There are so many styles of music out there. Thankfully, there is also New Age piano music. A wonderful style of playing that goes right to the heart bringing back memories, feelings, and emotions. Or creating new pictures in our heads. Impressionistic in nature, New Age piano music does not seek to try and tell you something. Instead, it leads the listen on a journey.

For instance, the lesson Autumn was created by looking at a picture that inspired me. A few minutes later, that piece was created. This is the beauty of New Age piano. It’s a style of music that doesn’t take long to learn and can be experienced quickly. A few chords, a sound, a technique are all that is needed and we are off exploring a world of sound.

George Winston, the man who literally put New Age piano on the map looks at his music as a soundtrack for the seasons. He loves the idea of giving voice to the natural world. Visual artists have been doing this for hundreds of years. Monet, Manet, and other French impressionists interpreted how they felt about the natural world through paint and composition.

Music also has it’s impressionistic counterpart. Claude Debussy, certainly one of the greatest composers of the 20th century based many of his compositions on nature themes. And now we have New Age piano - a contemporary and, I think, quite necessary art form that seeks to infuse the beauty of nature with music!

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the internet. Stop by now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html for a FREE piano lesson!

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If you’ve ever looked at a flower garden, not only its beauty may have captivated you, but also its overall arrangement.

There may have been some tulips or roses combined with other flowers or plants.

You may also have stood there looking it over. Maybe you started on one side and your eye moved down or vice-versa. Now, music making is a lot like flower arranging. You combine different elements to make a pleasing whole.

It is a natural tendency of the human mind to create order out of chaos and art from nothing. What is pleasing to the listening ear is symmetry. The flower arrangement captivates, not only because of its great beauty, but because it has been composed and arranged to a pleasing whole - something the eye and the mind can grasp hold of and ponder.

We walk away with a sense of completion because someone took the time to bring order into chaos. Someone arranged varying elements to create art. Now this is what musicians do whether they realize it or not. But instead of flowers, we use notes and chords. Instead of a vase, we use musical form to hold the notes and chords.

Music is a more difficult art because the elements are not as easily put together. Music is slippery and ephemeral but when we learn to use the tools of repetition and contrast, we begin to put some order into chaos. Chaos is good and has its place in improvisation, however, for those who wish to compose their own music, it’s a good idea to learn the tools of the trade.

The flower arranger must know how to create a balance between color and form - the overall look and feel of the arrangement. The composer must also create balance but uses musical materials - chords, notes, phrases, etc.

Then he puts it together into a framework. A flower arrangement can be big or small depending on the size of the vase. Similarly, a new age piano work can be long or short depending on the amount of contrast and repetition used.

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the internet. Stop by now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html for a FREE piano lesson!

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So, you’re looking for free piano lessons? There are many sites on the Internet that offer to teach you how to play the piano. Problem is, they aren’t that good. That is, you may learn how to read bass or treble clef, but you won’t come away being able to actually play something until now!

My name is Edward Weiss and I’ve been offering students free piano lessons for over 3 years now. Specifically, the lessons I offer help you to improvise and create your own music without any experience necessary! The 2 free piano lessons offered are titled “Winter Scene” and “Reflections in Water!”

Each lesson offers you a different technique. In “Winter Scene,” you learn how to play an ostinato pattern in your left hand while your right creates an improvised melody. “Reflections in Water” teaches you how to improvise using chords with both hands right away. There is no waiting, no complicated theory or technique to learn. On the contrary, these free piano lessons are designed to get you playing your own music right away from scratch.

Look, if you want to spend years learning how to read music and then play other peoples music, by all means you should. But if you want a new approach to music, one that’s based on chords and improvisation, you’re going to love these free piano lessons!

The cool thing about them is that they’re structured like an art lesson. That is, it’s a step-by-step instruction that leads you to improvising your own music. Just like an art lesson, you learn the basics first. Each step leads you to the next and if you follow the text, you’ll be able to just sit down at the piano and play. Try out these free piano lessons and see for yourself!

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the internet. Stop by now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html for a FREE piano lesson!

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