PRO TIP From someone who studied with Russian pianists. Add to your study method the tips from this video which are very helpful Plus the extra tip: Work from the hardest part to the easiest part, analyze which part of the piece is more difficult for you and then divide the parts with letter or symbols and apply all of the tips from this video but working always from hardest to easiest. I hope that someone finds this helpful :)
My teacher is from Belarus and plays at a high level with a DMA- he would agree and he would agree with a lot of what this video says about practice techniques.
This is genuinely the most well rounded, thought out, systematic piano practice method video I’ve ever watched. I have seen videos where they talk about 1 of the methods shown but this combination of these is really something else
As a beginner of 4 weeks now, I really appload your advices. They are very pertinent and well appreciated. God bless your generosity and your channel, young Man!
Hey thank you I do like your video. I'm an older pianist. Now that I'm older I realized I should have always stuck with what my teacher taught me. Learning a piece one hand at a time is the same thing my teacher told me. I appreciate these types of videos thank you. PS even learning one bar at a time slowly is the way to go for me:-)
Sounds extremely logical! I have been playing for 3,5 years and I must admit that never truly practice with true focus and meaning. I will apply this method to my next piece and see how well it works. Thanks so much
As an adult Piano learner, ex I.T. teacher, and fellow Aussie, I can definitely say the following. That here in Australia there are far too many Piano Teachers that look at adult learners as just someone who is giving the instrument a try and will soon give it up. Hence they don't really put in the effort that they do for younger learners, and just look at adults as a source of income. The Piano Teachers that I have had have not followed any curriculum. They've just gone with what they think on the day and in the lesson. The teachers that I have had, except for one, have had very little teaching skills. And from my experience none were really competent in the evaluation aspect of students learning. I was never once asked by a teacher what I actually do not understand about a theoretical subject of learning music from the beginning. Nor was I ever shown by any teacher what a certain element of notation sounds like in it's elementary form when played on a Piano. Never once was any measure broken down into it's constituent parts, and played as such. It was always just jumping on to something else when I was struggling with a concept or piece. Every teacher was like that. None of them followed through on a subject or piece. It was mostly about them showing off how well that they played, and talking for an hour about themselves. This cost me thousands of dollars. And I've learnt more from watching TH-cam videos and reading books than I ever have from a Piano Teachers. So if your an adult piano learner reading this, make sure that the teacher you have chosen is skilled enough to be able to deliver the required knowledge to progress you on your chosen path. Because there are certain skills that you need to learn and master before you can progress at piano. Piano lessons for adults here in Australia are riddled with incompetent scammers. And no, I am not referring to Brian in this comment.
Yeah, that was really good! For some reason I'm really stubborn when it comes to making my practice more effective, but just as an experiment I'll follow your steps to a T for my next few pieces
I learned to play by ear, took music theory in college and have been watching music instruction video for about 15 years here on TH-cam. Through all my playing, and listening, this is excellent advice. I don't play classical music, I don't have the patience to play a piece as many times as you guys require for it to be perfect. I play jazz repertoire that's a lot more forgiving.
Jazz musician here (sax). I found at a higher level of jazz, the hours, repetition and keys take just as much or more time. That is if you really want to improvise using classic jazz idioms phrasing and 'language' and be able to do it at speed in multiple keys.
Loved your video on how to be smart, effective, and efficient. I really appreciated your attention to detail and how to approach the piece with your methods! Two thumbs up Jeff
Great advice! I'm an advanced player who never was taught how to learn pieces. I just powered through them. I wish I had this decades ago. Thanks and good luck.
Great advice! I love these tips very much! I would love to add only one small tip on top of yours. I recently noticed that memorization and understanding of pieces has increased as I started writing many comments on various parts of a score. For instance, progressions, repetions, chord types, harmonic changes, fingering and etc. I use an iPad size e-ink book for that which makes it very comfortable to write something and delete/adjust later.
Guitarist of 45 years just starting out on piano. Aside from the left right hand thing on guitar I approach new pieces like this. It is great advice. The slow thing is really powerful but convincing my students of its value is difficult. In fact most who fail do so because they just want to rush to be able to perform and end up doing badly as a result.
I was taught that, for slow practice, you still have to move _between_ notes as if playing to tempo: sound note(s) --> think --> move quickly to next note(s) --> & so on.
I found this information very useful and even though I already know these things I wasn’t putting them into practice which makes all the difference. So I’m going to follow this and see if it leads to mastering the instrument 👍🏼good stuff
I love your video. I was glad to see that I instinctively all methods in that exact way. Speed is still where I have the most trouble because I haven't been studying the piano for too long, but I'll keep going. Thanks!
Great video! As a long time musician myself, all of these tips were what I was thinking before you started! Another thing that's probably naughty and not good to teach new players is that once they're comfortable playing a piece perfectly at speed, you can practice it over tempo so it feels like slow mo when playing at full speed. But yeah, with how often new players struggle to practice slowly, telling them to practice fast later on is probably a terrible idea 😅
Great advice and guidance. Great to make the connection from deliberate, one thing at a time practicing to feeling satisfied and having a sustainable practice routine.
I really like your tips, you summed them up and presented them quite nicely. Thank you! I also appreciate that you stopped inserting background music into your videos. Now I can understand you much better.
Thank you so much for your video on how to be more effective in practicing piano, Lieu. I wrote down all your methods and instructions. Thank you! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💖🙌🏽 Great advice and I can’t wait to update you on my progress 💃🏽
Legend I have subbed because I find your way of explaining stuff is really simple and to the point and I can apply it immediately!!!! Your method here makes me feel like I can play anything I want to. I particularly liked the slow practise I need to slow down, no more bum notes woohoo!!!
You give methods that will make me way better at playing piano. Im playing for almost 2 years (learning music theory and taking piano courses ) i almost hate practicing piano and i know im very slow to progress. This video is golden ! I like to play piano but not practice
The right method of practice depends largely upon the mood you're in at the moment and your personality type. But what I believe to be the best method is to try and incorporate different methods in real time, synchronizing it with how you're feeling while practicing. If you feel energized and optimistic go for a more thorough technique, when bored just play and pray, and so on.
In a way this applies to other instruments as well - even the 2 hands apart thing! Eg there can be an intonation session followed by a bowing one for string players
Super helpful video dude! Kinda reminds me of the nuggets my piano instructor has been dropping as well. This helps reinforce some of them, putting them together and making practice more "effective and efficient"
Thanks for the awesome tips! I've just picked up classical music again but i just didn't know how to practice properly, this video should help me out a ton! 😁
Great video! I advise you, when learning a large piano composition, to start from the end. It's better remembered that way. And I also suggest that you differentiate the piece into smaller parts and apply the methods that were outlined in the video UPD: And do not forget to practice every day, because the system -- that's the main thing!
Not only. Starting from the end is also more motivating. By every new section you learn, you ever land in a known part. Starting from the beginning, you ever fall in more work, more unknown.
Enjoying your videos, thank you for sharing knowledge. Any tips on how to memorize music more quickly and efficiently? Finding it quite a challenging process.
One thing you have said is both hand apart and learn the whole piece. As a piano player for many years and played around 5k hours. I think it’s better to learn like a line or 5 bars before setting it togheter, because it gives the human brain some happiness to get the hands togheter and it can easier motivate persons to work more on it
You forgot my favorite method which truly changed my playing and brought it to the next level: learn by heart, immediately. First the hands separately then together by heart. Once you start systematically doing this (it's quite hard in the beginning), the speed required to learn a new piece (within one's level of course) is like 4x smaller!
This was a fantastic video with easily understood, quantifiable goals. Thank you! In polyphonic pieces, the hands cannot be separated so easily. In particular, when inner voices are split between the hands, it's unclear how or what to practice. How would you apply or adapt the strategies in this video in order to handle a piece like Bach's a minor Sinfonia, for example?
Think of each voice as an individual entity instead of the two hands. Sing each voice as you play it until you are able to keep it in your ear and sing it back without the piano. The ultimate challenge is being able to sing one voice while playing the other(s). Do this with all combinations of voices (1+2, 2+3, 1+3, etc.). Difficult but rewarding. Finally, when putting all three voices together, practice bringing each one out while playing the others pianissimo. It'll teach you amazing control over the voicing and will give you ideas of what you want to bring out in your interpretation. Just some ideas I've learned from past teachers. Good luck!
Liked and subscribed. I'm 18 months into learning piano as an adult and this was a really helpful, succinct, and motivating video on practice techniques. I can say that method 1,2, and 3 I've used (I struggle with going slow, but it's the thing that gives me the quickest progress when I can force my brain to do it 🙃). Would love to see a video on refining pieces. Particularly methods for playing one hand loud and the other soft, it's my pain point right now. I can do hands seperate but dynamics seperate is the ultimate struggle bus for me!
@@più_lento_28_13 I've been working through the RCM books, so right now I'm level 1 having completed prep A and prep B with a teacher (no tests though). I really enjoy learning new pieces so I haven't really taken on anything more advanced because I like moving on after awhile with them. I find the RCM books are engaging in variety, so it's good that way. I tried the Alfred adult books and it wasn't for me. What about you? I was telling my teacher last week that I'd like to try for something a little more advanced then where I am, a stretch piece, but I don't even know what to try, any suggestions? Oh also I only practice about 30 minutes 5 days a week. I can't focus past that amount of time.
@@mindymac_does_stuff that’s awesome ! well even in our learning process we’re pretty much similar, though in my case i finished the Alfred 1. It took me several months and now, with my teacher, we’re going through the RCM 1 book. We’ve only done a few pieces from there and at the moment he assigned me a slow movement of a Mozart Sonata (nothing too fancy obviously). If i had to suggest you a piece, i’d say one of those that we did and weren’t on the theoretical books, either « The song of twilight » by Yoshinao Nakada, or J.S Bach’s « Minuet in G » (the one in G minor is great too depending on your taste). His prelude in C is good to learn too even tho i haven’t yet. My teacher told me that Bach pieces are great for technique. And it wasn’t way above my level (so you too i guess). That’s pretty much it , I’m no more advanced than you so that’s all i can say haha. By the way, do you have a goal dream piece that you wanna play one day ?
In your video ”5 things I wish I did when learning the piano” you practice two lines with hands seperately and then eventually practice those two lines with hands together. Should i learn the whole piece with hands separately first like method 1 in this video, or break the whole piece down into smaller sections and use method 1-4 on each section?
Slow practice is very effective. Do people need to play hands separate before putting them together? For more challenging pieces definitely. Some pieces the LH & RH parts are so straightforward that slow practice would be sufficient for a player with experience without practicing hands separate first. When talking about the LH playing softer than the RH, "Minuet in G" isn't a good example. It's an pre-19th century piece written for a harpsichord without dynamics. It's generally acceptable to play Baroque pieces with both hands at equal volume although playing the RH louder would bring out the melody. It's better to use a Chopin Nocturne like Op. 9 #2 for an example.
I am playing the organ, I have to first play slowly with both hands to figure out the best fingering. I will try to practice hands seperately after that for my next piece.
Thanks for this interesting video. I have a personal question for you. Is there an method to play the piano even when your fingers don't fit between the black keys. Are there specific instructions for the position of the hand or fingers that can help me out? I hope you find time to answer this question. 👌
Thanks for this. Im wondering what do I need to work on if I am finding that for faster pieces I am sacrificing power of the notes and they are blending together? I have smaller hands. Is it related to seating position, and any other easy changes I can make, or is it just a matter of simply playing a crapload to build up finger strength?
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PRO TIP From someone who studied with Russian pianists.
Add to your study method the tips from this video which are very helpful Plus the extra tip:
Work from the hardest part to the easiest part, analyze which part of the piece is more difficult for you and then divide the parts with letter or symbols and apply all of the tips from this video but working always from hardest to easiest.
I hope that someone finds this helpful :)
Great advice for sure! You might as well face the devil sooner than later. :)
My teacher is from Belarus and plays at a high level with a DMA- he would agree and he would agree with a lot of what this video says about practice techniques.
I wish you had been my teacher when I was competing! Great suggestions!
This is genuinely the most well rounded, thought out, systematic piano practice method video I’ve ever watched. I have seen videos where they talk about 1 of the methods shown but this combination of these is really something else
Yeah and you have multiples methods of difficulty very clear video also
As a beginner of 4 weeks now, I really appload your advices. They are very pertinent and well appreciated.
God bless your generosity and your channel, young Man!
What seems to be most helpful from this is actually the requirements! They are useful benchmarks for progressing in a piece, thank you
Hey thank you I do like your video. I'm an older pianist. Now that I'm older I realized I should have always stuck with what my teacher taught me. Learning a piece one hand at a time is the same thing my teacher told me. I appreciate these types of videos thank you. PS even learning one bar at a time slowly is the way to go for me:-)
Sounds extremely logical! I have been playing for 3,5 years and I must admit that never truly practice with true focus and meaning. I will apply this method to my next piece and see how well it works. Thanks so much
As an adult Piano learner, ex I.T. teacher, and fellow Aussie, I can definitely say the following. That here in Australia there are far too many Piano Teachers that look at adult learners as just someone who is giving the instrument a try and will soon give it up. Hence they don't really put in the effort that they do for younger learners, and just look at adults as a source of income. The Piano Teachers that I have had have not followed any curriculum. They've just gone with what they think on the day and in the lesson. The teachers that I have had, except for one, have had very little teaching skills. And from my experience none were really competent in the evaluation aspect of students learning. I was never once asked by a teacher what I actually do not understand about a theoretical subject of learning music from the beginning. Nor was I ever shown by any teacher what a certain element of notation sounds like in it's elementary form when played on a Piano. Never once was any measure broken down into it's constituent parts, and played as such. It was always just jumping on to something else when I was struggling with a concept or piece. Every teacher was like that. None of them followed through on a subject or piece. It was mostly about them showing off how well that they played, and talking for an hour about themselves. This cost me thousands of dollars. And I've learnt more from watching TH-cam videos and reading books than I ever have from a Piano Teachers. So if your an adult piano learner reading this, make sure that the teacher you have chosen is skilled enough to be able to deliver the required knowledge to progress you on your chosen path. Because there are certain skills that you need to learn and master before you can progress at piano. Piano lessons for adults here in Australia are riddled with incompetent scammers. And no, I am not referring to Brian in this comment.
Yeah, that was really good! For some reason I'm really stubborn when it comes to making my practice more effective, but just as an experiment I'll follow your steps to a T for my next few pieces
I learned to play by ear, took music theory in college and have been watching music instruction video for about 15 years here on TH-cam. Through all my playing, and listening, this is excellent advice. I don't play classical music, I don't have the patience to play a piece as many times as you guys require for it to be perfect. I play jazz repertoire that's a lot more forgiving.
Jazz musician here (sax). I found at a higher level of jazz, the hours, repetition and keys take just as much or more time. That is if you really want to improvise using classic jazz idioms phrasing and 'language' and be able to do it at speed in multiple keys.
Loved your video on how to be smart, effective, and efficient. I really appreciated your attention to detail and how to approach the piece with your methods! Two thumbs up Jeff
Great advice! I'm an advanced player who never was taught how to learn pieces. I just powered through them. I wish I had this decades ago. Thanks and good luck.
That was great! Simple and clear AND you used a simple piece that any player of the piano can relate to. 👍
Great advice! I love these tips very much!
I would love to add only one small tip on top of yours.
I recently noticed that memorization and understanding of pieces has increased as I started writing many comments on various parts of a score. For instance, progressions, repetions, chord types, harmonic changes, fingering and etc. I use an iPad size e-ink book for that which makes it very comfortable to write something and delete/adjust later.
Guitarist of 45 years just starting out on piano. Aside from the left right hand thing on guitar I approach new pieces like this. It is great advice. The slow thing is really powerful but convincing my students of its value is difficult. In fact most who fail do so because they just want to rush to be able to perform and end up doing badly as a result.
Great points! I will refer my piano students. Thank you. 👍
Great reminders we all need to hear from time to time. Like your systematic way of thinking!
Best video on HOW to practice. Doing it! I can now play through the first two sections of Graceful Ghost perfectly hands separately from memory.
I was taught that, for slow practice, you still have to move _between_ notes as if playing to tempo: sound note(s) --> think --> move quickly to next note(s) --> & so on.
Extremely helpful. Thank you and your time is appreciated.
I found this information very useful and even though I already know these things I wasn’t putting them into practice which makes all the difference. So I’m going to follow this and see if it leads to mastering the instrument 👍🏼good stuff
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I love your video. I was glad to see that I instinctively all methods in that exact way. Speed is still where I have the most trouble because I haven't been studying the piano for too long, but I'll keep going. Thanks!
Very helpful video. Thank you.
Great video! As a long time musician myself, all of these tips were what I was thinking before you started! Another thing that's probably naughty and not good to teach new players is that once they're comfortable playing a piece perfectly at speed, you can practice it over tempo so it feels like slow mo when playing at full speed. But yeah, with how often new players struggle to practice slowly, telling them to practice fast later on is probably a terrible idea 😅
Thanks! I tend to be all over the place, learning but getting nowhere.
I'll put some discipline and tidy up things a bit!
Great advice and guidance. Great to make the connection from deliberate, one thing at a time practicing to feeling satisfied and having a sustainable practice routine.
This is an excellent set of tips thank you!
Good advice. It's the Chuan C. Chang method I follow in the book 'Fundaments of piano practice'.
Thank you from Belgium for all your advices ❤
I really like your tips, you summed them up and presented them quite nicely. Thank you!
I also appreciate that you stopped inserting background music into your videos. Now I can understand you much better.
Thank you so much for your video on how to be more effective in practicing piano, Lieu. I wrote down all your methods and instructions. Thank you! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💖🙌🏽 Great advice and I can’t wait to update you on my progress 💃🏽
looking forward to hear it!
Thank you! You explain things really well. I liked the video game analogy!!
Great video! Very informative and great editing!
Great advice! and you make it sound real logic so i will definitely take your advice! Subscribed 😊
Legend I have subbed because I find your way of explaining stuff is really simple and to the point and I can apply it immediately!!!!
Your method here makes me feel like I can play anything I want to. I particularly liked the slow practise I need to slow down, no more bum notes woohoo!!!
You give methods that will make me way better at playing piano. Im playing for almost 2 years (learning music theory and taking piano courses ) i almost hate practicing piano and i know im very slow to progress. This video is golden !
I like to play piano but not practice
Thankyou that was very smart and practical advice. 😊
The right method of practice depends largely upon the mood you're in at the moment and your personality type. But what I believe to be the best method is to try and incorporate different methods in real time, synchronizing it with how you're feeling while practicing. If you feel energized and optimistic go for a more thorough technique, when bored just play and pray, and so on.
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Great tips!
This video is moving into my brain space.
Thank you for the explination it wil help me practise better and more efficiënt.
I liked this video, good format and informational. Thank you.
In a way this applies to other instruments as well - even the 2 hands apart thing! Eg there can be an intonation session followed by a bowing one for string players
This is the video I needed to see, thank you
This was a great video. Very informative. I'm a beginner and will definately be using these methods and techniques.
Super helpful video dude! Kinda reminds me of the nuggets my piano instructor has been dropping as well. This helps reinforce some of them, putting them together and making practice more "effective and efficient"
Really creative way of explaining everything!
Thanks for the awesome tips! I've just picked up classical music again but i just didn't know how to practice properly, this video should help me out a ton! 😁
Great video!
I advise you, when learning a large piano composition, to start from the end. It's better remembered that way.
And I also suggest that you differentiate the piece into smaller parts and apply the methods that were outlined in the video
UPD: And do not forget to practice every day, because the system -- that's the main thing!
Not only. Starting from the end is also more motivating. By every new section you learn, you ever land in a known part. Starting from the beginning, you ever fall in more work, more unknown.
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Thanks for your effort to help us beginners, we appreciate it! byeeeee :D
Thank you boss 👏. Super informative.
Nice video! Really enjoyed!
Enjoying your videos, thank you for sharing knowledge.
Any tips on how to memorize music more quickly and efficiently? Finding it quite a challenging process.
this is it!!! such a useful video!!!
great tips. thank you
Thank you this was really😁 helpful
glad it helped! :)
One thing you have said is both hand apart and learn the whole piece. As a piano player for many years and played around 5k hours. I think it’s better to learn like a line or 5 bars before setting it togheter, because it gives the human brain some happiness to get the hands togheter and it can easier motivate persons to work more on it
Great vid ! maybe add some hard compression on the voice channel, I'll help keeping volume controlled
You have presented all the points in good way. Best wishes for the growth of your channel
You forgot my favorite method which truly changed my playing and brought it to the next level: learn by heart, immediately. First the hands separately then together by heart. Once you start systematically doing this (it's quite hard in the beginning), the speed required to learn a new piece (within one's level of course) is like 4x smaller!
Excellent. Content rich. Brief.
Thank you sooooo much for the tips 😍
So what you’re saying is I can get my 40 hours in everyday in just 4 hours?
Great stuff. I have heard similar things before, but not in a structured way like this. Thank you so much - instant subscribe here 😊.
Excellent advice. Thanks.
Great video, thank you for these practice strategiesI. Although I new them you were able to give some extra tips.
Alright man, I liked it. Keep it going bro!!!
Nice video thanks man!
Thank you, very sound advice!
This was a fantastic video with easily understood, quantifiable goals. Thank you!
In polyphonic pieces, the hands cannot be separated so easily. In particular, when inner voices are split between the hands, it's unclear how or what to practice. How would you apply or adapt the strategies in this video in order to handle a piece like Bach's a minor Sinfonia, for example?
Think of each voice as an individual entity instead of the two hands. Sing each voice as you play it until you are able to keep it in your ear and sing it back without the piano. The ultimate challenge is being able to sing one voice while playing the other(s). Do this with all combinations of voices (1+2, 2+3, 1+3, etc.). Difficult but rewarding. Finally, when putting all three voices together, practice bringing each one out while playing the others pianissimo. It'll teach you amazing control over the voicing and will give you ideas of what you want to bring out in your interpretation. Just some ideas I've learned from past teachers. Good luck!
i loved this video. thank u so much!!
This is very informative. Great video, you deserve more subscribers
Very good advice.
Loved the video thank you so much! 🌟
Liked and subscribed. I'm 18 months into learning piano as an adult and this was a really helpful, succinct, and motivating video on practice techniques. I can say that method 1,2, and 3 I've used (I struggle with going slow, but it's the thing that gives me the quickest progress when I can force my brain to do it 🙃). Would love to see a video on refining pieces. Particularly methods for playing one hand loud and the other soft, it's my pain point right now. I can do hands seperate but dynamics seperate is the ultimate struggle bus for me!
wow, we started at the same time !! i was wondering, what’s the most advanced piece that you’ve learned/practiced so far ?
@@più_lento_28_13 I've been working through the RCM books, so right now I'm level 1 having completed prep A and prep B with a teacher (no tests though). I really enjoy learning new pieces so I haven't really taken on anything more advanced because I like moving on after awhile with them. I find the RCM books are engaging in variety, so it's good that way. I tried the Alfred adult books and it wasn't for me. What about you? I was telling my teacher last week that I'd like to try for something a little more advanced then where I am, a stretch piece, but I don't even know what to try, any suggestions? Oh also I only practice about 30 minutes 5 days a week. I can't focus past that amount of time.
@@mindymac_does_stuff that’s awesome ! well even in our learning process we’re pretty much similar, though in my case i finished the Alfred 1. It took me several months and now, with my teacher, we’re going through the RCM 1 book. We’ve only done a few pieces from there and at the moment he assigned me a slow movement of a Mozart Sonata (nothing too fancy obviously).
If i had to suggest you a piece, i’d say one of those that we did and weren’t on the theoretical books, either « The song of twilight » by Yoshinao Nakada, or J.S Bach’s « Minuet in G » (the one in G minor is great too depending on your taste). His prelude in C is good to learn too even tho i haven’t yet. My teacher told me that Bach pieces are great for technique. And it wasn’t way above my level (so you too i guess). That’s pretty much it , I’m no more advanced than you so that’s all i can say haha.
By the way, do you have a goal dream piece that you wanna play one day ?
What an amazing video, congrats!
I enjoyed your presentation and will implement the concepts in my practice routine. My one question is when do you start the memorization process?
thank you, so underated
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In your video ”5 things I wish I did when learning the piano” you practice two lines with hands seperately and then eventually practice those two lines with hands together. Should i learn the whole piece with hands separately first like method 1 in this video, or break the whole piece down into smaller sections and use method 1-4 on each section?
Slow practice is very effective. Do people need to play hands separate before putting them together? For more challenging pieces definitely. Some pieces the LH & RH parts are so straightforward that slow practice would be sufficient for a player with experience without practicing hands separate first.
When talking about the LH playing softer than the RH, "Minuet in G" isn't a good example. It's an pre-19th century piece written for a harpsichord without dynamics. It's generally acceptable to play Baroque pieces with both hands at equal volume although playing the RH louder would bring out the melody. It's better to use a Chopin Nocturne like Op. 9 #2 for an example.
Thanks for sharing this
I am playing the organ, I have to first play slowly with both hands to figure out the best fingering. I will try to practice hands seperately after that for my next piece.
Thanks for this interesting video. I have a personal question for you. Is there an method to play the piano even when your fingers don't fit between the black keys. Are there specific instructions for the position of the hand or fingers that can help me out? I hope you find time to answer this question. 👌
thank you Master
Wow this is great stuff
Excelente, muchas gracias, like, suscripción y activada la campanita de notificaciones, saludos cordiales desde Lima-Perú 🇵🇪
Great, thanks!
Great post. Thanks. I’m playing way too fast.
Thanks for this. Im wondering what do I need to work on if I am finding that for faster pieces I am sacrificing power of the notes and they are blending together? I have smaller hands. Is it related to seating position, and any other easy changes I can make, or is it just a matter of simply playing a crapload to build up finger strength?
Great video thanks
As a four mallet marimba player, I was able to use many of these techniques in my practice.
Great Video!
great advise
Inspiring!
Great video! At what stage do you recommend memorising - as you're learning it or should you wait until the piece is nearly finished?
Great video, subscribed.
Awesome vid