What Is "Naked Music"?

Naked music is music that is plain vanilla. And there's nothing wrong with that. But most of us want to bring our own feelings to the piano and play MORE than just what is written. To do that, we need to analyze the structure of the score, including the chord progessions and form of the song, then improvise using a wide variety of arranging techniques. For help in that area, see http://www.pianoplaying.com/

What does it mean to "Dress Up Naked Music"?

That's a strange phrase, isn't it? What in the world is "naked music"?

You've probably noticed that virtually NO professional piano player plays music exactly like it is written in sheet music (except for classical, of course -- that's a different matter).

Instead, they embellish and improvise and arrange the music that is on the printed sheet -- in other words, they "dress up naked music."

There is a great course on the subject at "How To Dress Up Naked Music On The Piano"

Check it out. It covers 101 things that pianists do to make plain old sheet music come to life in new and exciting ways.