Introduction to Music Theory
Introduction to Music Theory on the Electronic Piano
The electronic piano is also known as the electronic synthesizer. There are a lot of people who want to learn how to play the piano, but it's more suitable for children over 5 years old. Here is a look at the electronic piano music theory knowledge primer.
1, the timbre arrangement law:
The electronic piano is to simulate the traditional musical instrument timbre, both creative timbre of the new instrumental music. The sound is very rich, contrasting, and expressive.
So many tones can be roughly divided into three categories:
One is the continuity of the also known as the extension of the sound, such as strings (STRING), accordion (ACCORDION), clarinet (CLARINET), etc.;
The second is the decay, also known as granularity, such as the piano (PIANO), vibraphone (VIB), harp (HARP);
The second is the decay, also known as particulate, such as piano (PIANO), vibraphone (VIB), Harp (HARP);
The second is the decay, also known as particulate, such as piano (PIANO), vibraphone (VIB), Harp (HARP). HARP);
The third category is the natural sound of fantasy, such as the sound of the wilderness (LANDSCAPE), the sound of ice cubes (ICE BLOCK), the dream sound (G.DREAM) and so on, which is not available in any other conventional musical instruments.
Therefore, according to the style of different pieces of music to choose different characteristics of the tone in the visual performance is particularly important, now the tone design principles are introduced as follows:
a, lyrical slow melody: choose a soft, long reverberation continuity such as the horn (HORN), strings (STRINGS), violin (VIOLIN) and other tones, and auxiliary sustained sound (SUSTAIN), the violin (VIOLIN), and so on. SUSTAIN), vibrato (VIBRATO), reverb (REVERB), etc., they can make the sound produce space fantastic effect. Such as "Lullaby" with vocals, flute, etc., "Senjidema" with strings, etc.;
b. Singing melody: the choice of strings, woodwinds, or chorus of human voices sound plus sustained tone, reverb and other effects. Such as "A Day in the Life of a Herdsman", the introduction with a chorus (CHORUS);
c, lively and jumping fast melody: the choice of sound short, high range timbre, generally do not add sound effects. Such as pizzicato strings, piano tone. Such as Bach "Minuet" with the ancient piano (HARPSICHORD); "Octave" with vibraphone (VIBES). If you use the violin and other delayed tone is not ideal, in the performance of very dense rapid notes become cloudy. With granular bright tone becomes clear and smooth;
d, call or momentum of the section, you can choose brass (BRASS), Saxophone (SAX), accordion (ACCORDION) and other types of tone. At the same time, with stereo chorus (STEREO CHORUS) and other acoustics to add color; e. According to the music of a specific timbre selection timbre. Such as "clarinet polka" with the clarinet (CLARINET), "Smile Polka" with the Sac period (SAX), "trumpet player" with the trumpet (TRUMPET);
f, the specific background tone in the main tone playing the melody can be added to some of the special sound of the palladium: such as describing the seashore scenery to join the sound of the waves (WAVE), such as the "Seaside Song"; describing the future of the world of science fiction music, can join the space sound (STEREO CHORUS) and other sound effects to add color; e, based on the specific tone selection. Music, can join the space sound (INVADER), dream sound (G.DREAM) or alien world (OTHER WORLD) and so on
Such as the United States "Future World" movie music. The key to change the tone is: each section of the tone design to have a number in mind, to change the tone of the. The key position or number should be memorized accurately, and the change action should be decisive and accurate, avoiding too long a pause in the music, and using the left hand to change as much as possible. Don't change colors in the middle of a phrase.
In addition, the choice of tone prevents the use of a single tone or the use of several similar tones in a row, which lacks contrast, novelty, and character, and prevents the tone from being changed too often, so as to avoid clutter and triviality, and the effect is undesirable. Also pay attention to the relationship between the sound palladium and the range, such as bass saxophone should not be played in the bass area, soprano saxophone should not be played in the soprano area, otherwise the sound of the sharp ear.
Selecting a good tone is also necessary to try to play a modified. Some of the electronic piano has a synthesizer to modify the tone head and tail function and make new tone function, should make full use of, control to the best state. In short, it is important to understand the music and the style of the piece, and to choose a more appropriate tone.
2, the rhythm of the arrangement of the law:
a, with a clear dance style characteristics of the music, choose the rhythm can be adapted to it, such as the "Round Dance" with the waltz (WALTZ) rhythm, "Cuban Tango" with the tango (Tango) rhythm;
b, a slightly faster two beats ( Such as 2/4, 2/2 beat) music can choose to march (MARCH), Pop (POPS) or swing (SWING) tuned to fast. Such as "Hunter's March" with march, Czech folk song "jump" with Pop;
c, four-beat or two-beat music in the middle of the speed can choose to tango (TANGO), samba (SAMBA) or bossa nova (BOSSANOVA) rhythm. Such as the Japanese song "we dance samba" with samba rhythm, the American song "Yankee Song" with Zhang village music or march;
d, slow two-beat or four-beat music can be used to choose the Rumba (RUMBA), Samba (SAMBA) or swing (SWING) slower, such as Schubert's Lullaby with Bossanova, the former Soviet Union, the song "The Path" with swing;
e, three-beat music can choose to tango (TANGO), Samba (SAMBA) or bossa nova (BOSSANOVA) rhythm.
e, three beat music selection has two types of rhythm, a typical waltz (WALTZ) rhythm, such as "Cuckoo Dance" with waltz. Another eight-six beat (6/8) music should be selected with slow rock (SLOW ROCK) rhythm, can not be accompanied by three-beat rhythm, such as the eighth level of visual music, the fourth "Lazy Mary" is appropriate to use this rhythm;
f, mixed-beat music is based on the above rules of segmented selection of rhythms, and finally connected to the performance, the rhythmic name of the backlog section should be remembered to change the keyboard position or number number so that the accurate and timely change. The first step is to change the keyboard position or number in order to accurately change in time. Such as the fifth grade examination music "duck girl" rhythm changes are: free rhythm - 8 beats (8BEAT) - slow rock (SLOW ROCK) - free rhythm.
In short, the rhythmic changes are: free rhythm - 8 beat (8BEAT) - slow rock (SLOW ROCK) - free rhythm.
In short, in order to ensure that the rhythm and music image and emotional unity, the choice of rhythm more trial, more adjustments, more changes to do when you have a clear idea of what to do, and more left-handed practice, to achieve agility and accuracy, slow music is beautiful and accurate.
1. What is the best way to start practicing on the electric piano?
The electronic keyboard should be practiced from the simple left and right finger method when you first start learning.
The habit of playing the piano is generally to practice the right hand and then practice the left hand, must remember to practice separately, the right left hand did not reach the standard, do not rush to play the piano with both hands.
After you become proficient, you can then practice the more difficult chord playing methods. The basic fingerings are C major, D major, E major, G major, A major, and B major.
2. Common basic rhythms
In the case of a quarter note, there are 4 beats for the whole note, 2 beats for the half note, and 1 beat for the quarter note.
3. What is the basic fingering of the keyboard?
The basic fingering of the electronic piano is 1234567.
Corresponding to the right hand's thumb, index finger, middle finger, thumbs, index finger, middle finger, ring finger,
The left hand's fingering corresponds to the pinky finger, ring finger, middle finger, index finger, thumbs, middle finger, index finger,
The fingers of the right hand are played by passing the fingers from the underneath, and the left hand is crossing over from the top of the fingers.
4. What are chords?
A chord is a note that accompanies the melody and makes the music richer, fuller and more beautiful.
The relationship between chords and melody can be understood as follows: when a person sings a song, he sings the melody, and he is accompanied by a piano, an orchestra, or a cassette tape, which sets off and enriches the song, and these effects can be approximated to the effect of chords. The effects can be approximated as "chords".
5. What are the pentatonic numbers?
Re-ascendant: ascends a whole tone,
Ascendant: ascends a semitone,
Reduction: restores the rise and fall of the note,
Descendant: descends a semitone,
Reduction: descends a whole tone.
Variation sign writing:
The key sign is #F, #C, #G, #D, #A, #E, #B. 71B, 71E, 71A, 71D, 71G, 71C, 71F.
The elevation in the key sign is valid for the whole piece, and the temporary elevation is valid for this measure.
6. How are the registers of the 61-key electric piano distributed?
From low to high, they are in the order of large character group ~ small character group ~ small character group ~ small character group ~ small character group 2 ~ small character group 3 ~ small character group 4.
Each complete group has 12 keys, 7 white keys plus 5 black keys, and each group starts with do and ends with si.
7. Where is the do sound?
The do is to the immediate left of each of the two black keys.
8. How do you recognize the pitches in a stave?
1234567 stands for a group of small letters (alto), directly below the keyboard display.
1234567 with a dot above it represents the second group of small letters (soprano), and so on.
1234567 with a dot underneath represents the small letter group (bass), and so on.
9, electronic piano fingering there is no mnemonic?
The fingering mnemonics of the electric piano are differentiated according to the chord`s difference:
The mnemonics are the fingering of the individual chords:
For example, the Am chord is la, do, mi,
The Dm chord is ra, mi, fa,
The Cm chord is do, mi, sol,
The 7th chord G7 is sol, si, re, fa,
The D7 chord is re, #fa, la, do,
#F7 chord is #fa, #la, #do, mi.
10. What are some common chords?
The three most common chords are the major triad, the minor triad and the dominant seventh. We can distinguish them by the way they are written.
(1) The major triad. A capital letter, or a capital letter with an ascending and descending sign. No other markings.
(2), minor triads. A capital letter, or a capital letter with an ascending or descending sign followed by a lowercase m.
(3) The seventh chord. A capital letter, or a capital letter with an ascending or descending sign followed by a lowercase 7.
11. What is the difference between the accompaniment area and the melody area?
Generally, the small character group #4 is the boundary, and the left side of the small character group #4 is the accompaniment area, and the right side is the melody area.
Theory of the electronic piano knowledge primer 3
61-key electronic piano, for example, its a **** 6 groups of keys, where the side of the beginning of the number of the first to the fifth group is complete, each group of 12 keys, the rightmost group is incomplete, there is only a C (i.e., dol in the key of C) key.
These six groups of keys, from left to right, are the large-letter group, the small-letter group, the small-letter group, the small-letter group, the small-letter group, the small-letter group, the small-letter group, the small-letter group, the small-letter group, the small-letter group, the small-letter group. Starting from the leftmost key of the major group, the white keys are C, D, E, F, G, A, B, corresponding to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in the key of C.
The letters denote the names of the pitches, while the dol or whatever is usually referred to as the chanter, which is fixed, and which may change with the key, but learning to play the electronic keyboard is not too focused on this, and we generally use fixed pitches for fixed chanter names. The name of the note is fixed, and the name of the note may change from key to key. Ethnic instruments and voices may pay more attention to this. The black key is the white key on the left that is raised by a semitone or the white key on the right that is lowered by a semitone.
There are 36 white keys and 25 black keys.
1=A, which means the key of A. 1=whatever, which is the key of, shall we say, the A key, with which you play the note 1.
The black and white keys on an electric piano are divided into twelve equal temperaments. The law that divides an octave into twelve equal parts - the semitones - is called twelve equal temperament.
A semitone is the smallest pitch distance in the twelve equal temperament organization. Two tones with a distance between them equal to two semitones are called whole tones. An octave contains twelve semitones, or six whole tones.
In the middle of the basic scale of the tone row, the distance between two neighboring tones is a whole tone, except for E to F and B to C, which are semitones. Two adjacent keys (including the black key) all constitute a semitone, and two tones separated by a key all constitute a whole tone. Since E and F, and B and C are chromatic, they are not separated by a black key, but the rest of the distance between the neighboring tones is a whole tone, so they need to be separated by a black key. Thus there are seven white keys and five black keys in an octave.