| LearnJazzPiano.com archives: Playing between songs | |
| GaryLewisburg -- 05/01/2005, 20:47:11 -- #13449 | |
| When I here the local cocktail pianist playing he will play softly between the songs. He will stop one song, play around on the keys and then a mimute of two later will start and play another song. What is he playing between songs? | |
| ziggysane -- 05/01/2005, 21:05:26 -- #13450 | |
| Likely noodling on modulations using secondary dominants. | |
| 7 -- 05/01/2005, 22:32:34 -- #13452 | |
| Or possibly riffing on a turnaround, while he decides what to do. Many turnarounds contain for their second chord a diminished 7th. The abundance of tendencies in those chords make it easy to effect a key change. A typical turnaround in the key of F would be: | Fmaj7 Fdim7 | Gm7 C7 | This turnaround brings you back to the F at the top of the verse. If you wanted to go to some other key instead, simply substitute the the | Gm C7 | for | ii V | of the new key: | Fmaj7 Fdim7 | ii V | I ... It works like magic. | |
| Dr. Whack -- 05/01/2005, 23:09:57 -- #13454 | |
| I sometimes just plunk around on some chords until a song pops into my head...more commonly referred to as "noodling" as mentioned above...eventually some key or voicing will remind me of a tune (I hope) | |
| marksdg -- 05/02/2005, 12:51:14 -- #13468 | |
| 7, I tried that pattern, and you are right, it does work well for key modulations. | |
| Scot -- 05/02/2005, 13:49:24 -- #13472 | |
| Like they said, he could be playing almost anything. Normally just a standard chord progression. I do that when people come up and want to talk to me- if I'm in a conversation that I want to remember and sound intelligent in, I really can't be playing a tune, so I just vamp on some cool chords that my fingers know until it's time to really play again. Personally I prefer not to run songs together as some lounge pianists do. I like to start and finish a song, even if it is background music. | |
| Mike -- 05/04/2005, 04:46:58 -- #13519 | |
| probally playing real music | |
| 7 -- 05/05/2005, 02:04:44 -- #13555 | |
| marksdg, You're welcome. | |
| Jazz+ -- 05/05/2005, 09:33:31 -- #13558 | |
| Most often I VI ii V | |
| 7 -- 05/05/2005, 12:05:16 -- #13563 | |
| Note that the I-iș7-ii-V turnaround I mentioned above is little more than a variant of the I-vi-ii-V progression. Because iș7 = viș7. | |
| SolArt -- 06/21/2005, 16:11:15 -- #15378 | |
| I'm with you Scot, I don't like songs running into each other either. It's more complete to have an intro & a real ending. From the live pianists I've heard, I don't know why many end their pieces pretty much the same, such as playing up a 13th#11 chord to the very top. On good grands the lowest note of the key often sounds so bomb-like great for a possible ending. What makes one's playing interesting is to NOT be too predictable. Here's a trick that really gets people's attention for a WAKE-UP intro when you first start a set; Hold down the sustain pedal & starting on that lowest "A" run up a chromatic scale just as fast as you possibly can 'til way up high, let the cacophony ring a bit, then start 'cha song! | |
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