7 Powerful Tips to IMPROVE Your Piano Practice! 🎹
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- In this video I share seven tips for making your piano practice time more effective. These are things that I do in my own piano practice, and I encourage my students to implement these strategies as well. Also: this advice can apply to students of all musical instruments. Enjoy! 👋
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Time stamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:31 Be Intentional
2:23 Make a Plan
3:34 Schedule Practice Time
5:19 Practice Daily
6:24 Don't Cram
8:16 Learn to Focus
11:33 Appreciate Yourself
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Dear Dr. Boyd, I am an adult student. I’ve been playing for 3+ years and I just came across your videos. Thank you so much for posting. These have become very helpful, especially the ones referring to how to practice and how to avoid mistakes when practicing. I look forward to more of your posts.
Thanks! I'm so glad you the videos helpful! I really appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. Good luck with your continued progress!
"Nobody will protect your practice time, you have to do that for yourself." So true!
I play a different instrument but this is great advice for all musicians. Thank you!
When I got my hybrid piano a year ago, I had a hard time getting used to having to hit a start button and wait for the instrument to "wake up" before playing. Now I use that 60 seconds to sit and center. I've been surprised at the shift that one little habit has made in the quality of my practice sessions! ;-)
Thanks for sharing! Great insight!
Great advice as always! Thank you!
I read “The Musician’s Way” last year. Excellent book! I highly recommend it. Thanks for this video!😊
I love that book - glad you liked it too!
Excellent tips. I wish I had a way to have this pop up on my screen every couple weeks as a refresher! Thanks so much!
Thanks! Good luck!
Thank you for your advice.
Now I am reading musician'sway in japanese.
That's great!
Firstly, thanks so much for these videos - they are so insightful and helpful. Secondly, and sorry if I missed it, but could you explain a little by how you keep your practice journal (e.g. what do you note down)?
Strike that (the part about the journal), I found your video on this! Thanks again :)
Glad you found it! I'm also thinking of making another one sometime soon. Stay tuned....
FLOW! I had to read a book about FLOW in university in Piano. I did not get much other than what I was assigned to do was not putting me in FLOW, but rather frustraition!!
Maybe I will reading The Posative Pianist.
I like The Positive Pianist because it adapts the principles of FLOW to piano playing, and it's quite applicable and readable. Hope you like it!
@@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Thank you! I look forward to getting meca copy.
Your videos are so great. Thank you so much. I think your point on the mindfulness is so important but at the same time I also wonder if it's not also the goal, at some stage of the piece, to let it inspire us and see which thoughts it triggers... So maybe we want to have our thoughts wander but not too much... ;)
As a pianist, may I suggest 2 things that I would love for you to cover, one technical and one more musical, thanks for your consideration:
1) I struggle so much when there are sequences of playing two notes with the same hand without them sounding like they're not together. It really frustrates me in the Consolation n°3 by Liszt where there's plenty of those in the right hand!
2) I think a lot about "bringing emotions" to the piece and I did watch your part on how to play expressively. It seems like there is a set of conventions (like in 4:4 we want to have 1 beat louder than 3rd louder than 2 and 4, we also want the parts where there's a modulation or a key change to stand out). But at the same time it looks like the expectation is also to project ourselves in the piece and see what it makes us feel. I think these two visions can sometimes conflict. And sometimes piano teachers expect us to invest ourselves in the piece yet they don't really like our version because "this note sounds louder but it shouldn't if you really think about it". I would love to have your thoughts on that.
Anyway, thank you so much for your videos, they are very inspiring!
Wow, these are really great questions! Thanks so much for raising these. I think a lot of people struggle with exactly what you mention here.
I suppose my "short" answer to number 2 would be to say that there are stylistic conventions you want to observe if you're playing in a certain style period (e.g., the difference between playing Bach (Baroque), Mozart (Classical) and Liszt (Romantic)). There is a certain way of playing that makes these works recognizably BY those composers - e.g., you wouldn't use a lot of long pedals in Bach but it would sound strange to play Liszt with very little pedal. And so if somebody hears you play it, they would be able to say "Oh yeah, that sounds like Bach (or whoever)."
And this also applies to questions of how you approach things on the page - attention to articulation, dynamics, note lengths, etc: all things that the composers wrote in the score. But depending on the style period and composer, the markings in the music mean slightly different things.
It's sort of like learning a language - you can learn the words, but you also want to learn the accent and how to pronounce things correctly in that language. The same vowel can have a slightly different sound in a different language, and it's important to understand and be able to replicate the difference.
So, in answer to your question about interpretation and FEELING the music, it is all in the context of the historical style, the composition, and what the composer wrote on the page. In that way, we are more like actors than, say, painters, because we have to take the script we are given (the score), look at it carefully, and then interpret it by allowing the music to stir emotions in us while also following the intentions of the composer.
I hope this is helpful - it's sort of a complicated idea for just a YT comment 😂 but those are my initial thoughts....
@@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Thanks so much for your reply. This is gold!! I like your version, it makes the part of "putting emotions in a piece" more rational, and I quite like it. I am not so sure I always understand what is expected of me when I hear "oh for this part you should feel sadness and I should be able to hear that". But your thoughts on the historical context and how they shed light on the interpretation of the piece make a lot of sense and maybe this is a first step to making progress! I like the analogy with language, and I think probably the point is that at some point to understand writers, we need to understand the culture, the historical time, like we did in highschool when we analysed texts... Same in music. It's so interesting and I would love to do a music undergrad just to do this more!
Really love your videos, thank you so much for this work. I look forward to the next ones ;)
What happens to me is that when I’m practicing I start mixing different parts of the peaces I need to master so I don’t focus on one but just jumping around those
You might find this helpful, where I go over how to practice more systematically. I apply it to a new piece but you can use these principles for a piece that you have already been working on for a while: ruclips.net/video/3pdFYAGJk1o/видео.html
Have any developmental neuropsychologists or other shown that 2- and 3-year-old prodigies follow all 7 of these rules when they touch the keyboard for the very first time?