Let's just say you happen to be a person who plays the piano rather well. You took lots of music lessons as a child and occassionally play the piano at home, but you just haven't ever done anything else with it. If you can call yourself a respectable site-reader or you can improvise, you could certainly get occassional work on the piano bench at your local ballet studio.
How To Make It Happen
Each ballet exercise, and there are approximately fourteen of them in a ballet class, has its own special music at a particular speed and in a certain style. To get an understanding of how this works, pay a visit to a ballet studio and watch one or two classes all the way through. By doing this, you will get an idea of the kind of music that is used.
A Shortcut
Another very helpful preparation is to purchase an album of ballet class music. You'll need an album with a complete ballet class so that you can see and hear all of the exercises in order. If you improvise, just listen to one exercise at a time and try improvising something like what the pianist on the album is doing. I would recommend Don Caron's First Class Albums of ballet class music for this.
Go For It
When you're feeling that you have a basic knowledge of the way the ballet class works, head on out to the nearest ballet studio and have a talk with the owner. Just tell them you're starting out and would like to play for a few classes to get your feet wet. They will be glad for your offer and you'll get plenty of good help from the ballet teachers who will be happy to help you learn what sort of music to play.
Now go do it!
How To Make It Happen
Each ballet exercise, and there are approximately fourteen of them in a ballet class, has its own special music at a particular speed and in a certain style. To get an understanding of how this works, pay a visit to a ballet studio and watch one or two classes all the way through. By doing this, you will get an idea of the kind of music that is used.
A Shortcut
Another very helpful preparation is to purchase an album of ballet class music. You'll need an album with a complete ballet class so that you can see and hear all of the exercises in order. If you improvise, just listen to one exercise at a time and try improvising something like what the pianist on the album is doing. I would recommend Don Caron's First Class Albums of ballet class music for this.
Go For It
When you're feeling that you have a basic knowledge of the way the ballet class works, head on out to the nearest ballet studio and have a talk with the owner. Just tell them you're starting out and would like to play for a few classes to get your feet wet. They will be glad for your offer and you'll get plenty of good help from the ballet teachers who will be happy to help you learn what sort of music to play.
Now go do it!
About the Author:
This post is brought to you compliments of Gaylord Pannitron. For more detailed explanations of how to play the piano for ballet class, there are examples at How to Play ballet class music, a domain for ballet class teachers and pianists. The First Class Albums, discussed in this article can be found in Amazon's ballet class music listings.
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