#1 tip: Practice with the mindset of a performance 0:52 Practice preparation by: 2:17 thinking about what you're going to do 2:48 don't "doodle impulsively" #2 tip: Finish the phrase 3:15 3:50 the purpose? To think of the bigger picture & hone your mental/physical stamina #3 tip: Put your heart into it 4:16 4:41 I never liked practicing - but now I think of it as an "escape" 5:19 Practice is as much about discovering and freeing yourself as getting a particular passage into your system
I always tell my little students parents, that practicing, is like when a kid must have a bath. You spend like an hour trying to get them into the water, and like three hours trying to get them out of it. You are so right. Once I open the case, I don´t want to do nothing else but playing, just me and my violin. The whole world disappears.
For me and for a long time, I simply practiced because I really liked the process of learning the works. A long time later I realized that it was helping me escape from a very lonely reality; that was what made music one of the things I love most in life. I wish you good health always. Greetings from Argentina.
I just started lessons again after a 26 year break, and my new teacher has given me a couple of these tips already! I have a bad habit of double or triple checking my first note before starting properly, so I’ll be working hard to break that habit.
Hahaha thats great! I came back after 30 years and I have a habit of checking my first note too! But I simply broke that habit in a day cause I just decided I will not do it anymore. Let me know how you doing!
Excellent, sound advice! Practice is good for the soul. One additional piece of advice: play passages at times not just because you're trying to get them right. Practice the passages because you greatly enjoy them. Remove the frustration through enjoyment and your muscles will respond better.
Thank youuu soooo much Kerson, we often have that mentality of practice = boring / chore (as you said) / something mandatory, but we forget that we can also enjoy it. I will try to put your advices on practice now, thaaank youuu sooo soooooo much !!!
Duuude! That's gold! This is what Flesh called Mental Hygiene in practice and it changed my approach to it as well. Completely. Doodle is the worste.. Thank you Kerson 🎶
Many of us were taught the 3hr per day model, but without good specifics... Specifics are actually the most important thing!! Practicing this way over the last few years, has begun to revolutionize the way I feel and teach learning the violin now. It's a game changer. Btw, I just discovered your videos and they are wonderful. Thank you! I love and teach the concept and importance of practice basically always as performance prep! (Fellow Nathan Cole fan here) Beautiful Bartok btw!!
I had a good practice yesterday because I focused on my bowing, and producing a beautiful sound! I wanted to make my songs sound their best and most beautiful I was capable of, and I’m only in Suzuki book one. I went over them because I know them now and wanted each note to sound pretty. I wanted to play from my heart, like I meant it. Now to start viewing it as a performance.
The "finish the phrase" one is so important! If you don't finish the phrase you might end up blocked in your mind because you are afraid of finishing the phrase (that happens to me) because it might not come up as you expected. Great tips!! 😁😁 About the third point, I feel like when I was little I had more fun practicing. It's true that I didn't study methodically the difficult passages but I kinda improved by playing and playing. Since I studied with another teacher, it's true that I've improved a lot technically, but while practicing I only focuse on those things I have to correct, and I don't have as much fun. I guess there must be a balance: working in those difficult passages without ceasing to play it all only enjoying the music ❤️
Thanks Kerson, this video made clear many issue and learn things such as: - setting mental preparation as if in performance. -A conscious effort in visualization before is essential for clarity of thought. -to not doodle with random notes to reassure self and make clear of the passage with no immediate stops - practice is exploring vulnerability and boundaries of comfort
I couldn’t agree more. Thank you for sharing this tip! (PS I’m so glad I found your channel through your performance of Dvorak’s Songs my Mother Taught Me). I opened my violin case for the first time in a long time ~
Thanks Kerson, great advice. I got a great tip from That Viola Kid some years ago: Strive to improve 1% each day. That'll make 365% in a year. That simple thought has had a profound effect on me, and always makes me smile. While I'm here, thanks for all your brilliant videos, you've played a big role in my development. 😊😁
Thank you very much!!! Today, I attempted practicing with all these tips and it already significantly improved the piece I’m playing (Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro). I can already tell that my progress is going to be much quicker than how I used to practice. Thanks!! 🤘👌
I agree, that your practicing will become more effective if you mean what you play but there is a cost to this type of practice. It requires more energy and it will be harder to be so effective if you do not have sufficient rest of nourishment. Since you need to be entirely present in your mind you also cannot be distracted. It is a significant change in mind but you also have to adjust your daily habits to be able to be productive like this.
It made me realize what practice means to me and still don't know the asnwer. Your tips helped me and will apply in my practice. Thank you for sharinggg!!!
Your comment is wonderful, even if some of them should be familiar is great to be remained, I’m studying classical guitar and again your comment fits Perfect in, or how the way to absorb music Thank you for sharing
I've been struggling with practicing efficiently for quite some time and these tips are great ones! Thank you for sharing these tips maestro it really meant a lot to me.
would love to have you talk about mozart and how to approach the different challenges the mozartean language brings mostly in the technical aspect aswell with some tips and thoughts of how you should practise it as you did with the etude series
Wonderful tips. Some tips resemble those by Nathan Cole. Always practice for performance, don’t doodle. But if more teachers preach the same, we can be sure that it are good tips!
Kerson, Thank You so much for your insight . I am an adult clarinetist. I started later in life and have been playing for only ten years. I find all your advice and comments applicable to my clarinet playing as well. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and life experience. Much appreciated. Tom F.
Loved your tips and your voice!! ... I entirely understand what you're trying to say ... During this pandemia I found playing to be like an escape, a moment just for me, to scape and be free in my mind .. I learned so much! Thank you for your videos!
2:52 What are those doodles roughly like? Where might they have been picked up from? I wouldn't mind having something similar under my fngers, though specifically _not_ for doodling!
What are your insights on drinking alchohol and the complexities of violin technique? Obviously if we drink too much, we can't even walk, we can't play violin well. Is there a healthy moderation to drinking and still playing violin well? Or is any small amount of alcohol bad for us professional violinists? I'm curious of your personal insights please! Thanks sincerely!
I love how this video says it was published 16 minutes ago yet some comments are from 4 hours ago. Great tips by the way, I found them extremely motivating!!
Thanks for the great tips! Could you advise on "safe" gym exercise to do to improve back and arms strength, I'm always scared of tensing up which is no good for violin playing...
But Ling Ling says I should practice 40 hours a day. Joke aside your videos are very interesting videos Kerson. You have one of the most impressive violin sonority I have ever heard.
Here's a fun challenge - can you name the 7 different pieces playing quietly in the background?
Bartok concerto 2
Bruch concerto
Paganini cadenza concerto 1
Prokofiev 1
I'm that deaf that I couldn't even notice them :'((((
yes people, listen to bass eddy
eddy is nothing in terms of a violinist to this guy
Your deep voice startles me everytime 🧍
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Same!
Asian Wilson fisk
Why startle? I find it calming 😂
I'm a simple girl
I see practice 40 hours
I click :)
You are not alone😂
Same 🤣
#1 tip: Practice with the mindset of a performance 0:52
Practice preparation by:
2:17 thinking about what you're going to do
2:48 don't "doodle impulsively"
#2 tip: Finish the phrase 3:15
3:50 the purpose? To think of the bigger picture & hone your mental/physical stamina
#3 tip: Put your heart into it 4:16
4:41 I never liked practicing - but now I think of it as an "escape"
5:19 Practice is as much about discovering and freeing yourself as getting a particular passage into your system
Many thanks!
I always tell my little students parents, that practicing, is like when a kid must have a bath. You spend like an hour trying to get them into the water, and like three hours trying to get them out of it. You are so right. Once I open the case, I don´t want to do nothing else but playing, just me and my violin. The whole world disappears.
Your voice is very soothing. I dont even play violin but i watched the whole damn video.
Darth Vader Voice of the violin! Love it
Awesome advice... tremendously deep.
Your personality is really starting to shine... keep up the good work!
For me and for a long time, I simply practiced because I really liked the process of learning the works. A long time later I realized that it was helping me escape from a very lonely reality; that was what made music one of the things I love most in life. I wish you good health always. Greetings from Argentina.
Finishing the phrase is a good concept for me. I get so flustered when I make a mistake, I need to learn to push through that discomfort.
I just started lessons again after a 26 year break, and my new teacher has given me a couple of these tips already! I have a bad habit of double or triple checking my first note before starting properly, so I’ll be working hard to break that habit.
Hi, this might be a weird question, but can I buy your youtube channel? Please reply if you want, this is a serious inquiry :)
Hahaha thats great! I came back after 30 years and I have a habit of checking my first note too! But I simply broke that habit in a day cause I just decided I will not do it anymore. Let me know how you doing!
Gift from heaven you are🙏
Excellent, sound advice! Practice is good for the soul. One additional piece of advice: play passages at times not just because you're trying to get them right. Practice the passages because you greatly enjoy them. Remove the frustration through enjoyment and your muscles will respond better.
I like the affirmation of practice as both escape and fulfilment. This is what it has done for me in difficult times. I enjoyed this video. Thank you
Thank youuu soooo much Kerson, we often have that mentality of practice = boring / chore (as you said) / something mandatory, but we forget that we can also enjoy it.
I will try to put your advices on practice now, thaaank youuu sooo soooooo much !!!
Duuude! That's gold! This is what Flesh called Mental Hygiene in practice and it changed my approach to it as well. Completely. Doodle is the worste..
Thank you Kerson 🎶
Many of us were taught the 3hr per day model, but without good specifics... Specifics are actually the most important thing!!
Practicing this way over the last few years, has begun to revolutionize the way I feel and teach learning the violin now. It's a game changer.
Btw, I just discovered your videos and they are wonderful. Thank you!
I love and teach the concept and importance of practice basically always as performance prep! (Fellow Nathan Cole fan here) Beautiful Bartok btw!!
I had a good practice yesterday because I focused on my bowing, and producing a beautiful sound! I wanted to make my songs sound their best and most beautiful I was capable of, and I’m only in Suzuki book one. I went over them because I know them now and wanted each note to sound pretty. I wanted to play from my heart, like I meant it. Now to start viewing it as a performance.
The "finish the phrase" one is so important! If you don't finish the phrase you might end up blocked in your mind because you are afraid of finishing the phrase (that happens to me) because it might not come up as you expected. Great tips!! 😁😁
About the third point, I feel like when I was little I had more fun practicing. It's true that I didn't study methodically the difficult passages but I kinda improved by playing and playing. Since I studied with another teacher, it's true that I've improved a lot technically, but while practicing I only focuse on those things I have to correct, and I don't have as much fun. I guess there must be a balance: working in those difficult passages without ceasing to play it all only enjoying the music ❤️
Thanks Kerson, this video made clear many issue and learn things such as:
- setting mental preparation as if in performance.
-A conscious effort in visualization before is essential for clarity of thought.
-to not doodle with random notes to reassure self and make clear of the passage with no immediate stops
- practice is exploring vulnerability and boundaries of comfort
Now I wanna hear you play the whole of Bartok's second concerto!
A true virtuoso with a creative and brilliant mind-one of a kind especially in this day in which we live.
I needed that! Thank you, mr. Kerson Leong for your inspiration and wisdom🙏🏻
One octave scale vibrato
Kerson: tension release
Scale 60 arp 80
I couldn’t agree more. Thank you for sharing this tip! (PS I’m so glad I found your channel through your performance of Dvorak’s Songs my Mother Taught Me). I opened my violin case for the first time in a long time ~
Thanks Kerson, great advice. I got a great tip from That Viola Kid some years ago: Strive to improve 1% each day. That'll make 365% in a year. That simple thought has had a profound effect on me, and always makes me smile. While I'm here, thanks for all your brilliant videos, you've played a big role in my development. 😊😁
Even better: if you improve 1% everyday, at the end of the year you'll be 1.01^365 ≈ 38 times better
Thank you very much!!! Today, I attempted practicing with all these tips and it already significantly improved the piece I’m playing (Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro). I can already tell that my progress is going to be much quicker than how I used to practice. Thanks!! 🤘👌
i wasn't expecting that voice to come out of you
Thank you for all the great content!!! You are awesome!!!
I appreciate immensely your SERIOUSNESS! ( Your deep voice also projects it as does your playing).
Amazing, you bring the most important things together. I absolutely agree with all you said.
Wasn’t expecting such a deep voice 😅
IKR! haha I have been watching some of his vids playing the violin lately, but I just heard him speak now.
I agree, that your practicing will become more effective if you mean what you play but there is a cost to this type of practice. It requires more energy and it will be harder to be so effective if you do not have sufficient rest of nourishment. Since you need to be entirely present in your mind you also cannot be distracted. It is a significant change in mind but you also have to adjust your daily habits to be able to be productive like this.
Totally agree with this. I always say to myself ‘never waste a note!’
Wow Kerson, thank you for the insight! That's a great mindset to have about practicing. Thanks for sharing this valuable information! :)
Thank you for the wise words Kerson!
It made me realize what practice means to me and still don't know the asnwer. Your tips helped me and will apply in my practice. Thank you for sharinggg!!!
I’m happy I found your channel. And will follow your advice. Thanks again. You u just gain a new subscriber
Your comment is wonderful, even if some of them should be familiar is great to be remained, I’m studying classical guitar and again your comment fits
Perfect in, or how the way to absorb music
Thank you for sharing
This guy is so badass, and his fingers have this kind of a snap to them like they’re connected to a rubber band. You don’t see this everyday.
Marvellous tips. Very insightful. Thanks!🥀
did not expect him to have such a deep voice
Totally needed this. Especially your tip #1. THANK YOU!
I've been struggling with practicing efficiently for quite some time and these tips are great ones! Thank you for sharing these tips maestro it really meant a lot to me.
Great inspiration !!! and also the tone of your voice is wow
It was really helpful! Thank you so much.
would love to have you talk about mozart and how to approach the different challenges the mozartean language brings mostly in the technical aspect aswell with some tips and thoughts of how you should practise it as you did with the etude series
Thank you. Keep on please. This helps us a lot around the world. Hugs from Brazil
Wonderful tips. Some tips resemble those by Nathan Cole. Always practice for performance, don’t doodle. But if more teachers preach the same, we can be sure that it are good tips!
Priceless❤
Kerson, Thank You so much for your insight . I am an adult clarinetist. I started later in life and have been playing for only ten years. I find all your advice and comments applicable to my clarinet playing as well. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and life experience. Much appreciated. Tom F.
I love all of your advise and wisdom thank you for sharing!!! 🙏
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆Ah, I can't wait🥳🥳we have missed you Kerson! 🤗
Love your informative videos and humor🎉. You're funny😂 enjoy watching very much😊
Wow!!! Looking forward!!!
This is so right on. Thank you so much!
Wow. Practice with the mindset of Performance. Thanks a lot
Thank you master Leong!
Guilty as charged, I'm a huge doodler. Those jazz standards are a big earworm, you know!
I love it, kerson-al gets personal
Loved your tips and your voice!! ... I entirely understand what you're trying to say ... During this pandemia I found playing to be like an escape, a moment just for me, to scape and be free in my mind .. I learned so much! Thank you for your videos!
Great work it’s really good work 👍👍
These are amazing tips. Thanks for posting!
"practice with the mindset of performing"
Me, who only has performed to his mom once and shaked like a wash machine the 2 minutes of it: I got it😎
"Don't look Kerson's TH-cam channel while practicing!" haha!
Thank you, I find your videos very interesting and source of new ideas!
So useful and so important! Thank you for all your videos, really great tips and information. You're one of the greatests players today.
I'll be putting these tips to used to see if I can learn new music for my audition in the the next 6 days.
Great practice advice for any instrument! Thanks!
Wonderful tips, Kerson! Thanks for sharing
Please tell me more. Thanks for the practice tips
I really appreciate your tips . I will definitely improve in my violin and piano practice after watching your video
such a cool guy
Thank you soooo much! This could be a game changer for me!😊
You're a good man
Thank you so much !!! It is so helpful ! I will for sure use this tip !
Liked and subscibed!
After work, I know I will be opening the case with a different mindset. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your advice ! 🤗
This is great!
Dont even play an instrument anymore, but these are great tips you can apply to any skill or craft!!
2:52 What are those doodles roughly like? Where might they have been picked up from? I wouldn't mind having something similar under my fngers, though specifically _not_ for doodling!
What are your insights on drinking alchohol and the complexities of violin technique? Obviously if we drink too much, we can't even walk, we can't play violin well. Is there a healthy moderation to drinking and still playing violin well? Or is any small amount of alcohol bad for us professional violinists? I'm curious of your personal insights please! Thanks sincerely!
Very useful; thank you, Kerson.
I love how this video says it was published 16 minutes ago yet some comments are from 4 hours ago. Great tips by the way, I found them extremely motivating!!
40 hours!!
The boss man
Really inspiring tips!Also, loving your Ysaye!!
Thank you for that!!!
So simple, so beautiful--tons of thanks !)
Thanks for the great tips! Could you advise on "safe" gym exercise to do to improve back and arms strength, I'm always scared of tensing up which is no good for violin playing...
But Ling Ling says I should practice 40 hours a day. Joke aside your videos are very interesting videos Kerson. You have one of the most impressive violin sonority I have ever heard.
Preach it, brother
Excellent advice, thank you!
Brilliant, well said!
Every time I see a video of yours, your arms are wider. This mans be making some gains!!
Just discovered you today, what a wonderful channel :)
Great advice!!! Thank you maestro!!! 🙏
The background music is as wonderful as the video 😆🥳🥳🥳
2:37 Ysaye sonata #4 WHEW... . oh... your background music i hear from 3:45 is... paganini cadenza! (i attempted it, so i recognized it immediately)