If you’ve learned piano through the classical route – lessons, scores, exams and careful attention to detail — improvisation can feel like a completely different world. But you’re not starting again: many of your existing skills transfer. You just need a slightly different mindset.
In this video I look at three practical ways to make the jump from classical piano into chords, improvisation and more exploratory playing: working from a small number of songs, gradually loosening the constraints, and replacing rigid goals with habits, curiosity and small musical challenges.
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00:00 Intro
01:35 Two kinds of piano playing
03:55 1: work from songs
05:44 2: expand constraints
10:36 3: think like a gamer (goals and ambitions)