| While most students want to know when to play | | | | you need to be very much IN THE PRESENT and |
| certain notes and chords, it's equally | | | | listen for what's to come. There's no |
| important to know when not to play. For | | | | planning or forethought here except maybe to |
| example, I had a student who knew how to | | | | choose a Key or Mode to play in. Then you |
| improvise and play in the New Age style. What | | | | just improvise.The spaces between the music |
| he didn't know how to do was to allow for | | | | are as important as the music itself. In |
| breathing space. I tried to teach him that | | | | fact, without the spaces, you wouldn't have |
| you don't have to play note upon note but | | | | this style. The spaces define the style of |
| allow for some pauses.Eventually he got it. | | | | music. A lot of New Age pianists emulated |
| He learned how not to rush and that the | | | | Halpern and you can't do better to learn how |
| pauses between notes are as important as the | | | | to master the art of silence than by |
| notes themselves - especially in the New Age | | | | listening to him. Also, check out the |
| style of piano playing. Listen to pioneer New | | | | author's online piano lesson "Oriental |
| Age piano player Steven Halpern to get an | | | | Sunrise" to get another good example of |
| excellent idea of this. Steven literally | | | | "breathing space."Edward Weiss is a pianist |
| defined "breathing space" for music. His | | | | composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music's |
| music floats in the air. It is pure | | | | online piano lessons. He has been helping |
| improvisation and, if you listen to him play, | | | | students learn how to play piano in the New |
| you'll find that' it's one of the easiest | | | | Age style for over 14 years and works with |
| styles to play in.He let's the spaces in | | | | students in private, in groups, and now over |
| between the notes work for him. There's | | | | the internet. Stop by now at for a FREE |
| definitely no rushing here. It's very trance | | | | piano lesson! |
| inducing and calming. To play in this way, | | | | |