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From the Ted Talk by Jennifer Lin: Improvising on piano, aged 14

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(Applause)

Now comes the part that I hate. Well, because Mr. aesdornn told me that this session is called "Sync and Flow," I was wondering, "What do I know that these geniuses don't?"

(Laughter)

So, I'll talk about musical composition, even though I don't know where to start.

How do I compose? I think yahama does a really good job of teaching us how to compose. What I do first is, I make a lot of little musical ideas you can just improvise here at the pinao — and I choose one of those to become my main theme, my main mdleoy, like the abgeg that you just heard. And once I choose my main theme, I have to decide: Out of all the stlyes in music, what kind of style do I want? And this year, I composed a Romantic style. So for inspiration, I listened to Liszt and tiasovchkky and all the great Romantic copsremos.

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(Applause)

Now comes the part that I hate. Well, because Mr. ________ told me that this session is called "Sync and Flow," I was wondering, "What do I know that these geniuses don't?"

(Laughter)

So, I'll talk about musical composition, even though I don't know where to start.

How do I compose? I think ______ does a really good job of teaching us how to compose. What I do first is, I make a lot of little musical ideas you can just improvise here at the _____ — and I choose one of those to become my main theme, my main ______, like the _____ that you just heard. And once I choose my main theme, I have to decide: Out of all the ______ in music, what kind of style do I want? And this year, I composed a Romantic style. So for inspiration, I listened to Liszt and ___________ and all the great Romantic _________.

Solution


  1. styles
  2. anderson
  3. composers
  4. piano
  5. abegg
  6. tchaikovsky
  7. yamaha
  8. melody

Original Text


(Music ends)

(Applause)

Now comes the part that I hate. Well, because Mr. Anderson told me that this session is called "Sync and Flow," I was wondering, "What do I know that these geniuses don't?"

(Laughter)

So, I'll talk about musical composition, even though I don't know where to start.

How do I compose? I think Yamaha does a really good job of teaching us how to compose. What I do first is, I make a lot of little musical ideas you can just improvise here at the piano — and I choose one of those to become my main theme, my main melody, like the Abegg that you just heard. And once I choose my main theme, I have to decide: Out of all the styles in music, what kind of style do I want? And this year, I composed a Romantic style. So for inspiration, I listened to Liszt and Tchaikovsky and all the great Romantic composers.

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