Really great video! Please more videos that cover what‘s in your head, what are you thinking while exercising and performing. Because on video you can have an idea about your attack and your way of playing (free hands!), but there is absolutely no way to look in your head. Many thanks from Germany!
2:53 😂😂😂 so funny! You see lots of tutorials on piano and all of a sudden people in the comments become piano performance majors and think they know everything
Dear Josh, Thank you so much for your incredibly helpful suggestions and this valuable video. Wishing you many healthy and music-filled years with your loved ones. ilker🖖
Please, fellow musicians, memorize this right away; I offer it in both languages: "Eine falsche Note zu spielen ist unwichtig. Ohne Leidenschaft zu spielen ist unverzeihlich!" "To play a wrong note is unimportant. To play without passion is unpardonable!" -Ludwig van Beethoven
Lovely overview. I enjoy watching Josh even if I learn little I did not know. Music is a human activity and Josh is a wonderful human. I did not know about the Steinway preparation; I will watch those.
Hi Dr Wright, I hope you and your dear family had a wonderful Christmas! Here is an odd problem I have been dealing with: I cannot practice as I had for many years. My hands and coordination are fine, my memory is still sharp, and having recently retired I have plenty of time. My problem: dry eye syndrome! I cannot look long at the notes, they become a blur. I don't know if others experience this. There are many good eye drops and "Artificial Tears" available; these help greatly, but they tell me there is no cure. As far as learning music is concerned, now I will be limited. I wonder if anyone else is going through this, and what they are doing to get beyond the limitations it causes. Thank you again for your help over the years. I wish you, Dr. Lindsey, Lola and James (my first name too!) a blessed, safe, healthy and joyous new year!
How long can you practice before you need to take a break? I have problems with back pain and have to take frequent breaks (after about 20 mins) but I think this is an advantage rather than a drawback. Having to take frequent breaks means you need to stay really focused during the practice sessions and there is research showing that it also helps you retain things better.
@@qazsedcft2162Sometimes no more than 15 minutes, and I cannot always return to it later, since the blurriness persists.. Driving is also out of the question.
Helpful video. My new Yamaha b3 needs regulation. What questions should I ask the piano tuner company to get a good regulation? The tone is very uneven at the moment. In January they will install a Damp Chaser system and then do a tuning 3 weeks later. So I'd like to ask about regulation when they install the Damp Chaser. Thanks.
I've tried measuring regressions between practicing sessions for a while and noticed that, at least in the beginning, I lose half progress per day. So, in a more extreme case, if I practice the same piece for 2 hours, the next day it will take me around an hour of practice to catch up to where I was the day before. I also find that a piece is close to performance ready when I can wake up the next day and play the piece without a lot of warmup. The type of practice I typically do is slow practice. So, for instance, if I start a piece at a half tempo of 60 bpm, and get to 96 bpm in 2 hours. The next day, I'll start again at 60 bpm but work my way up to 96 within an hour and start making progress during the second hour. I don't usually play one piece 2 hours a day but I've noticed it's similar with one-hour-a-day practice; I'll spend 30 minutes the next day catching back up to the day before.
I'm gonna need a thorough explanation of the practice journal! Assume I can read/write english, and know the note names on the piano, but anything else "obvious" I'll probably need an explanation why it's a good idea to write it and what u do w/ it later
Hi Josh! I’m working on Bach’s prelude and fugue in C minor, and Chopin’s Aeolian Harp etude. My hands are very uneven. They don’t play at the same time. My right hand gets ahead, my left hand gets behind, etc. How can I solve this? I have been practicing with rhythms, staccato, legato, playing loud, quiet, slowing it down, etc. but I feel like every day my hands reset. How can I solve this issue?
You need to practice this exercise for example try to slow down when you play Bach prelude or Chopin etude and when your hands feel relaxed make it faster and repeat and use metronome it helps too but if you can't play it with the normal speed you may choose another piece easier but same technique like what you said play hands together I hope it helps you
Sometimes Chopin etude are look simple but it's hard because you keep going doing it all the music for example I tried etude the bees and aelion harp but I gave up because practice Chopin etude early is bad idea you should be relaxed when you practice it
The reason is because you are playing faster than your internal rhythm is ready to. You might have to set your metronome to the slowest tempo possible where you are able to play evenly with both hands. And then practice that for a week just to internalize the rhythm at that tempo. Then the following week increase the tempo by 3 or by 5 (depending on which is comfortable and even). And practice in that tempo for a week as well. Keep increasing it weekly. You will eventually internalize the rhythm evenly in both hands.
Ich bin sehr krank lieber Josh 💐. Es wird sich bis Ende Januar zeigen, ob ich noch leben kann. Vielen Dank für deine wunderbaren Videos. Deine Gestaltung ist einzigartig und ich habe es schon immer bewundert. Ich höre dir gerne zu. Bitte übersetze dir diesen Text. Liebste Grüsse an dich und deine Familie, Ursel
Really great video! Please more videos that cover what‘s in your head, what are you thinking while exercising and performing. Because on video you can have an idea about your attack and your way of playing (free hands!), but there is absolutely no way to look in your head. Many thanks from Germany!
Thanks Josh!
Have a happy new year!
2:53 😂😂😂 so funny! You see lots of tutorials on piano and all of a sudden people in the comments become piano performance majors and think they know everything
Dear Josh,
Thank you so much for your incredibly helpful suggestions and this valuable video. Wishing you many healthy and music-filled years with your loved ones.
ilker🖖
Please, fellow musicians, memorize this right away; I offer it in both languages:
"Eine falsche Note zu spielen ist unwichtig. Ohne Leidenschaft zu spielen ist unverzeihlich!"
"To play a wrong note is unimportant. To play without passion is unpardonable!"
-Ludwig van Beethoven
thank you Josh :)
Lovely overview. I enjoy watching Josh even if I learn little I did not know. Music is a human activity and Josh is a wonderful human. I did not know about the Steinway preparation; I will watch those.
Great advices as usual.
Such is what I need to know. Thank you! Subscribing now.
Happy new year sir
🎹✨👍
Excellent video as usual. And nice suit as well. You look great
thanks !
Hi Dr Wright, I hope you and your dear family had a wonderful Christmas!
Here is an odd problem I have been dealing with: I cannot practice as I had for many years. My hands and coordination are fine, my memory is still sharp, and having recently retired I have plenty of time.
My problem: dry eye syndrome! I cannot look long at the notes, they become a blur. I don't know if others experience this. There are many good eye drops and "Artificial Tears" available; these help greatly, but they tell me there is no cure.
As far as learning music is concerned, now I will be limited. I wonder if anyone else is going through this, and what they are doing to get beyond the limitations it causes.
Thank you again for your help over the years. I wish you, Dr. Lindsey, Lola and James (my first name too!) a blessed, safe, healthy and joyous new year!
How long can you practice before you need to take a break? I have problems with back pain and have to take frequent breaks (after about 20 mins) but I think this is an advantage rather than a drawback. Having to take frequent breaks means you need to stay really focused during the practice sessions and there is research showing that it also helps you retain things better.
@@qazsedcft2162Sometimes no more than 15 minutes, and I cannot always return to it later, since the blurriness persists.. Driving is also out of the question.
Helpful video. My new Yamaha b3 needs regulation. What questions should I ask the piano tuner company to get a good regulation? The tone is very uneven at the moment. In January they will install a Damp Chaser system and then do a tuning 3 weeks later. So I'd like to ask about regulation when they install the Damp Chaser. Thanks.
Very informative podcast with lots of practice ideas.
Beautiful video thanks for sharing @joshwright! Something I'll try to implement in my practice sessions
I've tried measuring regressions between practicing sessions for a while and noticed that, at least in the beginning, I lose half progress per day. So, in a more extreme case, if I practice the same piece for 2 hours, the next day it will take me around an hour of practice to catch up to where I was the day before. I also find that a piece is close to performance ready when I can wake up the next day and play the piece without a lot of warmup.
The type of practice I typically do is slow practice. So, for instance, if I start a piece at a half tempo of 60 bpm, and get to 96 bpm in 2 hours. The next day, I'll start again at 60 bpm but work my way up to 96 within an hour and start making progress during the second hour.
I don't usually play one piece 2 hours a day but I've noticed it's similar with one-hour-a-day practice; I'll spend 30 minutes the next day catching back up to the day before.
I'm gonna need a thorough explanation of the practice journal! Assume I can read/write english, and know the note names on the piano, but anything else "obvious" I'll probably need an explanation why it's a good idea to write it and what u do w/ it later
Hi Josh! I’m working on Bach’s prelude and fugue in C minor, and Chopin’s Aeolian Harp etude. My hands are very uneven. They don’t play at the same time. My right hand gets ahead, my left hand gets behind, etc. How can I solve this? I have been practicing with rhythms, staccato, legato, playing loud, quiet, slowing it down, etc. but I feel like every day my hands reset. How can I solve this issue?
You need to practice this exercise for example try to slow down when you play Bach prelude or Chopin etude and when your hands feel relaxed make it faster and repeat and use metronome it helps too but if you can't play it with the normal speed you may choose another piece easier but same technique like what you said play hands together I hope it helps you
Sometimes Chopin etude are look simple but it's hard because you keep going doing it all the music for example I tried etude the bees and aelion harp but I gave up because practice Chopin etude early is bad idea you should be relaxed when you practice it
@@yahyakhazbak4713 Thank you, I’ll try relaxing/loosening my hands and practicing slowly.
@@yahyakhazbak4713 I do notice that my hands tense up a lot, that’s probably a reason my hands are so uneven.
The reason is because you are playing faster than your internal rhythm is ready to. You might have to set your metronome to the slowest tempo possible where you are able to play evenly with both hands. And then practice that for a week just to internalize the rhythm at that tempo. Then the following week increase the tempo by 3 or by 5 (depending on which is comfortable and even). And practice in that tempo for a week as well. Keep increasing it weekly. You will eventually internalize the rhythm evenly in both hands.
I think you mean regressing but gewat video 😂
Ich bin sehr krank lieber Josh 💐. Es wird sich bis Ende Januar zeigen, ob ich noch leben kann.
Vielen Dank für deine wunderbaren Videos. Deine Gestaltung ist einzigartig und ich habe es schon immer bewundert. Ich höre dir gerne zu.
Bitte übersetze dir diesen Text.
Liebste Grüsse an dich und deine Familie,
Ursel
Best wishes for your health!
@tamjg Thank you so much 🙏
I think you mean "regressing."
First!!
I can't continue the video to end I'm really impatient
Just at a time that I haven't practiced for a week