my warm up routine as an intermediate pianist + free PDF book by Czerny!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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❓Do I really need to ‘Warm-Up’ before my piano practice?
👶🏼From the young age of 6, my piano teaching emphasised the importance of playing scales and chords before practising the pieces. It was drilled into my piano routine, and felt like part of a wholesome practice altogether.
👩🏫 Today, as a piano teacher, I encourage my students NOT to skip a warm-up. To focus on their technical studies and bring more awareness to their body and their posture while they play.
My favourite ways to warm up:
✅Scales (in all key signatures)
✅Playing a fun little study (by Beethoven, Mozart, Bartók…)
✅Do 1 exercise from “School of Velocity” book by Czerny
✅Play an old piece of my choice, usually one I’ve memorised
🤔So if you still wonder, do I really need to practice scales, chords, arpeggios? Should I just skip the warm up, and go straight to my pieces?
🥳Well, the answer is - yes, you can skip scales, other technical exercises if all you wanna do is just play some tunes for your own enjoyment.
😏HOWEVER, if you are aspiring to better your piano skills, technique, the only way to get there is by practising technically challenging repertoire and working on some technical studies 🎹✨
And that’s where a warm up (in my opinion) is essential🔥
I’d like to emphasise the fact that you don’t have to only practice scales to warm up! You can simply warm up by playing some old repertoire, it’s always nice to refresh the memory on your old pieces 😊
“For many, scales and arpeggios are an academic, dry and soulless part of learning the piano, and have to be practiced because, like cod liver oil, they are ‘good for you’. “ - Anthony Williams, ‘The Piano Teachers Survival Guide’ (Faber music, 2017)
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