{"id":152,"date":"2019-03-15T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-16T15:04:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T23:04:57","slug":"finding-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/finding-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Inspiration At The Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you ever sit down at your piano to play and improvise, but find that you&#8217;re lacking inspiration? You know you want to express something, but you aren\u2019t sure what that is?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are some ideas from Jordan on how he finds inspiration when he sits down in front of the piano and just wants to make music.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forget all about sheet music and music theory and&nbsp;find an actual picture of something that&nbsp;inspires you visually.&nbsp;Ideally, that picture&nbsp;sparks ideas or feelings&nbsp;you can translate from your head to the piano.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jordan\u2019s example involves a flame and a snowflake. The flame evokes feelings of warmth and comfort, which might mean you play warm 7th chords and happy major chords. It may also bring to mind a forest fire, which could suggest frantic arpeggios and&nbsp;minor chords. Contrast that with a snowflake, and suddenly you&#8217;re playing delicately &#8211; you might play higher up on the keyboard with broken arpeggios and a lighter touch. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea is to tell a story about whatever you&#8217;re using for inspiration.&nbsp;Choosing more than one picture to help you contrast your feelings and sounds can really help you create an epic and inspired improvisation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What pictures will you use for inspiration the next time you sit down at the piano?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/weekly-email\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most inspiring piano lesson ever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108],"tags":[1069],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musicianship","tag-gsotp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10517,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/10517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}