What you mention is very true. I had lessons from ages 8 to 11 when I quit in desperation saying I had no talent. Went back to piano in February this year, I am 62 now. Could not remember a thing but I learnt more in these few months than what I did as a child! As well as the fact that now I really want to learn and I am putting my soul and mind to it. To me piano has been the best medicine and a great psychologist. I have never been so happy and calm. Mind you, I still have to work on my concentration as my mind tends to wander while I am practicing and of course get “lost” when reading the sheet music. Had that problem then and still have it now. Once again I thank you for a lesson that inspires to keep on learning. Also, I am so looking forward to your next workshop. I am so very happy it will be on how to use the metronome effectively! 🎼🎵🎶🎹
I've always wanted to learn piano, and finally started in Feb of 2020. I'm now 65 and really love it. My problem has been thinking I should be farther along than I am. Luckily, I have a great young teacher who is very reassuring.
your conversation about myths is very reassuring for me. at some point in my life i was told nearly all these things why i had no talent and it was the most destructive and hurtful. i only wish i had been told these things long ago. i am now 75 and still struggle, so maybe now i can get on with my desire to make music. I can only say thank you very much
Good video. My experience with #3 was that I learned how to play some pop songs in a very beginner-y way as soon as I knew how to build basic chords, but they didn't sound satisfying at all. It takes a certain level of playing chords/chord inversions and coordination to play more appealing pop arrangements.
I agree. This accords with what Eileen D Robillard said in her wonderful book The Persistent Pianist. I think it's put of print, but libraries sometimes have a copy. Myself, I was an adult restarter. Now I do occasional jazz gigs and teach a little, these things as secondary srtrings to my jazz trumpet playing. Ideally, piano will become my first instrument.
Hi Leah, Exceptionally good advice and well received by these ears. By way of comparison, for those that have become pilots, the practice becomes learning what to focus on and what to ignore and when. This experience resonates with your advice regarding attention divided between the hands and the music when playing the piano. Just like flying, it is all so overwhelming to begin with. With time one learns what is important and when. All the best.
Admittedly I started learning to play the piano as a child. And for everyone who believes it is better, I am not saying it is harder, just saying that here are a few things that I struggled with back then. for everyone who regretts not having started as a child, here is my experience that you could potentially take something away from but I am not saying that it is the same experience for every child starter: - the concept of playing with more feeling. what the heck does that even mean, I asked myself? I thought I was already pushing this key harder and getting louder over there just like the adults wanted me to. what do they mean when they say to feel the music? I confused me and I had no idea. I always got told I have no talent and play like a robot which made me sad because I genuinely didn't know what the adults wanted from me. -the concept of internally feeling or knowing when I start playing faster and not having a feeling for rhythm yet. time felt totally different for me back then. I heavily relied on someone or a metronome telling me that I was changing the pace. - having to do something I don't have an intrinsic motivation for. I go to classes I don't want to go to. I played music that was pushed on me. Nobody told me why it was advantageous or good for me to be able to play the piano. It was all pressure from outside. I saw other kids running outside and wanted to play, too, and had to study for an upcoming "stupid" students' concert. I still frown when I think about them now. I already had to concentrate during school hours with my ADHD and now I have to continue studying after school. i was at the end if my concentration capacity. - all of what the adults told me ("you are too stupid", "you can't count", "you have no talent", "you play as if you are typewriting", "you will never achieve this. it is too difficult for you " ) it all stuck with me until now. I didn't have any internal self confidence to counter it. I was a child that believed that everything the older adults with kore experience told me had to be true. it created a lot of stress and trauma. as an adult I woulf have been able to defend myself, differentiate, be more objective, understand, protect myself, selfsoothe... it wasn't possible then. - because I played the piano everybody at school hated me and it was difficult to find friends because I was the girl "who always studies to play the piano", "who is probabaly too arrogant to plax with us because she plays the piano", "she is different. she does something we can't, let's avoid her." it was lonely. more than anything I felt learning to play was taking something away from me. - often the teachers were angry with me because I didn't do something the way they wanted but they failed to explain it so that I understand. it made me fear them, it made me sad, I wanted to avoid going to classes, it made me resent them and there was no internet where I could just look it up. I was stuck anf also wasn't old enough to find out on my own using my own brains. I wasn't intelligent/old/experienced enough to create my own solutions and somehow come up with alternatives... And all of these things, I argue would have been more easily resolvable if I had been older and more experienced as a human being. not even as a piano player. we face different struggles but it is not necessarly easier as an adult or as a child. The people I knew back then have been very quick to judge a four year old. My brain wasn't developped and yet they were quick to judge. In German we have a saying that you shouldnt praise the morning before the evening, meaning it is too soon to say anything. And you might see the surprise of your life when you give a child enough patience. Someone really apparently bad can turn into one of the best. Anyway, as an adult people are playing with a developed brain and in contrast to what people might think, I believe it is an advantage. That said. I really have a lot of respect for people who decide to learn playing the piano as an adult. I think, if I had been aware of all these mental barriers in childhood, I wouldn't have continued studying. I would have given up much earlier.
Here’s an idea that popped into my head about not looking at your hands-touch typing! Way, way back in Jr. high I learned to touch type. The method my teachers used stressed not looking at your hands and fingers. The manual typewriters had NO letters printed on them. You had to read and follow the instruction manual. I became very proficient typist, up to 95 words per minute with 5 or less errors. I transferred this skill to piano and organ playing. I still rarely look at my hands or fingers while playing. Does it help? Well, for me it works. I can get lost in the music if I look at my hands. I would like some tips on how to keep music flowing while turning a page. Thanks for your myth-busting! Great video.
That's really interesting, Dr. Dave, I wonder if there's any correlation between touch typing and sight reading in general? I will have to investigate! On the issue of page turning, depending on the length of the piece, it might help to just photocopy part of the music so it's all laid out in front of you. Another trick, which probably only works if there's a single page turn, is to dog ear the corner of that page so that it's easy to grab and turn quickly. Good luck! 😊
I can relate to that. I also studied typing and it does help me when I play, but so far only if the notes are in the middle of the keyboard or not far off. If I have to do big leaps to either end of the keyboard, then I tend to miss! About turning the pages, there is a program one can down load onto an I-pad so as to read the score as well as a gadget that works through blue tooth that turns the pages. I also found that there is a gadget that works for Android and PDF files. Both models have a small pedal that is used with the left foot but I guess that will be a bit difficult wihen playing the organ (which, by the way, I think it is a great instrument!) but not so with the piano. However, at the moment I follow Leah’s advice on making photocopies and sticking them together as I have to write notes and more notes, sometimes in color so as to be able to find myself once I look back up at the music sheet as I get hopelessly lost. Needless to say, with Leah’s tutorials and workshops I am really improving loads.
I agree that the iPad is the best thing to use (or some type of electronic notepad) for playing your music. I purchased one sometime ago, but just in the last six months, I bought a program called forScore (there are others out there) and I am gradually putting all of my music on it. It can be a little challenging figuring out how to use a few different things but it’s okay because I am making progress and I love it. With just a quick touch of the screen, the page flips-you can do it between beats. it’s so easy. I will say though that I bought the foot pedal-page Turner, and it didn’t work that well for me, but I imagine there are others out there or maybe I’m just using it wrong. Anyway, hope i put this helps someone and good luck with your piano lessons. I started when I was nine, left for a few years, and came back to it (just for fun) -and it’s still the best thing I ever did! Take care.
Hi! I am a 65 year old beginner and play since about 2 years. I took at the beginning some lessons and regarding to myth no. 1: My teacher told me to look at hands. Otherwise when you play not looking at hands and learned a piece without looking at hands sometimes when needed and helpful you will make mistakes when looking at hands later. I practised some ot the Hanon excersises. Learned them blind. Played it quite well but when I started then looking to my fingers when played it was nearly impossible to play without mistakes. So my teacher was absolutely right. Look at hands. There must be a relationship between eyes and hands. Hope I explained understandable. Very best regards from Germany!
You're first point was very interesting. When playings hymns I find hard sometimes to jump playing a G on one hand and a chord with the right without looking. I keep making the same mistake if I don't look. But I also need to be able to get back to the score and than watching the chorister.
Yes,it really is a carefully choreographed dance sometimes, isn't it? I sometimes find that my most valuable practice is spent working out the sequence of eye movements at a particular point in the music.
Playing piano can be very therapeutic, too. The great thing about piano is that you can play chords and achieve some really rich harmonies. It can also be quite therapeutic.
When Elisey Mysin performed Mozart's piano concerto No. 3 aged 8, his hands weren't big enough to play notes an octave apart he improvised and played the octave in an arpeggio fashion. Two separate notes played to cover the octave.
#1 - I have much difficulty, after 20 years, at looking (sight-reading) as I play. Most people, though, marvel that I can play my repertoire sans music, to the note. I would like to work on sight reading. It seems to help with having confidence on a wider repertoire, due to being able to refresh yourself as the tune is played.... I am working on it.......
I used to be the same way. But I got long Covid and my memory got so bad I’m forced to sightread, so I’ve improved a lot. I think you must naturally have a good memory so you don’t need to sightread.
#7. So the older you are the faster you learn. I must still be too you to learn quickly (73)😊. #5 I have 2 copies of scores, the one I work with and the one I use for exams. AMEB insists that the score have no marks on the score. #2 often during my practice I say “Look out Liberace I coming for you”. I feel one’s achievable is limited only by one’s belief a how far they can go. Stop doing that. Stretch .
Not very kind of AMEB! I couldn’t find anything to that effect in their exam regulations; if you have a link, I’d be grateful for it. Love your Liberace affirmation - keep stretching! 🥰
@LeCheileMusic that's correct. I did, and now put students through AMEB exams. Not awkward any pencil marks on their scores... it's confusing. Us "real world" musicians have scribbles everywhere ???!!
It doesn't, adults can learn but when you're talking about the 0.1% there's more than just learning ability, they've done over 10k hours before they turn 20, an adult just doesn't have that sort of time to sink into something as time consuming as piano, it's like anything I guess, children grow with the piano and internalise things that can take some adults a long long time to do.
I think childhood neuroplasticity as an advantage is balanced against adult ability to understand concepts more easily. I’m assuming, of course, that we’re not talking about concert pianists but rather the vast majority of learners at various ages.
I'd you're worried about your hand size or shape this may change your mind: when you're a beginner you don't play hard pieces that require big hands, and when you're an advanced player your hand size / shape won't matter
Hi D, this seems to happen on some devices. If you want, you can mute the sound and turn on the auto-generated captions to watch the remainder. Hope this helps.
@@deadmanswife3625 What does that mean? People are so nasty, or is it childish on the internet. The video would have been more effective with most of the music eliminated. Don't I have a right to say that?
Another one: it’s cheating to study a new piece before you first play it. I like to read up on it, when it was written, the composer’s life at the time, other people’s analysis of the piece, what they think are the hard parts,etc. I mark off sections, key changes, circle things, look up words I don’t know (sostentuto), etc. before I try a single note. And another: it’s cheating to listen to famous pianists playing the piece and note their interpretation before you start a piece. I read the music as I listen and make notes on it.
Yes! All of this - spot on. 😊👍 I would add that the idea that you shouldn't listen to recordings lest you be influenced by them is laughable - if someone tells me my playing sounds like (insert giant of the concert pianist world here), I'm going to take that as a win! 😂
Yulianna Avdeeva makes a point of looking at her hands while playing: ruclips.net/video/ux2Sqpg2Jn4/видео.html Is "You have to practice for at least 30 minutes every day if you want to get good" a myth? I suppose it depends on what "good" means.
The blaring background music makes it impossible to concentrate on what you are saying. I regret to say I had to go to innaccurate captions....and then I gave up.
💡best, most encouraging advice ever! Thank you Leah 🌟
Wonderful. You've removed misconceptions i had. It applies to all skills i think.
What you mention is very true. I had lessons from ages 8 to 11 when I quit in desperation saying I had no talent. Went back to piano in February this year, I am 62 now. Could not remember a thing but I learnt more in these few months than what I did as a child! As well as the fact that now I really want to learn and I am putting my soul and mind to it. To me piano has been the best medicine and a great psychologist. I have never been so happy and calm. Mind you, I still have to work on my concentration as my mind tends to wander while I am practicing and of course get “lost” when reading the sheet music. Had that problem then and still have it now. Once again I thank you for a lesson that inspires to keep on learning. Also, I am so looking forward to your next workshop. I am so very happy it will be on how to use the metronome effectively! 🎼🎵🎶🎹
This is a very helpful comment I can relate
Thanks Viviana!
You're terrific! Very positive outlook.
Been tickling the ivories for 80 years and I enjoy your videos for their common sense and freedom from affectation.
Leah, I have horrible attention span, but You managed to capture my full attention from start to finish! Always!😃🐝
Thank you for this very helpful video. So grateful!
I've always wanted to learn piano, and finally started in Feb of 2020. I'm now 65 and really love it. My problem has been thinking I should be farther along than I am. Luckily, I have a great young teacher who is very reassuring.
your conversation about myths is very reassuring for me. at some point in my life i was told nearly all these things why i had no talent and it was the most destructive and hurtful. i only wish i had been told these things long ago. i am now 75 and still struggle, so maybe now i can get on with my desire to make music. I can only say thank you very much
You're very welcome 😊
Wonderful, lots of great news in this video!
Good video. My experience with #3 was that I learned how to play some pop songs in a very beginner-y way as soon as I knew how to build basic chords, but they didn't sound satisfying at all. It takes a certain level of playing chords/chord inversions and coordination to play more appealing pop arrangements.
I 100 % agree with your suggestions.
Amazing teacher with terrific advice. Thanks so much
Excellent job at destroying those myths no one needs. 👍🏻
I agree. This accords with what Eileen D Robillard said in her wonderful book The Persistent Pianist. I think it's put of print, but libraries sometimes have a copy.
Myself, I was an adult restarter. Now I do occasional jazz gigs and teach a little, these things as secondary srtrings to my jazz trumpet playing. Ideally, piano will become my first instrument.
You are so right that one lifetime is not enough for piano !
Thanks for ridding us of those unproduced ideas.
You are awesome!!!!!!!!!
Stop, I’m blushing 😁
Really good common sense Leah, thank you.
Thank you Leah. Helpfull & very useful advice.
Thanks for a wonderful video, love your encouragement, your honest, common sense approach to piano is refreshing.
What marvelous inspiring advice.
Hi… what a great video once again…
Have a great day, greetings from Brussels.
Thanks, you too!
I love this! I feel more and more confident listening to your channel!☺️🎼🎹
Thanks thanks thanks ❤
I’m so glad no one has “talent”! I don’t feel so lonely now😊
Great encouragement to adult learners...👏
Thank you
Great video again ty ❤️
Thank you very much, you are such a lovely teacher. Looking forward to receiving the free practice workbook.
Love that you're addressing these myths. Especially love number 7, this is such a stubborn myth!
Thank you again for very helpful and informative video Leah! 🙏🏼😊
Hi Leah, Exceptionally good advice and well received by these ears. By way of comparison, for those that have become pilots, the practice becomes learning what to focus on and what to ignore and when. This experience resonates with your advice regarding attention divided between the hands and the music when playing the piano. Just like flying, it is all so overwhelming to begin with. With time one learns what is important and when. All the best.
Thanks for articulating this so well, Popeye, a really interesting analogy! 😊
Admittedly I started learning to play the piano as a child. And for everyone who believes it is better, I am not saying it is harder, just saying that here are a few things that I struggled with back then. for everyone who regretts not having started as a child, here is my experience that you could potentially take something away from but I am not saying that it is the same experience for every child starter:
- the concept of playing with more feeling. what the heck does that even mean, I asked myself? I thought I was already pushing this key harder and getting louder over there just like the adults wanted me to. what do they mean when they say to feel the music? I confused me and I had no idea. I always got told I have no talent and play like a robot which made me sad because I genuinely didn't know what the adults wanted from me.
-the concept of internally feeling or knowing when I start playing faster and not having a feeling for rhythm yet. time felt totally different for me back then. I heavily relied on someone or a metronome telling me that I was changing the pace.
- having to do something I don't have an intrinsic motivation for. I go to classes I don't want to go to. I played music that was pushed on me. Nobody told me why it was advantageous or good for me to be able to play the piano. It was all pressure from outside. I saw other kids running outside and wanted to play, too, and had to study for an upcoming "stupid" students' concert. I still frown when I think about them now. I already had to concentrate during school hours with my ADHD and now I have to continue studying after school. i was at the end if my concentration capacity.
- all of what the adults told me ("you are too stupid", "you can't count", "you have no talent", "you play as if you are typewriting", "you will never achieve this. it is too difficult for you " ) it all stuck with me until now. I didn't have any internal self confidence to counter it. I was a child that believed that everything the older adults with kore experience told me had to be true. it created a lot of stress and trauma. as an adult I woulf have been able to defend myself, differentiate, be more objective, understand, protect myself, selfsoothe... it wasn't possible then.
- because I played the piano everybody at school hated me and it was difficult to find friends because I was the girl "who always studies to play the piano", "who is probabaly too arrogant to plax with us because she plays the piano", "she is different. she does something we can't, let's avoid her." it was lonely. more than anything I felt learning to play was taking something away from me.
- often the teachers were angry with me because I didn't do something the way they wanted but they failed to explain it so that I understand. it made me fear them, it made me sad, I wanted to avoid going to classes, it made me resent them and there was no internet where I could just look it up. I was stuck anf also wasn't old enough to find out on my own using my own brains. I wasn't intelligent/old/experienced enough to create my own solutions and somehow come up with alternatives...
And all of these things, I argue would have been more easily resolvable if I had been older and more experienced as a human being. not even as a piano player. we face different struggles but it is not necessarly easier as an adult or as a child.
The people I knew back then have been very quick to judge a four year old. My brain wasn't developped and yet they were quick to judge. In German we have a saying that you shouldnt praise the morning before the evening, meaning it is too soon to say anything. And you might see the surprise of your life when you give a child enough patience. Someone really apparently bad can turn into one of the best. Anyway, as an adult people are playing with a developed brain and in contrast to what people might think, I believe it is an advantage.
That said. I really have a lot of respect for people who decide to learn playing the piano as an adult. I think, if I had been aware of all these mental barriers in childhood, I wouldn't have continued studying. I would have given up much earlier.
Here’s an idea that popped into my head about not looking at your hands-touch typing! Way, way back in Jr. high I learned to touch type. The method my teachers used stressed not looking at your hands and fingers. The manual typewriters had NO letters printed on them. You had to read and follow the instruction manual. I became very proficient typist, up to 95 words per minute with 5 or less errors. I transferred this skill to piano and organ playing. I still rarely look at my hands or fingers while playing. Does it help? Well, for me it works. I can get lost in the music if I look at my hands. I would like some tips on how to keep music flowing while turning a page. Thanks for your myth-busting! Great video.
That's really interesting, Dr. Dave, I wonder if there's any correlation between touch typing and sight reading in general? I will have to investigate! On the issue of page turning, depending on the length of the piece, it might help to just photocopy part of the music so it's all laid out in front of you. Another trick, which probably only works if there's a single page turn, is to dog ear the corner of that page so that it's easy to grab and turn quickly. Good luck! 😊
I can relate to that. I also studied typing and it does help me when I play, but so far only if the notes are in the middle of the keyboard or not far off. If I have to do big leaps to either end of the keyboard, then I tend to miss! About turning the pages, there is a program one can down load onto an I-pad so as to read the score as well as a gadget that works through blue tooth that turns the pages. I also found that there is a gadget that works for Android and PDF files. Both models have a small pedal that is used with the left foot but I guess that will be a bit difficult wihen playing the organ (which, by the way, I think it is a great instrument!) but not so with the piano. However, at the moment I follow Leah’s advice on making photocopies and sticking them together as I have to write notes and more notes, sometimes in color so as to be able to find myself once I look back up at the music sheet as I get hopelessly lost. Needless to say, with Leah’s tutorials and workshops I am really improving loads.
I agree that the iPad is the best thing to use (or some type of electronic notepad) for playing your music. I purchased one sometime ago, but just in the last six months, I bought a program called forScore (there are others out there) and I am gradually putting all of my music on it. It can be a little challenging figuring out how to use a few different things but it’s okay because I am making progress and I love it. With just a quick touch of the screen, the page flips-you can do it between beats. it’s so easy. I will say though that I bought the foot pedal-page Turner, and it didn’t work that well for me, but I imagine there are others out there or maybe I’m just using it wrong. Anyway, hope i put this helps someone and good luck with your piano lessons. I started when I was nine, left for a few years, and came back to it (just for fun) -and it’s still the best thing I ever did! Take care.
It’s helpful to really practice page turns, and to memorize a little of the music before and after the page turn.
Hi! I am a 65 year old beginner and play since about 2 years. I took at the beginning some lessons and regarding to myth no. 1: My teacher told me to look at hands. Otherwise when you play not looking at hands and learned a piece without looking at hands sometimes when needed and helpful you will make mistakes when looking at hands later. I practised some ot the Hanon excersises. Learned them blind. Played it quite well but when I started then looking to my fingers when played it was nearly impossible to play without mistakes. So my teacher was absolutely right. Look at hands. There must be a relationship between eyes and hands. Hope I explained understandable. Very best regards from Germany!
You're first point was very interesting. When playings hymns I find hard sometimes to jump playing a G on one hand and a chord with the right without looking. I keep making the same mistake if I don't look. But I also need to be able to get back to the score and than watching the chorister.
Yes,it really is a carefully choreographed dance sometimes, isn't it? I sometimes find that my most valuable practice is spent working out the sequence of eye movements at a particular point in the music.
I enjoy your presentations!!
Playing piano can be very therapeutic, too. The great thing about piano is that you can play chords and achieve some really rich harmonies. It can also be quite therapeutic.
I agree with everything you say
Hands like shovels 😂
Thanks for the motivation!
When Elisey Mysin performed Mozart's piano concerto No. 3 aged 8, his hands weren't big enough to play notes an octave apart he improvised and played the octave in an arpeggio fashion. Two separate notes played to cover the octave.
#1 - I have much difficulty, after 20 years, at looking (sight-reading) as I play. Most people, though, marvel that I can play my repertoire sans music, to the note. I would like to work on sight reading. It seems to help with having confidence on a wider repertoire, due to being able to refresh yourself as the tune is played.... I am working on it.......
I used to be the same way. But I got long Covid and my memory got so bad I’m forced to sightread, so I’ve improved a lot. I think you must naturally have a good memory so you don’t need to sightread.
#7. So the older you are the faster you learn. I must still be too you to learn quickly (73)😊. #5 I have 2 copies of scores, the one I work with and the one I use for exams. AMEB insists that the score have no marks on the score. #2 often during my practice I say “Look out Liberace I coming for you”. I feel one’s achievable is limited only by one’s belief a how far they can go. Stop doing that. Stretch .
Not very kind of AMEB! I couldn’t find anything to that effect in their exam regulations; if you have a link, I’d be grateful for it. Love your Liberace affirmation - keep stretching! 🥰
@LeCheileMusic that's correct. I did, and now put students through AMEB exams. Not awkward any pencil marks on their scores... it's confusing. Us "real world" musicians have scribbles everywhere ???!!
#7: how does this fit with results in neuropsychology that show functional neuroplasticity is much greater in the child brain than the adult?
It doesn't, adults can learn but when you're talking about the 0.1% there's more than just learning ability, they've done over 10k hours before they turn 20, an adult just doesn't have that sort of time to sink into something as time consuming as piano, it's like anything I guess, children grow with the piano and internalise things that can take some adults a long long time to do.
I think childhood neuroplasticity as an advantage is balanced against adult ability to understand concepts more easily. I’m assuming, of course, that we’re not talking about concert pianists but rather the vast majority of learners at various ages.
It takes children (elementary) much longer to build up dexterity (fine motor skills) and cognitive reasoning that adults have already developed.
The saddest part about playing the piano is realising that you will never be able to learn everything you want to, you have to start prioritizing :(
As Rachmaninov said, “Piano is enough for one lifetime, but one lifetime is not enough for piano.” 😭😭😭
Same as language learning. Age isn't nearly the issue people think it is, claims to fluency in 2 weeks are bogus, and talent is overrated.
nice
I love your name !
Excellent 👌
Lighter Load! Yup. I can deal with that!
I listen to the piece before I attempt to play it
I'd you're worried about your hand size or shape this may change your mind: when you're a beginner you don't play hard pieces that require big hands, and when you're an advanced player your hand size / shape won't matter
Excellent commentary in the part I heard, but the background music was so loud I didn’t watch all the way through.
Hi D, this seems to happen on some devices. If you want, you can mute the sound and turn on the auto-generated captions to watch the remainder. Hope this helps.
@@LeCheileMusic well it is not happening on my device the music is very much in the background and your voice is clear and easy to understand
Agreed. Why not just remove the irritating background playing?
@@labienus9968 I'm waiting to hear your video
@@deadmanswife3625 What does that mean? People are so nasty, or is it childish on the internet. The video would have been more effective with most of the music eliminated. Don't I have a right to say that?
Another one: it’s cheating to study a new piece before you first play it. I like to read up on it, when it was written, the composer’s life at the time, other people’s analysis of the piece, what they think are the hard parts,etc. I mark off sections, key changes, circle things, look up words I don’t know (sostentuto), etc. before I try a single note. And another: it’s cheating to listen to famous pianists playing the piece and note their interpretation before you start a piece. I read the music as I listen and make notes on it.
Yes! All of this - spot on. 😊👍 I would add that the idea that you shouldn't listen to recordings lest you be influenced by them is laughable - if someone tells me my playing sounds like (insert giant of the concert pianist world here), I'm going to take that as a win! 😂
Yulianna Avdeeva makes a point of looking at her hands while playing: ruclips.net/video/ux2Sqpg2Jn4/видео.html
Is "You have to practice for at least 30 minutes every day if you want to get good" a myth? I suppose it depends on what "good" means.
Sadly that one is true. 😂
The better you want to be, the more you practice-in anything!! 👍
Good video except for the very distracting background music
That does seem to be an issue unfortunately 😞
I could barely hear it myself, and the voice was perfectly clear.
Case closed!
Interesting. but what about the idea that kids' brains are more plastic, enabling them to learn faster?
They do have that advantage, but in most cases, the adult ability to understand concepts faster balances it out.
The blaring background music makes it impossible to concentrate on what you are saying. I regret to say I had to go to innaccurate captions....and then I gave up.
I did get a lot from the sight reading video.
Thanks Edith, yes, apologies, something went wrong with the background music 😢