Creative Piano Playing 101 by Edward Weiss So many piano students worry about playing notes correctly. They think about timing, dynamics, velocity, and so on. Yet these same students are dying for the ability to feel something real. That spark of creative energy that enervates and refreshes the spirit. Poets know of this feeling as do painters and other creative people working in their respective fields. But what about music? Surely, we're not meant to spend months and sometimes years learning how to play other peoples music. Yet this is exactly what is being done in schools and Universities around the world. The piano is a marvelous instrument full of wonder. It sits waiting to be played. And you can play it! Not like traditional schools. You can sit down and let your fingers reach for a chord that calls to you. You gently rest your hands on this chord and music; beautiful wondrous music comes forth! How different this is than trying to play something someone else has written. Your music is alive! It's unique and fresh and born of originality! Each note perfumes the air with delicate fragrance and you feel alive with this. Your heart and mind work together as the ideal music YOUR MUSIC floats into the air. The notes surround your heart and the hearts of others as they hear it. Gone is the need to recreate yet another dead composer's music. In it's place, a feeling of quiet joy as you let go and let the music tell you where it wants to go. 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!