Amazing Technique for New Age Piano Lets You Create Rich Harmonic Backgrounds
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When I first heard the piece “Rain” by George Winston I was blown away. Here was a solo piano piece that sounded so rich and full, you could swear more than one person was playing it. Yet it’s just one man on one piano.
When Winston released his video, I got to see how he did it. It all has to do with the left hand. He uses the left hand to create a beautiful ostinato pattern. But this is no ordinary pattern. The secret to how he gets his sound is in the thumb. You see he moves the thumb back and forth past an octave to add in more notes. Not too complicated once you understand how it’s done.
Once the ostinato pattern is “down” in the left hand, the right comes in with the melody. The trick to creating something like this is to really get the pattern down first in the left hand. There’s a lot you can do here – even with 2 chords!
After the left hand is secure and the right comes in with improvised melody, Winston does something else that mystifies those who’ve never seen it. He reaches over his left hand with the right to hit bass notes. In my lesson “Flashflood,” I use the same technique. I take 2 chords (E flat Major and B Major) and use them to full advantage.
This really adds to the whole thing. Sonorous, thunderous bass notes create an added richness. And one person is still doing it all. It really is amazing.
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