@@NahreSol Hey Nahre I really hope you can tell me how you came up with the opening riff of your tango piece. I am DYING to know. Hope you can respond when you can.
This reminds me a lot of the concept of 'tactical periodisation' training in soccer. Things like using the football in training even when training something completely different. Essentially training everything in a context closer to that in which it will be used. Doesn't just make training less boring, but also more effective.
"You need to over-compensate in order to master something" - that's revealing, thank you for pointing this out inside an instruction on how to achieve it 🍎
🍎 I didn’t figure this out when I was an instrumentalist and I *did* quit. ☹️ That was a long time ago, but this and many of your other videos have inspired me to consider going back and picking up my viola again. Thanks for your generous and brilliant insights! 💕
LOL this is hilarious. One time in college my piano professor came into my practice room and caught me practicing Bach while watching the office on netflix and I was so ashamed LOL. But in all fairness, it's the perfect show to watch while practicing because there's no background music!!
My university's music program is amazing, especially for piano. I auditioned as a mostly self taught musician and was accepted. Then I got there and suddenly my teacher was a superb pianist with an international career, the practice rooms reserved for pianists all had baby Steinways, and I got overwhelmed. Practicing became so difficult because I kept hearing the other students playing and comparing myself, and also my teacher told me to keep track of how long I practiced each piece (+ technique like scales) and I really didn't like that because it made me feel defeated if I felt like I'd been playing something for an hour and it turned out to be 30 minutes. She sat me down midway through the semester and told me that I should be practicing for at least 3 hours a day, but that it had to be GOOD practice, not just running my pieces over and over. Anyway, I just did my final jury for my first semester and got all As, which is a testament to my teacher, really. I'm inspired by my good jury results to do better, GOOD practicing next semester and these are just the tips I needed! I easily get bored and frustrated, especially if it's something to do with technique. I'm definitely going to use these tips next semester!!!
I haven't commented before but honestly, thank you for existing. As a self-taught wannabe pianist (and long term subscriber) , your videos have always been a source of knowledge, motivation and inspiration. Hopefully, this channel will grow more, and you'll keep bringing us amazing content like this.
Active learning! All of your techniques and suggestions are very relevant to adult learning. If you engage the learner in new and interesting ways, it will help to make the learning more efficient and meaningful, thereby also improving retention! Thank you for sharing!
It's also super helpful when you aim for PERFECTION at every iteration (during repetitions). When you try to play each without making any errors with rhythm, fingering, note, articulation, dynamic, etc., your brain will be fully engaged. Which is the point of Nahre's suggestion in this video: Make your brain engaged.
This is such an important tip/method/inside/enlightenment for "boring" practices.. For any skill and I don't know anything bout music other the loving it and listening to it
@@NahreSol sure :) been following for a long time now but for some reason YT recommended me your stuff only now.. Anyways, these learning methods are gold for outside of music learning too, so keep it up :)
Nahre is so damn good. Not only does she within minutes get me at my piano bench , she also reminds of how much better I could be. In a good way though lol
I'd be more than happy if it would make me feel like anything close to Salieri. Unfortunately it just makes me feel like.....uhhmm.. well.... ...me myself 😉
Normally I don't write comments, but this time I want to get rid of something: Since I discovered you on RUclips, my attitude of being a musician has changed. You are a great inspiration and I enjoy your music very much. I finally got my unfinished compositions out of the shelf , which have been lying there for years, and I improvise and compose as much as I can. I have been working differently on the piano and all different kind of works since I saw your videos. And I start getting more in touch with my creativity, which makes me very happy. Thank you very much for everything. Keep up the good work! I am very much looking forward to what is yet to come :)
As a bassist and guitarist I find interesting to do is tapping an underlying rhythm to what I'm playing. Once I know how to play it to the original I can mix it up a little, maybe move the beat forward or back e.g. a quarter or eighth note. Apart from that humming or whistling a melody over the practice piece works too.
This reminds me of what my violin teacher calls "etudizing" passages. She encourages me to create my own etudes around parts I need to work on. I can adjust them to add complexity or fit specific aspects I need to work on and make it sound musical. But I am creating my own personal practice method around it.
In the past year while practicing Bach I've been having improvised tangents, there are so many interesting harmonies / passages to expand and play with. You have solidified the concept in this video, thank you!
I've been watching your classes on youtube and even though I play classical guitar, your daily study tips have helped me dedicate myself more seriously to the guitar.
thank you for these ideas! As a kid practicing always felt like a boring chore, just repeating things because i *had to*. For a while I stepped away from music but a while back I came across a music therapist that helps her clients avoid pain in their hands by helping them relax by rediscovering the joy of playing. When playing is about pleasure (enjoying the sound and even just the feeling of playing) then often their pain faded away. Since then I've been trying to always focus on the pleasure and joy of just making music, and your recommendations are helping so much. thank you!
This is really good advice. As a drummer I do this type of thing all the time. Taking basic rudiments like paradiddles and incorporating them into drum fills or even making entire grooves based around them has made practicing much more fun than just repeating the same rhythms on a practice pad.
I don't even play an instrument Nahre but I'm subscribed and I watch videos like this because what you say is always so well explained and worth listening to.
This is useful not only for piano but everything in general. Nowadays the idea of active learning is gaining steam. Btw, kudos for performing a snippet of the thirds etude which is really hard. PS. 🍎
I admire so much that you are so creative!....always able to reinvent yourself as a musician. You send us all off on/to the Right path. Thank you so much.
I cannot express how refreshing and encouraging I find all that you say. I am an amateur, only learnt at music school for 5 years, yet I feel I am really musical. But all that I ever received from music teachers was drill, rigour, criticism and discipline. I struggle to allow myself to play and your videos help a great deal in the struggle.
It is always good to turn on the internet and see healthy piano players setting aside a little time to encourage. Society, I think, appreciates this. I seem to be following woman…. piano players on RUclips (not intentionally) and this woman is one of my favourites. She does her job wonderfully. 🥸
I've been trying to do creative practice since watching some of your precious videos, and it honestly has been THE one thing that has helped me get back to playing piano and practicing again!!
3:44 explains the objective where repetition is the no-brainer 'drone' to the vector on your trajectory. I can see this work with Guitar and not just travis picking. Nahre, your video presentation skills, your graphic skills, your sense of humour with charming snippets, your way of simply speaking to the camera and relating the topics -- let's just say there are 20 more thumbs up RUclips isn't allowing me to register.
Yeah, this advice would be useful to anyone, in any field. That's why I love watching tutorials about other instruments, there are so many people who can help you actively learn --and Nahre is one of the best when it comes to imparting advice. Nahre speaks from a place of wisdom and experience, which is why her videos are so extremely useful, and valuable to me (as someone who is only a piano noob).
As non-pianist, I enjoy your videos and I sit on the piano we have here in my house to try at least to play with right hand whenever I watch you. You inspired me.
I love this concept so much. I'm a guitar player, but before I started with guitar as a kid, I tried both piano and violin, and couldn't stay focused on either one. I never understood why until recently, when I realized that while my piano and violin teachers packaged their lessons in that dry, dull, monotonous fashion, my guitar teacher always packaged his as little songs, and that kept me way more focused and engaged. I've been using this trick to teach myself piano as an adult, and it's such a huge difference maker. Fantastic video!
Edited to add: 🍎 This is what I kind of do! I choose goal pieces that I really want to learn, and then I find the techniques in the piece that I can’t yet do. I then find intermediary pieces that have a pared-down version of that technique to use as a stepping stone! Like i needed to get better at left hand arpeggios for Barque Sur L’Ocean, so I learned the second movement of Beethoven’s Tempest sonata, which is full of left hand arpeggios and rhythmic isolation
you are my favorite classical music composer and communicator. I sincerely wish you all the best, success and satisfaction. You deserve this and more. Thanks for your wit and fun I've always thought that the way you share is the best way to study the technique: by creating something but no one had ever told me that... and in such a smart and amusing way. I'm thinking of starting to study piano again after many years... and you are really a great encouragement. Thank you
🍎 Nahre Sol, thank you so much. You have such great talent as a musician and thinker. It is so kind of you to share your piano playing, insights, approaches and compositions. All your videos are perfection. Very best wishes to you!
I didn't know other people did this lol. I thought I was alone. Making up melody or harmony to go with my other hand that is doing measures from songs that are too hard for mee to play that fast lol OwO. I did try watching tv but then I started making mistakes.
Rhythmical variation is usually enough to keep me engaged with the material, but I still love to use this method on arpeggiated passages. Picked it up from a video of yours 2-3 years ago and it profoundly changed the way I think about practicing. As for slow Bach pieces, I like to try and improvise a Busoni-style arrangement. That way I’m much more conscious of what is going on harmonically and it is also significantly less boring than just practicing the voices over and over. Anyways, thanks so much and keep up the great work!
Watching this video, i felt grateful to discover that I've always instinctively been applying this method to my music practice sessions. Now that I can call it 'creative repackaging" i can stop feeling like i'm procrastinating and fooling around by not being more strict and sticking the exact exercise at hand.
🍎 I’m still dreaming of having you as my piano teacher 😊. Please keep doing these kind of videos about practicing and other kinds of piano playing tips. I found it very enjoyable and inspiring to watch. And I would also love to hear more about your piano/musical journey.
This is such good teaching 😍 articulating what some people have kind of been doing (ie me) but also extending it so it’s more explicit and I feel I have more direction rather than vaguely doing it. Thank you!
Thanks! Just rushing off to the piano now to try this! It’s also reassuring to see that even good pianists need to use repetition to master tricky bits. I like your down-to-earth approach to viewers - not elitist and show-offs. Very helpful. London
One of My favorite Videos of you, Nahre! Since I‘ve seen it for the first time I’ve been practicing Chopin Etüde n.5, like this, especially its middle part. That works just great!
thanks great advice, with the countless hours you spend at the piano and your passion on the subject this coupled with the way you play ....you have won me over..massive thanks..
Thank you so much. I've been stuck with the first bar of Ravel's sonatine for too long now. I'll isolate the right hand and create a mini-piece around it!
can you isolate the right hand? the hard part is not crashing into the other hand when playing hands together. You could still do a lot with it; isolate 2 bars of a couple of notes around it and play random chords and just jump into the section at random moments. Change the tremolo into a different beat, try it in another key. But before you do any of that, make sure you know how to place and move your hands through the passage. People always talk fingering and forget hand placement and choreography. And when you start the piece, empty out you lungs, breathe in and start playing on the exhale. Watch for tension in odd places: locked jaw, hips, abs. Mentally, I find that practicing difficult passages for an extended period of time can do one of two things; 1, eliminate a fear response or 2. reinforce a fear response. This is why it's important to consciously state what you are doing and how you are doing it and to have a means to relax the body and the mind as you practice.
@@SputnikExperiment Thank you for your advise! The "relaxing the whole" part was definately missing from my practice. I have two challenges on the first measure. The first one is switching from F# chord to C#, keeping the pattern and tempo consistant in 32 at tempo. This can definately be isolated Second difficulty is to keep the tempo & sound quality consistant while alternating LH G, RH E-G-E, LH G. It's not too constraining on the left hand, I can play around with it. I'll play the long lost Metamorphosis 6 by Philippe Glass :D
@@jonathanscher try this: first, play the melody alone with the RH 5th finger. No tremolo, nothing. Just place 5 on the note and roll forward and sink into the key [arm weight]. When you move from note to note, use syncopated pedaling to connect the phrase [pedal legato, you'll thank me when you get to the D major chord and will have to release the left hand to move to the E and later to the F#7add9 in bar 6]. When you do this, watch that you don't add extra pressure to the keys when you're holding the note. Can't move the hand when there's a downward force. Don't press, just sit there. When you play the actual piece you might want to use 3 and 4 on some of the melody notes. Make use your thumb muscle is relaxed when you do this. Step 2: the left hand thumb starts the tremolo on every beat. It's important to get the thumb out of the way. Lifting will tense up the thumb; I would forearm rotate the thumb out or lift the arm ever so slightly by using the held bottom note as an anchor/pivot. Step 3, add the tremolo. Hands together my LH thumb ends up between 1 and 2 in of the RH up to about the 3rd line. Ok, it's been years since I looked at this piece. Let's just say that Nahre's suggestion is great when you know the piece cold and just need to do the reps. And it's a great tool to learn to trust yourself. Notice that when you do her suggestion, the mind is focused on the chords/fills you choose and not the technical passage. I once knew a violinist who would recite his telephone number and address for the same reason -- to keep the mind from interfering with itself. You don't always have a free hand to play around with. [here, or in fugues for instance]
I have just discovered your videos today, and I’ve left comments on a couple of them, but after watching only 30 seconds of this one I am already so uplifted by meeting a kindred spirit! I do this exact same thing when trying to practice and I am nowhere near the pianist that you are. To make tedious things in one hand feel at least like part of a musical creation to keep me more interested is a wonderful concept. Thank you !
🍎And me, who is new to the piano, I find that this way of practicing opens up possibilities for me towards composition. Learning while having fun is definitely more effective.
Very helpful, indeed! You’re developing so much more than the repetitive motion. Actually, the repetitive motion along with some of those arpeggios in the left-hand could be the basis for a composition!
As a brass player, so much of what we do just to keep our embouchures flexible and strong consists of exercises (slurring between harmonics, pushing upward and downward on our range, practicing all the different articulations). This can get pretty boring and can push your chops into a "rut" - Nahre's approach would mean constantly varying your warmup to address all the issues you need to, but creating variations to keep your approach to the instrument fresh. Creating your own etudes! Thanks so much - I love this channel.
Once warmed up, woodwind players (especially) get very attached to the standard exercise books. I think it's a signal to other players how hard they're working. That's a disincentive to a really fresh approach - you kind of need to have _mastered_ the exercise to start varying it.
Yes. And yes. Today I began, on guitar, with Csus4. After a bit something I've never done before occurred. Through the transients and borrowed notes appeared Dmin11. From there it was a smile. There were Gs and whatnots afterwards, yet the point was, as you say, explore and go for it. There is nothing dull lest we make it so. Well done, you. Thank you for this.
From the get go I have a mental block about the idea that "practicing doesn't have to be boring, also. I fear I'll spend to much time focused on "making it interesting" that I won't be focused on the thing I want to master.....oh yea....great video, keep it up, you are inspiring.
i just want to say as someone with severe unmedicated (fixing that soon!!) adhd, ive never heard of this style of practicing until now and im on a journey to play the piano again after not touching it in over a decade, my first 2 months have been very fun, but i felt like the practice routines i came across were just severely understimulating for me, this just changed my whole perspective on it and now practicing is just as engaging and dynamic as i want it to be, thank you!
I honestly needed this video. I'm a Violinist, and in orchestra we're playing this piece called Bachanale. Oh my god it is so frustrating to play. It's repetitive and the fingerings are weird to me and I just hate it! I get frustrated everytime I practice specific hard sections. The only good thing about it is that because it's so repetitive the moment I master those tricky parts, I'll have the entire song down! I'll definitely take your advice. Repackaging and adding creative melodies and stuff anything so I don't just blow it off the rest of the day.
I know you mentioned you don't have to be a composer, but as a person that writes their own music, I often do this type of thing, and it inspires me to take it into new directions and write new music. So you are absolutely right about it being engaging and facilitating creativity!
It’s a really great method, and you demonstrate it so well. I’m going to shamelessly use this with my piano students, which by now are very familiar with several of your videos. Thanks for your efforts! 🍅
You're one of the reason i get way more fun creating exercise than learning tunes x) I'm so glad you made it into a video :) (which is actually alright because composing takes almost the entirety of my mental space these days) Also i just made a thread about practicing without a personal teacher on my twitter (@mf_composer), if you'd like to check in and maybe add to the discussion it'll be super cool
Thank you Nahre for your tips. Love your video pieces and have pointed you to a friend pianist who feels 'stuck' in classical music and would like to 'unlolock' possibilities with his playing. Thank you for your efforts!
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Okay, but to be completely honest you look like you're having more fun practicing on the left of the thumbnail XD.
Haha yes I thought so too while editing 🤣
It's a "stressed- but-almost-stank-face"
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@@AsrielKujo Sup dude.
@@NahreSol Hey Nahre I really hope you can tell me how you came up with the opening riff of your tango piece. I am DYING to know. Hope you can respond when you can.
This is what Chopin taught as well, according to his students. He very strongly was against non-musical practice.
that's crazy right, who'd thought of avoiding non-musical practice when you're practicing music
@@metroidandroid yeah but it seems like sometimes you have to play things that don’t sound musical to boost your technical abilities
Who were chopin's students?
@@saintbees2088
I dunno off the top of my head, I'm not a historian. It's something I read and regurgitated. Look up how Chopin was as a teacher.
@@metroidandroid hanon comes to mind I suppose. (I love Hanon)
This reminds me a lot of the concept of 'tactical periodisation' training in soccer. Things like using the football in training even when training something completely different. Essentially training everything in a context closer to that in which it will be used. Doesn't just make training less boring, but also more effective.
This is so interesting!!! Thank you for this!!!
Could you elaborate what activities you mean exactly? Like going to a gym, but still playing football? :)
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What have I become? I can't just hear "repetition" without my mind adding "legitimizes" now...
Still that was a great video !
😅😅😅
Repition legitimises
REPETITION LEGITIMIZES *dead stare*
Repetition legitimizes
Repetition...
"You need to over-compensate in order to master something" - that's revealing, thank you for pointing this out inside an instruction on how to achieve it 🍎
This is marvelous! The bonus part of this method is that you can become a composer along the way without even being aware! 🍎
Thanks Bati!!!! 😁🙏🏻
I noticed that too! 👍😊 👏Nahre👏
🍎 I didn’t figure this out when I was an instrumentalist and I *did* quit. ☹️ That was a long time ago, but this and many of your other videos have inspired me to consider going back and picking up my viola again. Thanks for your generous and brilliant insights! 💕
viola gang
LOL this is hilarious. One time in college my piano professor came into my practice room and caught me practicing Bach while watching the office on netflix and I was so ashamed LOL. But in all fairness, it's the perfect show to watch while practicing because there's no background music!!
Since there's no background music, did you ever find yourself "writing a score" for what you were watching?
@@peaceofkake1085 yup
now I understand the frog pianist memer and why he is becoming viral
perfect story for why musicians deserve to be made obsolete via software playback algorithms like Note Performer
No music, unless Dwight is accompanying Michael on one of his offensive songs, or Andy and Dwight are in a banjo vs. guitar showdown!
Excellent advice - thank you!!!
bru I am still trying to find the vowels of every note to imitate timbre of my instrument
the problem: *i play strings* 😭
My university's music program is amazing, especially for piano. I auditioned as a mostly self taught musician and was accepted. Then I got there and suddenly my teacher was a superb pianist with an international career, the practice rooms reserved for pianists all had baby Steinways, and I got overwhelmed. Practicing became so difficult because I kept hearing the other students playing and comparing myself, and also my teacher told me to keep track of how long I practiced each piece (+ technique like scales) and I really didn't like that because it made me feel defeated if I felt like I'd been playing something for an hour and it turned out to be 30 minutes. She sat me down midway through the semester and told me that I should be practicing for at least 3 hours a day, but that it had to be GOOD practice, not just running my pieces over and over. Anyway, I just did my final jury for my first semester and got all As, which is a testament to my teacher, really. I'm inspired by my good jury results to do better, GOOD practicing next semester and these are just the tips I needed! I easily get bored and frustrated, especially if it's something to do with technique. I'm definitely going to use these tips next semester!!!
I haven't commented before but honestly, thank you for existing.
As a self-taught wannabe pianist (and long term subscriber) , your videos have always been a source of knowledge, motivation and inspiration.
Hopefully, this channel will grow more, and you'll keep bringing us amazing content like this.
Active learning! All of your techniques and suggestions are very relevant to adult learning. If you engage the learner in new and interesting ways, it will help to make the learning more efficient and meaningful, thereby also improving retention! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for the comment!!
It's also super helpful when you aim for PERFECTION at every iteration (during repetitions). When you try to play each without making any errors with rhythm, fingering, note, articulation, dynamic, etc., your brain will be fully engaged. Which is the point of Nahre's suggestion in this video: Make your brain engaged.
your videos are so well produced that they could be classified as works of art. 🍎🍎🍎
Thank you so much!!!! 🙏🏻🍎
This is such an important tip/method/inside/enlightenment for "boring" practices.. For any skill and I don't know anything bout music other the loving it and listening to it
Yes!! Thank you for the comment ☺️
@@NahreSol sure :) been following for a long time now but for some reason YT recommended me your stuff only now.. Anyways, these learning methods are gold for outside of music learning too, so keep it up :)
Nahre is so damn good. Not only does she within minutes get me at my piano bench , she also reminds of how much better I could be. In a good way though lol
Love the way she talks with her hands.
watching nahre practice on the piano , makes me feel like salieri at the keyboard . in the mozart movie .
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I'd be more than happy if it would make me feel like anything close to Salieri.
Unfortunately it just makes me feel like.....uhhmm.. well....
...me myself
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@@mayiask654 😹
Great advice. I am reluctant to dedicate myself to perfect repetitive portions or get my runs where they need to be... This could help.
I hope it helps, thank you!!!
Normally I don't write comments, but this time I want to get rid of something:
Since I discovered you on RUclips, my attitude of being a musician has changed. You are a great inspiration and I enjoy your music very much.
I finally got my unfinished compositions out of the shelf , which have been lying there for years, and I improvise and compose as much as I can.
I have been working differently on the piano and all different kind of works since I saw your videos. And I start getting more in touch with my creativity, which makes me very happy.
Thank you very much for everything. Keep up the good work! I am very much looking forward to what is yet to come :)
This was as much a composing lesson as it was a practice lesson. Thankyou! 🍎
Thank you back!!! 😁🙏🏻
Yes! This is just how I practice improvisation; start with a note, phrase, or chord, and start messing around with patterns.
Brilliant idea Nahre, will def be trying this out!
As a bassist and guitarist I find interesting to do is tapping an underlying rhythm to what I'm playing. Once I know how to play it to the original I can mix it up a little, maybe move the beat forward or back e.g. a quarter or eighth note.
Apart from that humming or whistling a melody over the practice piece works too.
This reminds me of what my violin teacher calls "etudizing" passages. She encourages me to create my own etudes around parts I need to work on. I can adjust them to add complexity or fit specific aspects I need to work on and make it sound musical. But I am creating my own personal practice method around it.
In the past year while practicing Bach I've been having improvised tangents, there are so many interesting harmonies / passages to expand and play with. You have solidified the concept in this video, thank you!
What are tangents? I had a google cuz I’m also into Bach, but I couldn’t find anything about it. 😊
I've been watching your classes on youtube and even though I play classical guitar, your daily study tips have helped me dedicate myself more seriously to the guitar.
thank you for these ideas! As a kid practicing always felt like a boring chore, just repeating things because i *had to*. For a while I stepped away from music but a while back I came across a music therapist that helps her clients avoid pain in their hands by helping them relax by rediscovering the joy of playing. When playing is about pleasure (enjoying the sound and even just the feeling of playing) then often their pain faded away. Since then I've been trying to always focus on the pleasure and joy of just making music, and your recommendations are helping so much. thank you!
Me watching a video on how to practice correctly...while practicing .-.
The best strategy 😅
I'm a classical double bass player and I find your advice is always so focused for everyone who plays any instrument! Thank you.
I just really appreciate your message. I hope I can share this with my students as I work on this myself.
This is really good advice. As a drummer I do this type of thing all the time. Taking basic rudiments like paradiddles and incorporating them into drum fills or even making entire grooves based around them has made practicing much more fun than just repeating the same rhythms on a practice pad.
Awesome!!! Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I don't even play an instrument Nahre but I'm subscribed and I watch videos like this because what you say is always so well explained and worth listening to.
This is useful not only for piano but everything in general. Nowadays the idea of active learning is gaining steam. Btw, kudos for performing a snippet of the thirds etude which is really hard.
PS. 🍎
Thank you!!! 🍎🙏🏻
"Active learning"? I might want to look into that further.
@@samuelitooooo popular study channels are speaking about this
The most effective practicing method that I've known in my whole life... Thank you so much Nahre for this
The smooth and natural touch is beautiful, and I can play it as I imagined, which is very enviable. You look amazing.
Thank you!!!
I admire so much that you are so creative!....always able to reinvent yourself as a musician. You send us all off on/to the Right path. Thank you so much.
I cannot express how refreshing and encouraging I find all that you say. I am an amateur, only learnt at music school for 5 years, yet I feel I am really musical. But all that I ever received from music teachers was drill, rigour, criticism and discipline. I struggle to allow myself to play and your videos help a great deal in the struggle.
Wow, this is just what I needed! It combines learning sheet music with improvisation and gets you better at both, thank you!!
I’m not practicing piano, but you’re a great teacher and this will help me a great deal. Thank you.
It is always good to turn on the internet and see healthy piano players setting aside a little time to encourage. Society, I think, appreciates this. I seem to be following woman…. piano players on RUclips (not intentionally) and this woman is one of my favourites. She does her job wonderfully. 🥸
I've been trying to do creative practice since watching some of your precious videos, and it honestly has been THE one thing that has helped me get back to playing piano and practicing again!!
3:44 explains the objective where repetition is the no-brainer 'drone' to the vector on your trajectory. I can see this work with Guitar and not just travis picking. Nahre, your video presentation skills, your graphic skills, your sense of humour with charming snippets, your way of simply speaking to the camera and relating the topics -- let's just say there are 20 more thumbs up RUclips isn't allowing me to register.
Thank you so much!!! That means a lot to me 🙏🏻😁
Yeah, this advice would be useful to anyone, in any field. That's why I love watching tutorials about other instruments, there are so many people who can help you actively learn --and Nahre is one of the best when it comes to imparting advice.
Nahre speaks from a place of wisdom and experience, which is why her videos are so extremely useful, and valuable to me (as someone who is only a piano noob).
As non-pianist, I enjoy your videos and I sit on the piano we have here in my house to try at least to play with right hand whenever I watch you. You inspired me.
THANK YOU! I also thank you for bringing life to classical training.
Soo helfull, and magic at the same time. Just started to get a kind of bored while practising some trills. Great teaching-Thank you!
I love this concept so much. I'm a guitar player, but before I started with guitar as a kid, I tried both piano and violin, and couldn't stay focused on either one. I never understood why until recently, when I realized that while my piano and violin teachers packaged their lessons in that dry, dull, monotonous fashion, my guitar teacher always packaged his as little songs, and that kept me way more focused and engaged.
I've been using this trick to teach myself piano as an adult, and it's such a huge difference maker. Fantastic video!
Missed your content, idk how I didn't visit your videos since a past few months, hope you're doing well , glad to see you again💕
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This is what I kind of do! I choose goal pieces that I really want to learn, and then I find the techniques in the piece that I can’t yet do. I then find intermediary pieces that have a pared-down version of that technique to use as a stepping stone! Like i needed to get better at left hand arpeggios for Barque Sur L’Ocean, so I learned the second movement of Beethoven’s Tempest sonata, which is full of left hand arpeggios and rhythmic isolation
Smart!!! And thank you!!! 🙏🏻🍎
This is by far one of the best vids I've seen on this subject and piano playing in general. Great work!
you are my favorite classical music composer and communicator.
I sincerely wish you all the best, success and satisfaction.
You deserve this and more.
Thanks for your wit and fun
I've always thought that the way you share is the best way to study the technique: by creating something
but no one had ever told me that... and in such a smart and amusing way.
I'm thinking of starting to study piano again after many years... and you are really a great encouragement.
Thank you
Your video editing scratches an itch I didn't know I had.
🍎 Nahre Sol, thank you so much. You have such great talent as a musician and thinker. It is so kind of you to share your piano playing, insights, approaches and compositions. All your videos are perfection. Very best wishes to you!
thanks Nahre! the quality of these videos keeps getting better
Thank you!!!
I take the same approach for my drumming students. I’m glad you’re passing it around 😊👍
I wonder why you wonderfully exist in this platform, but there is no single violinist who has a channel like yours. Like wtf. We need it.
thank you for getting straight to the point!! i clicked on the video and immediately got what i wanted! you’re amazing!!
I didn't know other people did this lol. I thought I was alone.
Making up melody or harmony to go with my other hand that is doing measures from songs that are too hard for mee to play that fast lol OwO.
I did try watching tv but then I started making mistakes.
Amazing!!! 😁
I love the way your left hand moves.
Honestly ingenious. You're working on technique, creativity, hand independence, your ears and composition skills at the same time.
Rhythmical variation is usually enough to keep me engaged with the material, but I still love to use this method on arpeggiated passages. Picked it up from a video of yours 2-3 years ago and it profoundly changed the way I think about practicing. As for slow Bach pieces, I like to try and improvise a Busoni-style arrangement. That way I’m much more conscious of what is going on harmonically and it is also significantly less boring than just practicing the voices over and over. Anyways, thanks so much and keep up the great work!
Watching this video, i felt grateful to discover that I've always instinctively been applying this method to my music practice sessions.
Now that I can call it 'creative repackaging" i can stop feeling like i'm procrastinating and fooling around by not being more strict and sticking the exact exercise at hand.
SO SO SO smart! BRILLIANT strategy. Thank you!
🍎 I’m still dreaming of having you as my piano teacher 😊. Please keep doing these kind of videos about practicing and other kinds of piano playing tips. I found it very enjoyable and inspiring to watch. And I would also love to hear more about your piano/musical journey.
This is such good teaching 😍 articulating what some people have kind of been doing (ie me) but also extending it so it’s more explicit and I feel I have more direction rather than vaguely doing it. Thank you!
Thanks! Just rushing off to the piano now to try this! It’s also reassuring to see that even good pianists need to use repetition to master tricky bits. I like your down-to-earth approach to viewers - not elitist and show-offs. Very helpful. London
I think this is the single best advice for practicing piano I’ve heard
One of My favorite Videos of you, Nahre! Since I‘ve seen it for the first time I’ve been practicing Chopin Etüde n.5, like this, especially its middle part. That works just great!
That is some of the best advice to get away from the monotony of practicing. Awesome!
thanks great advice, with the countless hours you spend at the piano and your passion on the subject this coupled with the way you play ....you have won me over..massive thanks..
This video is absolutely fun. 😄🙌🏽 Thanks, Nahre! 🍎
Thank you so much. I've been stuck with the first bar of Ravel's sonatine for too long now. I'll isolate the right hand and create a mini-piece around it!
can you isolate the right hand? the hard part is not crashing into the other hand when playing hands together. You could still do a lot with it; isolate 2 bars of a couple of notes around it and play random chords and just jump into the section at random moments. Change the tremolo into a different beat, try it in another key. But before you do any of that, make sure you know how to place and move your hands through the passage. People always talk fingering and forget hand placement and choreography. And when you start the piece, empty out you lungs, breathe in and start playing on the exhale. Watch for tension in odd places: locked jaw, hips, abs.
Mentally, I find that practicing difficult passages for an extended period of time can do one of two things; 1, eliminate a fear response or 2. reinforce a fear response. This is why it's important to consciously state what you are doing and how you are doing it and to have a means to relax the body and the mind as you practice.
@@SputnikExperiment Thank you for your advise! The "relaxing the whole" part was definately missing from my practice.
I have two challenges on the first measure. The first one is switching from F# chord to C#, keeping the pattern and tempo consistant in 32 at tempo. This can definately be isolated
Second difficulty is to keep the tempo & sound quality consistant while alternating LH G, RH E-G-E, LH G. It's not too constraining on the left hand, I can play around with it.
I'll play the long lost Metamorphosis 6 by Philippe Glass :D
@@jonathanscher try this: first, play the melody alone with the RH 5th finger. No tremolo, nothing. Just place 5 on the note and roll forward and sink into the key [arm weight]. When you move from note to note, use syncopated pedaling to connect the phrase [pedal legato, you'll thank me when you get to the D major chord and will have to release the left hand to move to the E and later to the F#7add9 in bar 6]. When you do this, watch that you don't add extra pressure to the keys when you're holding the note. Can't move the hand when there's a downward force. Don't press, just sit there. When you play the actual piece you might want to use 3 and 4 on some of the melody notes. Make use your thumb muscle is relaxed when you do this. Step 2: the left hand thumb starts the tremolo on every beat. It's important to get the thumb out of the way. Lifting will tense up the thumb; I would forearm rotate the thumb out or lift the arm ever so slightly by using the held bottom note as an anchor/pivot. Step 3, add the tremolo. Hands together my LH thumb ends up between 1 and 2 in of the RH up to about the 3rd line. Ok, it's been years since I looked at this piece.
Let's just say that Nahre's suggestion is great when you know the piece cold and just need to do the reps. And it's a great tool to learn to trust yourself. Notice that when you do her suggestion, the mind is focused on the chords/fills you choose and not the technical passage. I once knew a violinist who would recite his telephone number and address for the same reason -- to keep the mind from interfering with itself. You don't always have a free hand to play around with. [here, or in fugues for instance]
I have just discovered your videos today, and I’ve left comments on a couple of them, but after watching only 30 seconds of this one I am already so uplifted by meeting a kindred spirit! I do this exact same thing when trying to practice and I am nowhere near the pianist that you are. To make tedious things in one hand feel at least like part of a musical creation to keep me more interested is a wonderful concept. Thank you !
You do such a good job entertaining us. Smart, approachable, fun and musical
🍎And me, who is new to the piano, I find that this way of practicing opens up possibilities for me towards composition. Learning while having fun is definitely more effective.
Thank you for inspiring us, I really love to hear such practical advice, and entertaining, and it’s wonderful to hear you play and explain
Nahre, this is so so good. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us.
Very helpful, indeed! You’re developing so much more than the repetitive motion. Actually, the repetitive motion along with some of those arpeggios in the left-hand could be the basis for a composition!
As a brass player, so much of what we do just to keep our embouchures flexible and strong consists of exercises (slurring between harmonics, pushing upward and downward on our range, practicing all the different articulations). This can get pretty boring and can push your chops into a "rut" - Nahre's approach would mean constantly varying your warmup to address all the issues you need to, but creating variations to keep your approach to the instrument fresh. Creating your own etudes! Thanks so much - I love this channel.
Once warmed up, woodwind players (especially) get very attached to the standard exercise books. I think it's a signal to other players how hard they're working. That's a disincentive to a really fresh approach - you kind of need to have _mastered_ the exercise to start varying it.
Nahre, your creativity is fantastic!!!
Thank you so much!!
Yes. And yes.
Today I began, on guitar, with Csus4. After a bit something I've never done before occurred. Through the transients and borrowed notes appeared Dmin11.
From there it was a smile.
There were Gs and whatnots afterwards, yet the point was, as you say, explore and go for it. There is nothing dull lest we make it so.
Well done, you. Thank you for this.
Lovely clear explanation and a deep understanding of motivation, thanks for your inspirational videos
From the get go I have a mental block about the idea that "practicing doesn't have to be boring, also. I fear I'll spend to much time focused on "making it interesting" that I won't be focused on the thing I want to master.....oh yea....great video, keep it up, you are inspiring.
I have watched several of your videos, They are very helpful and inspiring. Thanks for them.😀
Very good motivating!
Good ideas!
Thanks Nahre, as always great insights. Sometimes it's so hard to stay focused while practicing, this may help a lot ;) 🍎
YESS!!! Thank you for watching til the end 😍
i just want to say as someone with severe unmedicated (fixing that soon!!) adhd, ive never heard of this style of practicing until now and im on a journey to play the piano again after not touching it in over a decade, my first 2 months have been very fun, but i felt like the practice routines i came across were just severely understimulating for me, this just changed my whole perspective on it and now practicing is just as engaging and dynamic as i want it to be, thank you!
I honestly needed this video. I'm a Violinist, and in orchestra we're playing this piece called Bachanale. Oh my god it is so frustrating to play. It's repetitive and the fingerings are weird to me and I just hate it! I get frustrated everytime I practice specific hard sections. The only good thing about it is that because it's so repetitive the moment I master those tricky parts, I'll have the entire song down! I'll definitely take your advice. Repackaging and adding creative melodies and stuff anything so I don't just blow it off the rest of the day.
I know you mentioned you don't have to be a composer, but as a person that writes their own music, I often do this type of thing, and it inspires me to take it into new directions and write new music. So you are absolutely right about it being engaging and facilitating creativity!
Thanks Nahre! Tips like these help me improve my skills. I appreciate you! 😄
This is exactly what I needed to see today. Thank you for the inspiring idea!🍎
Thank you!!! 😍😍😍
It’s a really great method, and you demonstrate it so well. I’m going to shamelessly use this with my piano students, which by now are very familiar with several of your videos. Thanks for your efforts! 🍅
Thank you!!! 🙏🏻🍎
This is exactly how I honed my improvisation back when I joined jazz band not having a clue what it was.
I’ve learned a lot of practice methods, but yours are all new to me. Can’t wait to try some of these out in the practice room!
I understand the part about checking out if something isn't interesting.
As always, your video just got me to grab my Reface CP (another inspiration from your vids). Great advice!🍎
You're one of the reason i get way more fun creating exercise than learning tunes x)
I'm so glad you made it into a video :)
(which is actually alright because composing takes almost the entirety of my mental space these days)
Also i just made a thread about practicing without a personal teacher on my twitter (@mf_composer), if you'd like to check in and maybe add to the discussion it'll be super cool
Thank you for the advice. I will apply to my studies.
Thank you Nahre for your tips. Love your video pieces and have pointed you to a friend pianist who feels 'stuck' in classical music and would like to 'unlolock' possibilities with his playing. Thank you for your efforts!
Ur musicianship and skin shining day by day nahre
Love from India 🙏🏻keep going