Composition & Improvisation

I have a student who has just started F2, had done 4 arrangements. She is learning a few other instruments as well. She is a fast learner, able to play the new songs hands together immediately after I show her. She has asked me to…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• Accompaniment‏, arrangements, composition, foundation duets, Gordon Harvey, improvisation, learning a new way of learning, other songs, playlist management, songs outside the repertoire, variations

Recently at a friend’s place my daughter Niluka, came crying to me holding one hand in the other. A young girl, about six years old, had dropped the piano lid on Niluka’s fingers while she was playing the piano for a few others in the…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• benefits of improv, black notes, C&I, comp & improv, duets, FL6, Foundation 6, Home, improvisation, Level 6, pentatonic

Just thought I’d share an idea I got from a workshop I attended on composing. It relates to setting poems to music. The teacher was actually talking about using words that are not yet in poetic form where you have to start by creating the…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• composition, improvisation, poems