The Melody

When I first started playing for Youtube, I began to hear myself from the audience pov. Distancing myself from the piano as a pianist, I discovered a problem.

My music? Bottom-heavy. Details? Overdone. I performed my music from ground-up. Convinced by my theory knowledge that harmony is the basis of music. I over-played the harmony.

Slowly, I realised - no matter how beautiful I shape my harmony, my chords, my bass notes even... I will never play beautiful music. Because the beauty of music lies in the singability and extravagance of the melody. Or in certain cases, secondary melodies too.

I pulled myself away from my music, and really listened to it.

Why didn't I hear how loud my left hand was in the past? Why did I spend time and effort shaping the harmonies when I should be enjoying and singing with the melody phrases? Why did I ever think that harmony can be more important than the melody when the melody is always right there? Piercing at me!

Life is tricky and ain't I a fool?!

Well - Hope we can all hear the melody of our music. Especially.on.the.piano.