Easy Piano Songs

If you are a piano player, then you know how important practice is, working on muscle memory and technique to grow your skills to become a more established pianist. But what’s the point of all this practicing if you’re not feeling emotions you are expressing with your instrument. Here are some tips you can use to ingrain emotion in your playing:

1. Experiment with tempo and dynamics

Think about how an individual expresses themselves when they’re talking. When somebody is mad, they may be inclined to talk more loudly. Or when S/he feels excited, they talk faster than usual. The same case applies to music! You can try experimenting with some simple musical phrases and translate that feeling into how’d you play it. It may seem easy, but it works!

2. Combining minor chords with major chords

Another excellent way of adding some emotion to your piano playing is creating contrast. So if you happen to discover that the major chord progression is a bit stale, you can spice things up by adding a minor chord! An easy way of picking a minor chord is finding the relative minor in the “I tonic” chord. At times, a chord substitution like that can make all the difference.

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3. Learn some four-note chords

You can add emotional complexity to the piano music by using four-note chords when in a chord progression. When a major triad is played next to the major 7th chord, it may sound dreamlike and airy. When under a simple melody, a lot of tension can be added to the minor 9th chord. Each note that’s added to a chord gives it a slightly changed color, so you can play around with the notes to help in creating varying emotions in the chords.

These are just a handful of ways you can use to add some emotion when playing the piano. There are obviously many more! You can apply them to your songwriting, basic practicing, and free-improvisation. Pick some beginner piano songs to practice and experiment, next time you’re playing, express yourself in your technique and personal emotions.