Ah, the lonely solo line. This is a healthy thing for a pianist to do. Just play one line, like a horn or a singer does all the time. It breaks everything down to the basics of music - singing and making every note count. As pianists it's easy to forget that music isn't always doing two or more things at once and playing all this stuff just 'cause we can.
I want to think like this even when playing multiple melodies at once or chords. For me, reaching for sublimity is where it's at. Consistently achieving that would be......sublime!
The more notes that are present at any given time the more difficult it is to focus your energy into each note. At the same time as a listener, it's more difficult to follow multiple simultaneous melodies or hear every note in a chord. We tend to follow the dominant line when there's a bunch going on. If a piece overall, has economy of notes, makes sense, and is really nice as a whole, I think we get close to the sublime.
I want to think like this even when playing multiple melodies at once or chords. For me, reaching for sublimity is where it's at. Consistently achieving that would be......sublime!
The more notes that are present at any given time the more difficult it is to focus your energy into each note. At the same time as a listener, it's more difficult to follow multiple simultaneous melodies or hear every note in a chord. We tend to follow the dominant line when there's a bunch going on. If a piece overall, has economy of notes, makes sense, and is really nice as a whole, I think we get close to the sublime.