Great video! Just a heads up, if you just want to hear one sound, you can still select whatever signature you’re in, but click on the green dots. That cycles on/off and accents for that beat. Love that metronome!
Yeah, this is pretty much the method I like to use. I do find that I have to stay at the same tempo for quite a while for some things because, even if it feels “pretty easy”, I will still have mistakes or unevenness say…3-5 out of 10 times. So sometimes I will make myself do a passage about 7-10 times before moving on just to be sure it “wasn’t a fluke” (and I can usually feel if that one or two times I nailed it was just lucky, haha:-) I will write down the tempo I left off at on my music and then when I come back, I start just a little bit under that because it’s usually more challenging when I come back after a day or so. If I have a particularly tricky spot, I’ll even keep a handful of paper clips on my piano and line them up on one side. Every time I get it, I move one across, and see how many I can get in a row with no mistakes. It’s almost like a little game, and saves me from actively having to count and my brain space is free to just focus on the music.
These are good strategies. There's other factors in all of this too, physicality, technique, etc that all changes when the speed increases. Working slowly and gradually let's you observe what is changing and gives you a fighting chance to figure out how to execute faster rhythmic passages as the tempo increases.
As another commented, take breaks of a few minutes intermittently. I think that improves the rate of learning. I think I got that from Andrew Huberman. Tal Wilkenfeld also mentioned on the Lex Fridman Podcast that she also did that when she practised as a child for only 30 minutes a day.
31 years of piano playing here. Watched the entire video for some unknown magic. No magic. That's how one could practice! Only one important oversight: do, please, do make breakes and relax your entire arm and everything inbetween. A sprinter does not run slow, immediately again quicker, immediately again even quicker. You are overusing the wrong kind of muscles! When you use the automatic increase in that app (that I love!) just add 2 or 4 extra bars!
Absolutely! I should have mentioned that I was practicing with the Automator in a sped up way to demonstrate the process more quickly. I agree and and would build in much longer times between tempo changes for sure. Thank you for the comment!
Great video! Just a heads up, if you just want to hear one sound, you can still select whatever signature you’re in, but click on the green dots. That cycles on/off and accents for that beat. Love that metronome!
Great tip! I use this later on when I'm using the automator, but I didn't explain what I was doing when I changed the time signature from 1/4 to 4/4.
Yeah, this is pretty much the method I like to use. I do find that I have to stay at the same tempo for quite a while for some things because, even if it feels “pretty easy”, I will still have mistakes or unevenness say…3-5 out of 10 times. So sometimes I will make myself do a passage about 7-10 times before moving on just to be sure it “wasn’t a fluke” (and I can usually feel if that one or two times I nailed it was just lucky, haha:-) I will write down the tempo I left off at on my music and then when I come back, I start just a little bit under that because it’s usually more challenging when I come back after a day or so.
If I have a particularly tricky spot, I’ll even keep a handful of paper clips on my piano and line them up on one side. Every time I get it, I move one across, and see how many I can get in a row with no mistakes. It’s almost like a little game, and saves me from actively having to count and my brain space is free to just focus on the music.
These are good strategies. There's other factors in all of this too, physicality, technique, etc that all changes when the speed increases. Working slowly and gradually let's you observe what is changing and gives you a fighting chance to figure out how to execute faster rhythmic passages as the tempo increases.
This has broad applicability for everything we do in life.
True. Take your time. If you really want to know something you have to approach it from a multitude of angles
As another commented, take breaks of a few minutes intermittently. I think that improves the rate of learning. I think I got that from Andrew Huberman. Tal Wilkenfeld also mentioned on the Lex Fridman Podcast that she also did that when she practised as a child for only 30 minutes a day.
31 years of piano playing here. Watched the entire video for some unknown magic. No magic. That's how one could practice!
Only one important oversight: do, please, do make breakes and relax your entire arm and everything inbetween. A sprinter does not run slow, immediately again quicker, immediately again even quicker. You are overusing the wrong kind of muscles!
When you use the automatic increase in that app (that I love!) just add 2 or 4 extra bars!
Absolutely! I should have mentioned that I was practicing with the Automator in a sped up way to demonstrate the process more quickly. I agree and and would build in much longer times between tempo changes for sure. Thank you for the comment!