Dear all,

i have just joined this forum and i find this forum very useful and very good as all those who are interested in music can share thier opinions.

i have stopped piano at Grade 5 at the age of 12 which is more more than 10 years ago. i still have passion for piano but at that time i was still very young. now, i am taking pop music and i find that i need to learn back some of the theories. i find this quite difficult. moreover, all my fingering and time beat is off hand. can anyone give me advice on how to play pop music beautifully?

tks heaps

Phonenix

It's always nice to play pop stuff too, and people will always want to hear it. Do you play pop songs arranged for solo piano, or sing and accompany yourself with chords. I don't sing but have many pop, jazz ballad, folksong arrangements...the thing i find is that you have to look quite hard to find ones that work really well. Beatles stuff is effective in all music styles, the Hal Leonard book of solo arrangements goes from about Grade 4 to 7, and they're excellent.

This question interested me since I am thinking about grade 5 now, but after that I really want to play pop music, or the well known classical pieces. I have done a few pieces with my teacher but he really doesn't want to teach this sort of music. I find I'm playing pieces for my teacher that I never go back to, and want to increase my repertoire of pieces that I actually enjoy playing. Not unreasonable I think!

Although I can thrash about a bit on my own, I want to learn to play the pieces well, and as Phoenix81 has found, it still needs teaching. Modern pieces that I've spent time on with my teacher I can play quite well now, although I am probably getting to the limit of my abilities at Grade 5.

Am I likely to find someone who teaches this style or type of music?
Would it be wrong to go down this line?


A

No you're not wrong at all! It's very reasonable to want to enjoy the repertoire you play, instead of having music you don't want to learn forced on you.

I'm sure there are plenty of teachers out there willing to teach you what you want to learn so I'd go for it

if you have more experience with baroque/classical/romantic pieces, then most of the pop tune arrangements should'nt pose too much of a challenge, at least from a technique perspective, which I don't think is the case when the other way around.