The study discusses how singers can maintain and enhance their ability to simultaneously offer supportive and expressive piano accompaniment. We'll explore the negatives and positives of self-accompanying on the piano for singers, including Alicia keys & john Mayer’s if I ain't got you at times square in 2016. While some may find the piano sound limited in its colouristic nature, I personally find the variety of the simultaneous vocal/piano arrangement in Alicia keys' live performance of if I ain't got you refreshing. In addition, she strikes a reasonable balance between the technique of the piano/voice and the expression of emotion in the music. More specifically, I will be exploring and analysing if I ain't got you from the point of view of musical and physical considerations, musical conception and the relation between voice and piano.

Jiayi Zhu. Study on the Synchronous Performance of Vocal Music and Piano. Frontiers in Art Research (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 10: 75-81. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2023.051013.

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