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Michael Nyman - The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from the Piano) - Free Sheet Music Riff

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Michael Nyman - The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from the Piano) - Free Sheet Music Riff

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Michael Nyman: The Piano (Original Compositions for Solo Piano from the Award-Winning Film by Jane Campion) Composed by Michael Nyman. Collection for solo piano. From the motion picture "The Piano". 32 pages. Published by Chester Music. ISBN 0711933227. (MS.CH60871)
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One of the most evocative film scores of recent years, Michael Nyman's sound track to The Piano has been very popular with pianists despite its difficulty.

Michael Nyman's style of composing is known as minimlism, as one of the main features of that style is the use of fast additive rhythms that overlap with each other. In the example below you can see this in action - the top hand stresses every third quaver, where the left hand stresses quavers 1 and 4:

By using this kind of rhythmic pattern we can easily build up our own riff 'in-the-style-of' The Piano. The example below is based on the above pattern, in bar 2 the left hand moves down to arpeggios on G major and then F major. The right hand however stays the same, with just the accented notes changing in time with the left hand.

A later section of the piece uses this lovely arpeggio on the chord of Am9:


		Chords Used in Michael Nyman - The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from the Piano)

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Michael Nyman: Revisiting The Piano Performed by Michael Nyman. Collection for solo piano. From the motion picture "The Piano". 24 pages. Published by Chester Music. ISBN 0711968845. (MS.CH61411)
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Drowning By Numbers By Michael Nyman. Study score. Published by Shawnee Press. (CH61649)
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Ariel Songs By Michael Nyman. Voice and piano. Published by Shawnee Press. (CT55027)
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Michael Nyman - The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from the Piano) - Free Sheet Music Riff

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