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My Very First Hymn Improvising Lesson

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Uploaded by on Sep 26, 2009

http://thechurchpianist.com

Improvising hymns at the piano by Jenifer Cook

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  • Do you have the other tutorials up? I am happy you are offering this.

  • @MsBmiller

    I do plan on creating more tutorials as time allows this summer. Some of them will be available in my online music store.

  • Very interesting.....in my 26 years of playing the piano, I've never seen bass clef harmonic octave stems point up......all technicalities aside, your arranging style is beautiful, I've enjoyed your videos.

  • @musicisfun4u Thank you :)

  • This is exactly the way I was taught to play hymns when I started playing out of the hymnal......brings back so many memories.

    I like how you drew it all in on a piano score, that's a great visual for 1st time improvisers. I'm just wondering why you drew the stems going up on the bass clef octaves? I'm a piano teacher and I'm a stickler with my students on correct notation and knowing which way to turn the stems :)

  • @musicisfun4u Thanks for your comments ;) As far as the stems on the left hand octaves...I follow the guidelines from "The Art of Engraving & Processing" book and place my stems accordingly. Here's the stem rule as stated from this book: "When two notes share a stem, the direction of the stem is determined thus: 1) If the interval below the middle line is greater than the interval above the middle line, the stem goes up.

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  • I found this very helpful. I've been reading your website posts for quite some time now,

    but watching you do this is an added bonus. Thanks a lot!

  • This Tip waws very helpful. Thank you for sharing.

  • Great teaching tip! I plan to use this for some of my students. Thanks for sharing!

  • Looks like a great beginning for a valuable series! I look forward to the next tutorial.

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