this style. Period. You must learn to experiment and take musical risks - within certain frameworks of course. You're not going to bang on the keys and expect to make music. This is not the kind of risk I'm talking about. Students thrive best when given a certain set of rules or guidelines to move around with.

2. Develop the proper attitude
This one ties for first place. In my opinion, what stops most students from learning all they can from this style is the attitude that they either aren't good enough, or are not ready to learn how to improvise and play piano.

3. Forget what you were taught
Perhaps you were taught that you must learn your scales first and that you must learn how to read music before you can do anything else. I'm here to tell you that I can't read music, yet somehow, I've been able to put out two CD's of original music! In fact, if anything, reading music will slow you down creatively!

4. Learn chords
You've heard it before. Learn chords and you can make music. Just learn the 144 chords and voila - you can do it all. Don't believe it! You need to learn chords, but you don't need to learn one hundred chords right away. No. You need to learn probably about 3 chords or less to begin improvising in the "new age" style. And if you think that you need to learn more than this at the beginning you are wrong.

5. Learn how to use Chords
Let's assume you've learned a few chords. Now what? What are you going to do with your new chords? You are going to use them to create music with and the best way to do that is to choose a key or mode to play in. This automatically limits your choices.

To read the rest of this report visit Quiescence Music at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/report.html




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