The Fastest Method to Learn Piano Pieces
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ค. 2024
- If you wish you could learn pieces faster, you are not alone. I know how frustrating it is when we want to learn a piece we love so badly, but it feels like the learning process just takes forever. By the time you are near finishing learning the notes, you are totally sick of the piece already.
In this video, I share with you the method that helps me learn piano pieces within days, not weeks or months. My students do this too and they all say it works wonders. Try this out for yourself and leave a comment to tell me if this works for you.
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🕘 Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:36 What is the Deep Sections Method?
2:23 Repeat 7 times
3:09 No Pedal Use
3:33 Rhythm does not Matter
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What other methods do you use to learn pieces quickly? Share with us fellow pianists 😍
Try match the bass notes to the melody idk
Hi Jazer. Thanks for your meaningful advises! I am a self lerner piano beginner. Question: is there some kind of algorithms for fingering? When I start to learn from sheet music, and there is no information which finger to use for each note, how to find right fingers to play with?
Learning parts hands separately also helps with learning pieces quicker. If I learn how each part goes separately I have 50% less chance of making a mistake if one of my hands messes up when I put it back together.
My instructor said that, play it by reading the sheet music, don't look to your hand. It's okay to play wrong note, or slow, the purpose is to maximaze finger position. So that I can use all five fingers effectively, I tend to not use pinky or move my hand so much.
I tell my students all the time that they should be able to play their whole pieces 3 times through without mistakes before they’re ready for their lesson. Never happens though. Lol.
Works for language learning as well: repeat a phrase 7 times out loud - you'll be delighted how quickly it sticks. 😀
Thanks, I needed this for my turkish studies 🤓
What about learning psalm 12 in a new language, it will be 7 times better with this method 🤩
@@ritajohannessen9804 It'll work. Your tongue and lips need to get muscle memory to learn a language just as much as a keyboard learner has to increase muscle memory.
Great idea way Farer! I will be trying this myself! :)
thank you
I felt this little tutorial seemed to give me a “release”. I felt, “yes, I can see this working. I can do this.”
the best feeling ever
You “sound” like ‘a’ “velcro man”
"Wow!"
Even I can learn a piece in days.........
its just a lot of days.
😁😁😁
If it's 3 days or 392 days that is but a small detail
Ling Ling will be disappointed in you 😁
well, all that matter in the end's that you learned the piece you wanted
Underated
My teacher always insists on something very similar to this: hands separately first before hands together, play slowly and 10 times challenge on each section before you can move on to the next.
Mine said the same
I usually learn hands separately, at least on challenging pieces, get the left hand perfect then begin incorporating the right :)
I do the same, always start with my right hand and then begin to incorporate the left
I just watched this a couple days ago, and practiced INTENSELY using this method to "clean up" a song "Just the way you are - Billy Joel" and just a day or so later the difference is quite staggering! Bits that have been crufty and rough for weeks are sounding smooth already!
(Oh, and some advice I saw on another video - practice the SAME FINGERS every time - I actually write down numbers on the notes so I know which finger(s) to use and when.
THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!
So happy about your progress yesthatguyz!
Really good tutorials. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
@@jazerleepiano thanks
ure so right about the fingers thing. I tell my students that all the time but they don listen T.T
Yep, this really works. Thanks for the advice!
Thanks for confirming that the way I learn is a good one. Self-taught from age 65 when I bought an 1887 Mason & Hamlin screwstringer upright at an auction. Had to learn to read music & play as well as tune and repair by myself. I am now 70 and still enjoying this antique piano which has a bit of problems but I figure it's like me.....getting older by the minute.
Regards,
Carol
How hard is it to tune
@@kertheshima9939 I don't know because I've never tuned any other piano. It's the same I suppose but the strings are placed differently. I tune the middle string then each of the side strings. I don't know if that's how you say it but I get the richest tone I can when all three strings are close in tune. I have the tuning tool and use an app for the tune to acheive.
Me too! 69 years. And two strokes!
Honestly, what I think slows me down the most is, when I learn enough of a song, like a minute or two of it, I just keep playing it over and over because I love it, and I never end up learning the rest xo, I am trying to break that strange habbit!
Ahahaha same, it’s addictive
I DO THE SAME THING
Same
As usual, good advices from you. But, when choosing the piece to learn, it's quite important to be aware of one's ability and then choose piece that is just a little bit challenging. Because, if you choose too hard piece, whatever method of practicing you use, it will not really help you, and the end result will be frustration.
Yup! I hear you,, playing Fur Elise on kindergarten level 😭🤦♀️🤦♀️
It can work, though you have to be *really* invested in the piece to actually power through. But I agree, stretching to far ability wise can be frustrating.
I think it depends on one's mental stamina
Yes, like language learning, finding something just a little bit harder than my level is efficient input. Try searching the difficulty rank of classic pieces, then pick up what you like
@@dogukankaradag1099 You're absolutely right, but I guess majority of the audience of this channel are beginners and people who want to learn piano just for fun. Therefore, majority of them don't really want to invest their life in trying to be as best musician as possible. Btw, I don't want to say that any approach is good or bad. I think the most important part is to never forget the joy of playing music!
What Jazzer is saying “practice smarter not harder”. Just don’t forget, practice makes perfect! That means “don’t practice till you get it correct”. Practice “it” until you can not get it wrong!
exactly, very nicely said
Jazer, you deadset make some of clearest, easy to follow videos that makes it really easy for beginners, the way you explain things is amazing! You're really helping me as a beginner pianist. Keep up the great videos!!
So happy for your progress Jack :) Keep it up!
Agree!
I just found him and can clearly see he's an excellent teacher, and I've had quite a few piano teachers in my time, LOL!
This video changed my life. I'm an intermediate player that play for almost 10 years. Started to use some of your tips like slow practice and connection points and it is insane how much I improved just by doing so. Never imagined that it would be THIS helpful, had to thank you for that 😊
this is so encouraging to read.... i'm an intermediate player as well, played for 10 years then took a break for 5 years. I'm getting back into playing but i want to do it right!!!
I was hoping I would hear advice like this - not keeping to the rhythm is good news, as I always tried to keep it and that really makes it hard as a beginner.
yeah you can always fix it later, just focus on getting the right notes, the right order of notes, and the correct coordination of the left and right hand.
You're one of my go-to for piano learning videos lately, really appreciate the important nuanced content you're creating.
I've learned this same thing while beating my own Mario Levels. You get stuck at a certain point, and then you're forced to play the level from the start. However, it's way better to practice that specific section separately about 7 times then to repeat everything, cause in the end you'd have practiced the start of the level 100 times, and the ending only 1! An even spread, and constant repetition, are key!
last week I learnt the last third of moonlight sonata 1rst movement with this technique of practicing smaller sections until everything was fluid, it was game changing. Thank you very much Jazer!
I haven't tried this yet but it makes a lot of sense. I've watched a number of your videos now and I find them straightforward and useful. You really do seem to want to help people and I appreciate your willingness to take the time and effort to produce these videos. You seem like a very nice person.
I don't think its boring at all. making sure that each note is correct and the fingering correct brings you into the present moment and into the music, rather than just skimming it over and moving onto the next bar. It's getting into the state of appreciation of the composer and understand how he or she composed this bar or section that makes it sound so amazing.
You are really a born teacher. I’m learning by myself this moment and your videos are so helpful. Thanks for sharing Jazer!
I’m learning more practical lessons everyday watching you. I’m going to take to heart the tips and methods on how to practice slow,, plus taking one measure at a time . I like the idea of playing per measure 7 times over and saying how many times you practiced it to really understand the note connectivity .These tips are golden and didn’t learn it when I was a kid. I’m glad you’re breaking it down for your students and your subscribers. Thank you.
You’re such an excellent teacher. I don’t play piano but my friend really got into it lately and I’ve been sending him your content as motivation. Thanks for doing what you do. Such a great teacher and person
Love these videos,Jazer. Please don't stop uploading these. We as piano learners love you.
欲速则不达。More haste, less speed. I wish I'd known about this long ago. Would have saved me years of years of wasted time, with much better results and confidence in execution too. Another great video Jazer!
I would add one addition: I am starting training from checking my progress by playing whole thing from start to current known end and I am making mental notes where I messed up and where it was ok. Then I go to the end and practice on next sections. Then I am going back to problematic sections and polish them.
Love your lessons. I am an adult average player without many lessons but your videos are so sensible and easy to understand. Wish I had had a teacher like you when I was first learning. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I really liked the advice of seeing it as a game where you have to get all the coins. I have always thought of sightreading in those terms and it had made me enjoy sightreading a lot more and has helped me progress faster since then.
7 is a special number in numerology and a perfect number in piano practice. Thanks for great method!
I want to like your comment, but it has 7 likes...
That pause-and-think thing is what I have been doing, though I was never sure if it the right thing to do until now. Thank you Lee!
I love this approach! Recently I found myself just chunking sections that are challenging and practicing them over and over again. I love the rule of seven and not worrying about the rhythm while working out the notes and fingering. As always, thanks for the super insightful content and for sharing your passion for learning and teaching.
Your advice of ignoring rhythm at first speaks big volume to me. I’m 70 learning piano. I tried your method today on Chopin’s Mazurka 68.3 and found major improvement especially on the areas which I had always stumbled on.
Love all of this! I tried the 7x from your earlier video and it has been a game-changer. It's by far from boring, it's a great way to immerse in the piece, which you don't necessarily do when sight-reading from start to end. A tip I've tried before is to start at the end of the piece - take the last bar or two, then the previous, and keep working back. Might sound odd but you're avoiding the first bars great, rest not so good scenario. Thank you!
I saw this tip in a previous video of yours and have been doing it for weeks now - can say it’s super effective! Love your tutorials man, keep it up 👍
I am a mathematics teacher in South Africa, I picked up the piano after having some lessons back in primary school. I used TH-cam videos to learn and I have come a far way. Really proud of the music I can play, but my music never seemed to flow, I always had trouble with some parts of songs. After using this method it was like ironing out a dress after you made it. It has improved my sound so much. THANK YOU!
Your intro perfectly described by first two years of learning piano. I became very frustrated that I wasn’t seeing much progress and I am an older player with no time to waste ;). This technique offers little frequent “wins” which will to keep me motivated. I plan to start this tomorrow with a piece I am learning. Thanks so much, I enjoy your videos!
Valuable, Jazer! I'm 73, and restarting piano/keyboard after a 30 year break! Already I've learned on my own something I think is of great value: IF I DON'T RELAX, nothing works right! So I just relax, relax, relax, and play just a measure (or two) at a time, playing all the notes in there. In the USA we say measure, and you say bar. :) Often I play just the melody and then add in the bass clef. If I mess up (you say stuff up!) I just smile and try again (and again) !!! I've subscribed! And clicked on "all" on the Bell icon!
That's a great advice.
Thanks a lot for these tips! I found the 7 times method great! Playing one hand separately 7 times, and then together slowly. Works like a charm! 😁
Complete beginner here, I am obsessed with your videos! I already feel like I have such a head start
Thank you for all your guidance! I consistently come back for more ways of having focused practice methods to improve my playing 🤙🏼
used it since the video came out, and im loving it! thank you very much!
Jazer, I’ve been struggling with piano for well over a decade. Spent thousands of dollars on lessons with many teachers, read books on theory, paid for various apps and learning softwares and this might be the single video that changed my playing the most almost immediately. Thank you thank you!
A+ tutorial. I have been using this method for years and it always has the greatest return on investment for time spent. This method can also be extended to other studies. Clear, concise, to the point, and presented wonderfully. Subscribed.
That one is the best advise I have seen so far. My personal experience of playing start to finish pieces flawlessly has been a total disaster for years. I will follow your suggestion and hope to improve my piano learning. Thanks.
I've been taking a very similar approach to practice (focused more on organ) so this is very interesting to see. The specification of 7 accurate repeats is the biggest take away for me - I've just been repeating an arbitrary amount of times before moving to each next section. Thank you for the dedicated insight!
This is just brilliant. This method locks in the neural pathways, piece by piece, strengthening the synapse connections along the way. I'm an intermediate player, and found this to immensely helpful - thanks much!
omg ive been wanting to learn this song from a game for so long but just always overwhelmed by how complicated it is. thank u for making this
I took piano lessons 50 years ago (yikes!) and, though my husband brought his acoustic piano with us when we married in 1981, I never played it much. He bought me a digital piano last Christmas so I can play with headphones while he works from home. I am, in other words, starting over. I'm so happy to have found your channel! I'm applying your lessons to my very old books. Yesterday, I started working on just the two-bar transition from up to down in Hanon, rather than trying to go as fast as possible like before!
I'm Spanish and I use your chanel for learning piano and English at the same time. That's awesome!!! Really thankful about the content.
This encouraged me to practice again, for the 5th time today, practicing is honestly addictive for me, I just love learning the songs that make me feel emotions so deeply
I haven't played since 2008. Now I'm trying to learn hymns to play at church and this method has helped me tremendously get back into the groove after just 3 weeks of practice! It's discouraging after being so good to be back to beginner level but I keep plugging along and watching your old videos to keep up my motivation. Thanks!
THANK YOU! I was feeling stuck on one song. I'm following a lesson plan in a book series for beginners. From my experience of being in choirs, I was repeating sections that I was struggling with the most, but my progress was very slow. I used this method tonight & feel like I made so much more progress in just a couple of hours than I have in the last couple of weeks. So THANK YOU AGAIN!
I just started 2 weeks ago playing piano and Ive been watching your channel, it helps me a lot to learn faster and more efficient!
Great video! These videos of tips to learn a piece are the best. We spend so much time learning pieces, that any tip to improve the process is truly welcome.
I got one more piece of advice for new players. Keep watching these kind of videos on a regular basis if you practice alone. I watch lesson and practice videos for improving my skills of course but these videos explaining how to be more productive give a good way to feel accompanied in your learning. I mean it just motivates me and the good vibes from them just keep me relax. Plus, the advices are gold. Thanks for the great work
Great video! One tip my piano teacher gave me along these lines is that even when practicing as slowly as possible, it's important to visualize where you want your hands to go *before* you move your fingers *at all*. That may seem obvious, but my teacher pointed out I was just slowly moving my hands from note to note rather than really understanding where I was supposed to be going. Sometimes it even helps to have your eyes closed or not looking at the keyboard because it forces you to really think about what the next note is as opposed to relying on not-fully-developed muscle memory. A gamble, as Jazer calls it.
I am a self learner for 4 months now and I am learning a lot from you. Thank God that I found a channel like this.
Just ordered my Casio CT-S1BK. Haven't played in 20 years. I remember we used to do this in band and do little check boxes everytime we got it right. We'd have to practice with a fresh sheet for recitals because our practice sets were so tattered.
I miss it, and can't wait to get back to it.
Thanks for the content Jazer! I have practiced with your recomendations and its going great!
This was so helpful❤️ no more weeks spend on the piece I practice!! Thank you for an amazing work!
Being a complete beginner who happens to be quite a slow learner for piano, this really is useful! Thanks for sharing mate. Subscribed
Hi Jazer!
I saw this video in mid-November 2021 and used this method. I've been playing a little piano piece by Beethoven (6 ecossaises) for almost 20 years, but never flawlessly. With your method I have made more progress in 3 months than in the last 20 years. It really works!!! Thank you very much for your work and many greetings from Vienna!!! 👋😄
Works amazing. Also explains why I always end up learning the intro thoroughly and quickly. I always end up repeating the intro til I figure it out and then do larger and larger sections later
Great video. I have just started piano but have been playing guitar many years, and that's what I normally do to learn something. Every time you do something right you're reinforcing the brains neural pathways of what you just did. Better to enforce those correct ones slowly and broken up than the wrong ones played fast.
This is a piano method but I'm definitely going to apply this to learning songs on guitar. We need more methods like this in the guitar community. Thank you Jazer for the helpful tips!
Thank you Jazer, it’s a great advice. I’ve listened to all your tips.
I've been using this method myself in the synthesia app as it has a nice looping functionality. Definitely works really well for picking up the fingerings of a song very quickly.
I have just started learning and have already started this right out of the gate. It really helps. Coming across this video today just gave me a boost and let me know I'm doing something right.
Jazer I absolutely love your channel! I only started playing around 6 weeks ago and my teacher says all of the same things you do, but I only have him 1 hour a week so having your tips and advice available 24/7 has been such a huge help!
I am currently learning the scales and Arpeggios of c and g and have also made it about 1/3 of the way through Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi by using this very techniques playing small sections slowly, accurately and multiple times before moving on and my progress is getting quicker and quicker as I learn more about the notes, patterns and my technique improves 😁
Please keep the content coming!
Hi, Jazer. Your practice advices are very much appreciated. You are so friendly and charming person. Warm greetings from Norway
Great advice! At the end of the day all that we are, mirrors in all that we do. I'm a bit impatient myself, haha. After a severe burnout I try not to overexert myself anymore. I stop practicing "before" I get tired or lose focus. Joy and relaxation are key components for me. Don't compare yourself to others, don't be in a hurry. Be patient, stay curious, be playful:)
This is pretty awesome. I've been told something similar but not with all the elements of the deep sections method. Thank you!
I've just returned to playing after a 15 year break, and I've fallen foul of the 'taking a gamble' with passages. It happens even more often if I'm in a social setting and have had a drink (although a small occasional one has helped with confidence). Breaking down into sections works incredibly well. Thanks :)
Thanks for telling this way. Will definitely try it!
this was so helpful! thank you jazer
That is GREAT!! And exactly what I was looking for. THANKS
As an accordion player for 10 years now, listen to this guy, he knows
I tried this a few weeks ago and it really works well for me. Thanks!
This was amazing man, thank you so much, humility is key in order to learn music.
I love this tip and how well you explain anything really, but also your enthousiasm is really contageous :)
Encouraging - especially for those of us who have trouble using both hands together. I'm going to try this! Thanks, Jazer!
Thank you for these great advices! At first I thought: Oh wait, I'm already using this method. I always broke pieces down into small manageable sections. But then I realized how much I was gambling through them. I'm quite impressed by the improvement, I experienced in just one week.
This is a really good video, from which I got a lot! The importance of pausing to continue with the correct choice of notes, means the brain will take that in more deeply and store it. Playing things incorrectly even slightly, will mean the brain does not store the correct one when it happens. So taking your time to get it right, is actually faster in the end.
I couldn't agree more. As an adult beginner, 1y ago i have started using this method intuitively and it works!
Wow, I have been taught by my music teacher for over 6 years since I was maybe 6/7 and I always remember being taught in this way. Now that I am beyond grade 8 I usually see a piece I like and would like to play it, sometimes I’m unsure how I should go at learning it but then I usually end up using that method I was taught and it gets me through my pieces. This video had great nostalgia for me and took me back to when my teacher would make me do the same section again and again 😂. This video was really clear and I just wanted to comment and say I really enjoyed it and I think you explained the method very well. Thank you for the video ( I know it was 2 years ago) but continue to make more. 👍🏼
Yes my teacher taught me this too as it sticks in the memory and makes you more proficient. Thanks
That's excellent, I'm so excited to try this. It takes pressure off learning!
Thankyou very much for teaching us this method..because i am also practicing that piece for months …and now i can use this method❤️❤️👍👍
This is extremely useful! I did this to learn clair de lune and now on my 5th weekend I think its quite polished and I have it memorised. funny thing is, I did this method without knowing it and I felt like I was doing something wrong because it wasn‘t like I was taught but it was just so effective
Thanks again Jazer for a grest tip ! Keep it up ! Always waiting for a great video from you... Greetings from Argentina !
Amazing. As a professional tennis coach I have been using this method for 35 years. As a struggling pianist of the last 10 years it never occurred to me. Thx Jazer.
I will check it out! Thank you for this video!
I follow you all the time, you are great teacher and always giving good advice. Thank you
Excellent and effective methods. Appreciated your making this video. It has been a great journey for me to learn piano and it works. Thank you!
Thank you!! I did this to play Maple Leaf Rag. I sat with it before and gave up because I was getting frustrated. Doing this helped out a lot. Thanks!!
This absolutely worked for me when I was learning Debussy’s Arabesque No.1. Not to say that I have it down perfectly now, but I was able to play it decently from memory after about a week!
It has been two days since I watched this, and put it to use on a song where I was practicing the easy parts over and over for like a year and somehow not making progress. Now I know the song, and it's getting smooth.
It's a revelation. That's extra weird to me because it's similar to how I learned lines for acting. I wasn't a great actor, but I was good at memorizing tons of text because, as you talk about in the video, I'd go through and pronounce every syllable no matter how awkward, and work intensely on small chunks at a time. Your technique works for more than piano, and more than music.
I believe you had a similar video some time ago and I used the method then to learn Bach's Prelude in C. Perfect piece for this method since it is so repeatable and easy to divide into chunks.
Wow, great advice Jazer. Makes me really motivated to get back to the keyboard... even though my tendons are a bit shot from practicing too much today (have taken vacation days from work). It makes all of those almost unsurmountable pieces look a tiny bit more doable.
Incredible helpful! For me this is a complete game changer.
Thank you so much!
wow Thank you very much for the deep section method. I tried it and it works just like you said. I am so happy I watched this video
i don't understand why is this channel is sooo underated, like a hidden treasure. I learn a lot from this channel, thanks lee ily