It's much easier where the music is naturally detached. It's also harder in songs where you need more of a sense of line - be prepared to do a few finger substitutions to maintain a good legato. Fitting it in the right hand can work, but you need to be able to bring the tune out over the top, so it requires a bit of independence. When it comes to adding the accompaniment, too, you need a bit of ingenuity. Your ear will tell you how much of the padding you're missing. They're the fundamental building blocks of the whole piece. I usually start with the top and bottom staves - melody and bass. Posted by Balonious Assault at 9:05 PM on July 19, 2011 It's really rewarding to be able to fake your way through a fully orchestrated arrangement solo, and you can totally do it if you have an ear for music.
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You'll hear things that may not be on the sheet music but can be emulated on the piano to get you through difficult parts, and the more you strip the song down to its basics, the more you'll be able to recognize "building blocks" in the full arrangement that you can work with.īest of luck. In my experience, each time you do that you'll learn a little trick that will work on the next song, or the one after that, and before long you'll be faking it like a pro.Īlso, keep listening to the original recording of the song while you're learning it. It doesn't have to be perfect, you'll refine it later. Or just make something up to get through those parts. There's always going to be a few measures where it's just harder than hell to get everything across that needs to be in there. Find the spots where you can play the melody within chords on your right hand, so you can get a little funky in the bass clef. People will hear the melody if they know it, even if you're not playing it note for note. If it's a well known song, parts of the melody can be implied while you play through a difficult piece. Take some liberties with the melody if you need to. Play it that way until you're able to get through all the chord changes without having to rely on the sheet music, then start to incorporate the essential accompaniment elements into the mix.
Melody on the right hand, chords on the left hand. Then forget about that for a little while and strip the song down to the bare bones. Identify and make note of the key parts in the accompaniment that have to be there - bass lines, "hooks", rhythmic elements, etc.
I guess what I'd do (if I could) would be to start off with the sheet music just playing the piano accompaniment while humming the melody along to myself. If you're not going to sing it you're going to have to play it, and that's going to take up a lot (but not all) of your right hand. I'm not much of a pianist, but I am pretty ok at doing this sort of thing on the guitar, so grain of salt and all. posted by kanuck to Media & Arts (4 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite I'm totally open to learning, but would appreciate specific guidance for what I'm trying to do here - ie, learning to re-arrange relatively simple Western pop music. I have a little bit of music theory training, but never got through harmony. Seems like they're usually figuring it out by ear too, which is a whole other skill I'm happy to work on later.) (I see folks putting recordings on youtube doing this sort of thing all the time and I am super jealous. How can I learn to do this? Composition and arrangement is totally new to me, all my training was learning to play the notes on the page. So I figure I need to do some kind of re-arrangement to make this sound good with just a piano and two hands - somehow incorporate the vocal melody line and flesh it out with chords and fills. I'm guessing the intent is for the guitar to be playing the chords, the first treble staff is for the vocalist, and the piano plays the second treble + bass? If I just play the putative piano part, it sounds pretty empty. How can I make this sound good, assuming I'm just playing solo piano and not singing along? Now, pretty much most of the pop sheet music I see looks like this: 3 staves (from top to bottom: 2 treble, 1 bass), with lyrics between the 2 treble staves and guitar chord tabs on top.
I have a decent, though dated classical piano background (~8 years as a child).
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