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April 6, 2012

How do you learn to jam on the piano with a rock band?

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Cho_Chang asked:


I know this probably sounds completely stupid, but I’ve have classical piano training for 10 years and friends have asked me to jam, and I have absolutely no idea what to expect/what I’m supposed to do. I’m good at classical piano, I can sight read alright, but when it comes to how music exactly works, I’m lost and I have no idea what I need to work on to not make a fool of myself when jamming. I’ve had some theory, but its very basic. And yes I understand chords and inversions, etc. and I’ve been doing some research and alot of reading.

And how long is this going to take me to learn? I’ve asked my piano teacher and she thought I was crazy to go after this after 10 years of classical training and went into this whole thing about how you have to be musically gifted to improvise/jam and if you aren’t gifted it takes years and years to learn…..

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    hard really, you can either improvise or you cant.

    As a seriously helpful aid, look at playing jazz piano for a little while, a lot of that music requires improvisation in 4-8 bars.

    Never forget though, the rocks main chords are always the 7th.

    Comment by Mike Sanders — May 2, 2008 @ 6:18 am
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    idk ask eddie van halen

    Comment by Ts — May 2, 2008 @ 7:28 pm
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    Really easy actually. Alot of people who play the piano pick up guitar real easy and vice versa because they are so identical to eachother. You can take any chord from a guitar and transfer it to a piano to perfectly match the sound. Ive heard some bada** solos from artists like Pantera and Black Sabbath translated on piano

    Comment by Ryan — May 4, 2008 @ 8:50 pm
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    Practice.
    Learn jazz and blues scales thay are usefull

    Comment by Lachlan W — May 5, 2008 @ 6:59 pm

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