Music Discussion thread

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The only answer to that question is: train your ear. A good way to do that is to study in-depth the greatest piano works like the Beethoven sonatas and internalize the compositional techniques (as well as the pianistic techniques). If history is to be believed then the compositions of the great keyboard virtuosos like Beethoven, Chopin, Bach* and Mozart closely resembled their improvisations, if there was even a difference at all. They had amazing ears and sometimes they could conceive of entire compositions in only a matter of seconds, working out the details in real time, making the difference between improvising and composing only a matter of notation.

But if you feel your left hand always gets typecast into a role of boring accompaniment you could learn something insane like Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand (actually, the guy who commissioned the work did so from a lot of major composers so there are a lot of left-hand concertos)). After mastering that your left hand will have some serious chops and you will feel more comfortable doing crazy stuff with it. Other than that advice, which can only be called an educated guess as I'm not much of a composer or pianist myself, I'm not sure what specifically you can do to achieve some "immediate" results.

*Who as you may know could actually improvise 4+ part fugues - truly an unbelievable feat