How to Improvise / Compose a Prelude From Scratch

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @richardk1598
    @richardk1598 2 роки тому +45

    These videos are so impressive and helpful. I personally believe this style of pedagogy and teaching based on partimenti, thorough bass, faux-bourdon etc is the closest teaching now to those from conservatories 200+ years ago. This material is invaluable

  •  2 роки тому +3

    Among other reasons, like the educational and entertainment value, and general usefulness, irredeemable nerdism is a very important component that makes these videos so great.

  • @MusicaAngela
    @MusicaAngela 2 роки тому +10

    This was awesome! I love all your insights especially your reasoning for using 9ths on weak beats. This is not 18th century music after all! I've always loved what Schumann did with those 9ths. Bravo on your incredible skill and insights!

    • @en-blanc-et-noir
      @en-blanc-et-noir  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks, Angela. Your so kind! Yeah, that dissonances: I was like going nuts about this topic just recently and checked a lot of baroque examples and found out - and it was actually kinda surprising - that it happens very seldomly, up to never, that in a piece that's in 2/4 or 4/4 the standard suspensions 2, 4, 7, 9 fall on a weak part of the bar - even not when the overall rhythmic shape is a stream of 16ths and the 8th positions become "relative strong beats". I was really checking this kinda systematically and found just very few examples that derive from that: the 7ths I found where in nearly all cases dominant 7ths, not supended 7ths, so that's obviously a different case then. And I'm talking about 18th century music, not romantic... I'd say that it's typicall to find stuff like that in Schumann and I bet one wouldn't find sth like this in a Chopin piece as he was more thoroghly trained in basic counterpoint and especially young Schumann just came up with... what he liked - be it based on theoretical foundations or not :DD love this guy!

    • @en-blanc-et-noir
      @en-blanc-et-noir  2 роки тому

      Thank you, Angela! :D

    • @McKayJustin
      @McKayJustin 2 роки тому +2

      Great video, as always! I think in the Schumann piece the way he uses that sequence perfectly expresses the drowsy moment when you’re falling asleep. You can really imagine this happening in the Schumann household: the father is the tenor, and he makes the child sing canonic imitation until they suddenly fall asleep (I think that’s why it ends like that)

    • @en-blanc-et-noir
      @en-blanc-et-noir  2 роки тому

      @@McKayJustin 100 percent agree!

    • @MusicaAngela
      @MusicaAngela 2 роки тому

      @@McKayJustin That's a wonderful image Justin!

  • @bluemoon3779
    @bluemoon3779 2 роки тому +3

    You have such a good channel, it's such a shame that you are not know!! You deserve more than this!!!! Vraiment, BRAVO!!

  • @volkanaydin4869
    @volkanaydin4869 2 місяці тому

    This channel is gold ⚜️

  • @tradingwithwill7214
    @tradingwithwill7214 Рік тому +1

    Your videos are amazing. I love the added video editing/humour. I translate this over to guitar as best I can, mostly with 2-3 simultaneous notes in total. Having a structure to improvise over is very helpful, especially the bass notes, a given chord progression and then adding a melody to improvise. The only thing I'd ask for is some notated examples (possibly in the video as it is played) of various short performances that combine various models for different approaches/styles/time sigs.

  • @paulrhodesquinn
    @paulrhodesquinn 9 місяців тому

    Awesome! Just discovered your channel. I have an MA in Jazz from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and have been an improvising musician all my career but only discovered Partimento a year ago. I was looking for ways to take that knowledge of the Galant schemata and apply it to other styles and here you are with just what I was looking for! Thank you so much 🎹😀

  • @luisdiaz05
    @luisdiaz05 2 роки тому +5

    You should write down an improvisation book!😎

    • @en-blanc-et-noir
      @en-blanc-et-noir  2 роки тому +3

      lol, not a fan of improv books, although there is actually one that is quite good: "Compendium Improvisation" by Schwenkreis (Hg.).

    • @luisdiaz05
      @luisdiaz05 2 роки тому

      @@en-blanc-et-noir OK, I will check it out! Thanks. 😎

    • @leej4020
      @leej4020 Рік тому +1

      @@en-blanc-et-noir do you recommend any English improvisation books 😮?

  • @bornaerceg9984
    @bornaerceg9984 2 роки тому +1

    Amazing video, again - and funny! 🥰

  • @axyspianostudio
    @axyspianostudio 2 роки тому +1

    a very underrated vid

  • @BNJ53
    @BNJ53 Рік тому

    Wow it’s so interesting to watch!! If you ever do a series on the fundamentals for noobs, I’ll gladly take the pop corn out!!

  • @DanDanDan-c2w
    @DanDanDan-c2w 11 місяців тому

    this is absolutely mind blowing.

    • @Zimzamzoom95
      @Zimzamzoom95 11 місяців тому

      Proper compositional technique is a new world when you're used to the garbage you get from modern conservatories hey

    • @DanDanDan-c2w
      @DanDanDan-c2w 11 місяців тому

      even more so when i have never had any conservatory training and didn't even realize people can do things like this on the fly haha @@Zimzamzoom95

  • @ivarasplund4265
    @ivarasplund4265 2 роки тому +1

    Very nice!

  • @lerippletoe6893
    @lerippletoe6893 2 роки тому +7

    I will second those comments, if you put many of the things you did and know together to create like an exercise book for creative inspiration to create pieces from models and practice improvising, it would be well worth buying

    • @Michevangelo03
      @Michevangelo03 4 місяці тому

      Indeed that is an amazing idea, I know I would buy it!

  • @jk996music
    @jk996music 2 роки тому +1

    I love your work!! It's really helped with my journey to learning to improvise in a romantic manner. I started learning the Schumann piece you featured because of the lament bass that follows in the opener in the first section and I never realised the ending was the circle of fifths. Again love your work and will definitely practice preluding using your advice thank you !!

  • @SuperJoeyMusic
    @SuperJoeyMusic Рік тому

    Awesome videos.

  • @lerippletoe6893
    @lerippletoe6893 2 роки тому +2

    Forgot to say, check the Schumann Morning Songs #1 for some parts that sound like that level 3 sequence with the added 9ths you did. In his case he has 2nds move in parallel. I don't have any time to compare similarity rn but it sounds like there's something similar about it.

    • @en-blanc-et-noir
      @en-blanc-et-noir  2 роки тому +2

      Epic piece😱 Already a few years ago I pinned it above my desk. Defo among my top 5 single pagers. Yeah, that sequence is spectacularly crunchy and especially that parallel seconds. I‘d say this is some sort of staggered circle of fiths as well…

    • @lerippletoe6893
      @lerippletoe6893 2 роки тому +1

      @En blanc et noir yes it is such a beautiful and satisfying piece I can't even be sure why, but it is as if much more is contained within such a short span. I should probably learn it and analyze the structure and then why he voiced things as they are. Schumann has such a good balance of strict and loose ideas it's fun.

  • @jlbd19
    @jlbd19 8 місяців тому

    Please do some stuff on the style of Prokofiev’s piano sonata’s

  • @frederichwalker3400
    @frederichwalker3400 2 роки тому +2

    Please make a a Patreon so I can throw money at this 🎉
    I need more

  • @santisav2
    @santisav2 2 місяці тому

    Michael do you have a course on theory and composition? If you have id buy it.

    • @en-blanc-et-noir
      @en-blanc-et-noir  2 місяці тому +1

      apart from what‘s available on my patreon I do private lessons…

  • @MartyHirsch
    @MartyHirsch 9 місяців тому

    If I subscribe on Patreon, will I get billed for everything (or the first n items per month) that you publish, whether I want those or not? I am happy to pay for items that interest me, but not for random things as they appear. Is that what happens?

  • @nickpollockpiano
    @nickpollockpiano 11 місяців тому

    ❤❤

  • @patriciarodriguezmartinez3233
    @patriciarodriguezmartinez3233 2 роки тому

    Wow

  • @terryjones6632
    @terryjones6632 2 роки тому +9

    I’m afraid I have to register my biggest complaint about this channel.
    Nowhere near enough videos, and way too long between them.
    Seriously, if you were to offer/supply pdfs of the musical examples straight from the video I’d wager you would get quite a few people giving you five bucks a month as patrons. And you have already created those for the videos….
    Your videos are always looked forward to, thanks very much!

  • @jakubr4634
    @jakubr4634 Рік тому

    I’ve watched a couple of your videos, and I love them already. However, after watching them, I hate the idea of me going back to the piano myself. :/

  • @gogpoydi
    @gogpoydi Рік тому +1

    Sounds like brahms with a hint of chopin