The power of Improvisation!(with video now, lol)

Yup yup! I have seen some nay-sayers about Improvisation on this forum, so today, I have decided to show them the power of being able to improvise.

I have picked out a very known piece(i think) Pachabels Canon in D, I have never played this piece before, only heard it a few times, so everything I play is on the fly, which means I played it directly after hearing it and I've never played it before. I got the chord progression and I'm gonna play my own interpretion of it in C Major Hope you enjoy

I kind of messed up the video angle... And it can sound a bit mushy sometimes, and I'm not holding down the damper pedal to much, it's just that I had high volume on and the camera was too close to the speaker.. But I guess it will do, I don't want to do a retake because then I'd have played it twice, and that's not an improvisation in my opinion It's cheating!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxSSBPGEv9w

pianohama wrote:Yup yup! I have seen some nay-sayers about Improvisation on this forum, so today, I have decided to show them the power of being able to improvise.

I have picked out a very known piece(i think) Pachabels Canon in D, I have never played this piece before, only heard it a few times, so everything I play is on the fly. I got the chord progression and I'm gonna play my own interpretion of it in C Major Video is on it's way! Hope you enjoy

Fun fun, cant wait to see

pianohama wrote:
I kind of messed up the video angle... And it can sound a bit mushy sometimes, and I'm not holding down the damper pedal to much, it's just that I had high volume on and the camera was too close to the speaker.. But I guess it will do, I don't want to do a retake because then I'd have played it twice, and that's not an improvisation in my opinion It's cheating!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxSSBPGEv9w

Yeah too bad I cant see what you were doing, but it sounded real fresh
I agree something practiced is not a real improvization but everyone needs to start somewhere

The old off topic material has been split to another topic.

Pianohama can post his improvisation here once, then in the future I'd like him to create a single topic for all his performances to be located in. ^_^ thanks!

Now, about your video, it sounds great! very nice I enjoyed listening to it!

Yes, its very impressing that you do what you do on the piano without practice, and just after listnening to it Very, very good
You got some real tallent with the improv. Keep it up!

pianohama wrote: But I guess it will do, I don't want to do a retake because then I'd have played it twice, and that's not an improvisation in my opinion It's cheating!

If you had played it once more, it would have sounded completly different i think... You cant really remember spoton improv corectly anyways, unless its rewhersed. So you could actually improv again, since it would sound like two different songs

I loved those pieces who sounded quite jazzy/bluesy, reminded me more of the LOTR soundtrack at those parts, but I could clearly hear it was Canon.

Great improv, reminds me that I should practise Canon Rock so I can play it 100%,
not to many who have uploaded a video of Canon Rock played on a piano on youtube.

Nively played

Yes This was to prove that with improvisation, you can accomplish anything you'd like in music

wow amazing.. !! and first time played by hearing? WOW!

Waaaaaoh!!! Pachelbel got jazzy at 1:40!!! Great job!

Casyopea wrote:Waaaaaoh!!! Pachelbel got jazzy at 1:40!!! Great job!

Haha yeah, I played it in the wrong scale with purpose btw i wanted some dissonance

pianohama wrote:

Casyopea wrote:Waaaaaoh!!! Pachelbel got jazzy at 1:40!!! Great job!

Haha yeah, I played it in the wrong scale with purpose btw i wanted some dissonance

It also very populare in C =)

thomandy wrote:

pianohama wrote:

Casyopea wrote:Waaaaaoh!!! Pachelbel got jazzy at 1:40!!! Great job!

Haha yeah, I played it in the wrong scale with purpose btw i wanted some dissonance

It also very populare in C =)

Haha, no you missunderstood The jazzy parts of the piece, I played the wrong blues scale so it wasn't in harmony with the chords ^^ but I tried harmonizing as much as I could anyway by timing some of the keys that fits with the chord

pianohama wrote:

thomandy wrote:

pianohama wrote:

Casyopea wrote:Waaaaaoh!!! Pachelbel got jazzy at 1:40!!! Great job!

Haha yeah, I played it in the wrong scale with purpose btw i wanted some dissonance

It also very populare in C =)

Haha, no you missunderstood The jazzy parts of the piece, I played the wrong blues scale so it wasn't in harmony with the chords ^^ but I tried harmonizing as much as I could anyway by timing some of the keys that fits with the chord

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Aaaaah Now I see You got much more knowledge conserning theory than me, Im just C- scale, yeah I know that one Haha, and youre going on about dissonance and harmony and all cinds of stuff

hehe, well you can learn my tutorial, I will eventually explain all that stuff ;D

It was nice

Phobik2000 wrote:It was nice

w00t was it that boring? haha

pianohama wrote:hehe, well you can learn my tutorial, I will eventually explain all that stuff ;D

I'm excited to watch your tutorial, partly to see you talk, and also to hear how you view what you're doing/get inside your mind

Admin Andrew wrote:

pianohama wrote:hehe, well you can learn my tutorial, I will eventually explain all that stuff ;D

I'm excited to watch your tutorial, partly to see you talk, and also to hear how you view what you're doing/get inside your mind

Hehe, you missunderstand andrew =) I won't be doing a vid tutorial, guess im to shy to talk on the camera. I got my tutorial on general piano discussion you know?

pianohama wrote:

Phobik2000 wrote:It was nice

w00t was it that boring? haha

Hum, actually no, it was I who ws uber tired (like I am now, got a soar throat )
Sorry I wasn't clear

thomandy wrote:Yes, its very impressing that you do what you do on the piano without practice, and just after listnening to it Very, very good
You got some real tallent with the improv. Keep it up!

pianohama wrote: But I guess it will do, I don't want to do a retake because then I'd have played it twice, and that's not an improvisation in my opinion It's cheating!

If you had played it once more, it would have sounded completly different i think... You cant really remember spoton improv corectly anyways, unless its rewhersed. So you could actually improv again, since it would sound like two different songs

That's what's so magic about improvisation, you barely ever play the same thing twice

YUP =) And you are soon a master of improv if you continue this speed =) I read also that one needs to rewherse improvisation. In older ages they usually battled in improv, fex of a tune that was hummed or wistled from the audience or plaine scales. And it was said that mozart and these componists used alot of time practicing different improvteqnices within the different scales and systems. So when you get really really good, you probable can improvise the same thing intentionally And, of course if you dont thnk that is real improvisation, then you got the skills to avoid it =)

What's sad about improvs are that you suddenly can make this beautiful set of keys that you really would've loved to have written down,
but it was just playd on the fly, and you didnt really think of what keys you hit.

VictorCS wrote:What's sad about improvs are that you suddenly can make this beautiful set of keys that you really would've loved to have written down,
but it was just playd on the fly, and you didnt really think of what keys you hit.

aw man dont get me started on that.. that's why i started recording what i play