How to make the music feel likes its moving in a swaying back and forth. At the beginning of Chopin's Minute Waltz, the bass line goes back and forth between D flat and F. All while remaining in the same key and chord inversion. The D flat feels grounded because it is the root position of the D flat chord. And the F feels likes its floating because it's the first iversion of the chord. Going back and forth creates a swaying feel. This works well to lean into the feel of a wal

How to make the melody feel like is gliding or floating or sliding. The beginning of Chopin's Minute Waltz includes a classic reapeating melody: G, A flat, C, B flat. This is 2 beats or 4 eigth notes. When it begins its played on top of a classic waltz bass line that is 3 beats or 3 quarter notes. That means the melody ends while there is still more of the bass line to play. So we go right back into repeating the melody again as we finish off the bass line. And now when we st

The biggest feedback I get from my music so far is that the sound of the piano is harsh and it doesn't sound good. Fixing this is a combination of finding new sample library plugins and adjusting settings like color, tone, reverb, dynamics, eq, delay, attack, wetness, dryness, ratio, compression, etc. I hate it. I really hate it. I've tried so many things and it never sounds like the great music I hear from other pianists on Spotify. I wish I could just get it to work and be

This journal entry is about 2 things. 1. Learning to read music while playing the piano. 2. Studying Chopin's composition and applying principles to my own peices. I'm a little embarresed and sad about how much time I spend learning to play the piano growing up but I never did learn how to read music. I was more interested in being able to play specific songs that I could memorize. I wish I had taken the time to learn to read better. It's a little like typing on a computer