Thanks! I bought your Advanced Beginner course yesterday, and I’m very glad I did. I already know how to play Burgmuller’s Opus 100, No. 1, so I watched your lessons on it, and I realized how much easier it would have been if I had been able to do the lessons before learning the piece. Piano is my third instrument after violin (years ago) and voice (all my life), so the world of chords and coordinating hands are the most challenging parts for me, and in this video the idea of improvisation was really appealing. I’m really excited for the rest of your course.
Big thanks for these techniques, I realized I overlook many aspects of piano playing, so I will try to bring something new like sightreading into daily routine
Im at work so ill throw this in my watch later. I subscribed from your previous videos. Thank you very much for your thoughtful and concise practice guides.
Hi Denis! Your videos are beneficial and full of great tips and explanations. I purchased your Hanon technique exercises last year and referred to them often. I was thrilled to hear you made a course for Late-Beginners. I just bought it! These videos and courses are so invaluable. I appreciate your hard work and dedication to making it accessible to us. Thank you!
I dont know if it's valid or not but I also just try to have fun. Yes mechanical repetition is neccesary sometimes but I allow myself to just start messing around with basic ideas. Or take repetitions and start adding things on top of it. Take segments of pieces and try to change them, transform or transpose, play them with arpeggios instead of chords or vicersa, invert the melody, etc.
Great recommendations. My son, eight yo, on grade 4 ABRMS, follows a very similar pattern, with 50% of his practise time on the actual pieces he's learning. He learns two pieces grade 3 or 1 piece grade 4 in two weeks. Separate hands first week. He practises 1h per day. Same preps for his first recital. Works perfectly well for him. Thanks for sharing.
Many beginners ask about practice routines and I think it's totally the wrong question to ask. It reminds me of people who go to the gym and just want to phase out and their exercise routine without having to think about it. But that's exactly what you MUST avoid when practicing piano. You should constantly examine, search for solutions, re-evaluate, experiment, and change things around on a regular basis. The key question you should be asking is not what is the best practice routine but what are good practice techniques for solving such and such issues (and Dennis has a lot of great advice in this area). You have to be constantly on the edge trying to find new solutions rather than complacently following a "routine".
Great video. I just bought your new course, thank you! I have not been practising at all (and no teacher) so I hope this gets me going again with good (and fun) habits.
Thanks for this! I like the emphasis on warmup, and appreciate you listing all the other areas of daily practice, including one or two I used to separate out (which meant they too often were skipped). In contrast I have trouble getting all those other areas into only 50% of my practice time! But I’m a re-starter not a new beginner so I know from long-ago experience how important this is. Your summary of it was helpful. I looked at the ear training course and it has the homework assignments and sound files so you can test yourself, check your dictation, etc. but i don’t see actual course content. Am I overlooking it?
Thanks for a feedback and sharing your thoughts! Another style is doing some activities 1-2 times per week but longer. That’s the course content as far as I understand, you just listen to files, write down or play it, and check yourself with a book.
Have you heard about task fatigue. If your practice more than 30 minutes the practice quality goes down. So you should practice 30 minutes then take 10 min break than practice 30 mins again
Hi Denis thank you so much for every video I try not to miss even a single video of you!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏 In one of your videos would you mind telling us how was your hand recovery what kind of treatment did you get to recovery what kind of physiotherapy you had for your hand after you got injury? I have carpal tunnel and I am applying all kinds of modern techniques nice gantle warm up routine. Noting seems to work...I am going to get an other treatment on September but this time physiotherapy will be included. If you don't mind telling us the process of your hand recovery I would be grateful. But if you would mind I understand you deeply. Thank you very much for every knowledge you give us and for all your wonderful videos🙏🙏🙏💐🌺💐🌺💞
Sorry to hear about your situation! But I did have only muscle issues, so my experience would not be very helpful for you! I hope you’ll find a great doctor who will help you!🤞
@@DenZhdanovPianist Thank you very much for your good wishes dear Denis🙏💐🌺 But carpal tunnel is e muscle issue you know. If something worked for you that would inspire me too. Recovery has a spiritual or belief part you know. But thank you very much anyway🙏💐🌺 I will do my best👍🏻
Oh really, as far as I am informed, a carpal syndrome is a neurological disorder involving the median nerve. Unfortunately, each issue needs a specific treatment, but I’ll think about making a video sharing my experience, of course!
@@DenZhdanovPianist Thank you so so much dear Denis🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐🌟🌟🌟You are my kind of idol a kind of hero🌺💐🍀🌺I would find enough courage to heal if watch how you recovered thank you so much🙏🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰💐🍀💞 By the way if I am wrong carpal tunnel is a muscle sequizing the median nerve if that muscle get too thight. That tunnels get nerow and press onto the median nerve. I hope treatment works this time. Thank you so much dear Denis 🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰💐🍀 I wish all the best for you always!!!🌺🌟💞🍀🤗🌟🌺
@@DenZhdanovPianist As a second thought, such a video would harm harm to your positive energy dear Denis I would not like this at all. And besides it may not work for me either..yes my solutions would be different..one of my fingers is broken..I will concentrate on using it more gently. This might solve the half of the problem. Please don't worry about making a video about this🙏🙏🙏🙏I will find a good doctor and I will be ok. I wish all the best for you dear Denis🙏🙏🤗💐💞🍀🌟🌺You are such a great pianist!!💐💐💐💐💞💞💞All your videos changed my piano technique Iitimproved very much already. Thank you for everything🙏🙏💐🌺🌟💞💐🌺🌟🍀💐💞🌺
Mister Denis i want you to ask you something. Since you started playing the piano have you ever made your wrists getting any pain? Is this normal for a pianist to develop pain in wrists? I m encounter this problem and i don't really know if should stop playing the piano. I know well that its some kind of bad technic but i really want to ask a good pianist if this was a problem as well during your young period of learning the piano.
No, pains are not normal and usually point on a not healthy playing habits. I have many videos on this topic on this channel, you may start here: ruclips.net/video/QD9QcmlygKo/видео.htmlsi=hreEmAt2BX2H_xkW
I absolutely disagree with you. Beginners want to do well but they don’t have the first idea as how much time would be the minimum amount of time to spend practicing so that they will see improvement. I hope you are not a teacher.
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Thanks! I bought your Advanced Beginner course yesterday, and I’m very glad I did. I already know how to play Burgmuller’s Opus 100, No. 1, so I watched your lessons on it, and I realized how much easier it would have been if I had been able to do the lessons before learning the piece. Piano is my third instrument after violin (years ago) and voice (all my life), so the world of chords and coordinating hands are the most challenging parts for me, and in this video the idea of improvisation was really appealing. I’m really excited for the rest of your course.
Thanks for your feedback! Have fun with the course!
great as always!
Big thanks for these techniques, I realized I overlook many aspects of piano playing, so I will try to bring something new like sightreading into daily routine
Im at work so ill throw this in my watch later. I subscribed from your previous videos. Thank you very much for your thoughtful and concise practice guides.
Hi Denis! Your videos are beneficial and full of great tips and explanations. I purchased your Hanon technique exercises last year and referred to them often. I was thrilled to hear you made a course for Late-Beginners. I just bought it! These videos and courses are so invaluable. I appreciate your hard work and dedication to making it accessible to us. Thank you!
Thank you very much for your feedback! Have a great time with piano playing!☺️
My practice routines are:
1) my own technique exercises
2) scales/arpeggi
3) J.S. Bach pieces
4) repertoire
Great videos! Great content, concise and to the point! Thank you for sharing your content!
My pleasure! Thanks for commenting!
I dont know if it's valid or not but I also just try to have fun. Yes mechanical repetition is neccesary sometimes but I allow myself to just start messing around with basic ideas. Or take repetitions and start adding things on top of it. Take segments of pieces and try to change them, transform or transpose, play them with arpeggios instead of chords or vicersa, invert the melody, etc.
👏 that’s a great approach!
Great recommendations. My son, eight yo, on grade 4 ABRMS, follows a very similar pattern, with 50% of his practise time on the actual pieces he's learning. He learns two pieces grade 3 or 1 piece grade 4 in two weeks. Separate hands first week. He practises 1h per day. Same preps for his first recital. Works perfectly well for him. Thanks for sharing.
Many beginners ask about practice routines and I think it's totally the wrong question to ask. It reminds me of people who go to the gym and just want to phase out and their exercise routine without having to think about it. But that's exactly what you MUST avoid when practicing piano. You should constantly examine, search for solutions, re-evaluate, experiment, and change things around on a regular basis. The key question you should be asking is not what is the best practice routine but what are good practice techniques for solving such and such issues (and Dennis has a lot of great advice in this area). You have to be constantly on the edge trying to find new solutions rather than complacently following a "routine".
Age is just a number, routine is just a word😅
'Repetition is the mother of tuition'
Thank you so much for you videos! They are incredibly helpful
Great video. I just bought your new course, thank you! I have not been practising at all (and no teacher) so I hope this gets me going again with good (and fun) habits.
Thank you and have fun!
I love very much your channel, because you are a great teacher. Everything is very clear. Thanks a lot!
Thank you!😊
@@DenZhdanovPianist thank you always! 🙏🏻
Thanks for all you teach! It's a bit expensive for me now in Ukraine buy your course, but really thanks for give such good advices here on RUclips!
I often do 50% time-limited discounts on the newly published courses, stay tuned!
Astounding🎉
Thanks for commenting!💙
Thanks!
Thank you for this!
Glad it was helpful!🙂
Thanks for your tips and recomendations
My pleasure 😊
Thanks for this! I like the emphasis on warmup, and appreciate you listing all the other areas of daily practice, including one or two I used to separate out (which meant they too often were skipped). In contrast I have trouble getting all those other areas into only 50% of my practice time! But I’m a re-starter not a new beginner so I know from long-ago experience how important this is. Your summary of it was helpful.
I looked at the ear training course and it has the homework assignments and sound files so you can test yourself, check your dictation, etc. but i don’t see actual course content. Am I overlooking it?
Thanks for a feedback and sharing your thoughts!
Another style is doing some activities 1-2 times per week but longer.
That’s the course content as far as I understand, you just listen to files, write down or play it, and check yourself with a book.
Have you heard about task fatigue. If your practice more than 30 minutes the practice quality goes down. So you should practice 30 minutes then take 10 min break than practice 30 mins again
Good idea!
Hi Denis thank you so much for every video I try not to miss even a single video of you!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏 In one of your videos would you mind telling us how was your hand recovery what kind of treatment did you get to recovery what kind of physiotherapy you had for your hand after you got injury? I have carpal tunnel and I am applying all kinds of modern techniques nice gantle warm up routine. Noting seems to work...I am going to get an other treatment on September but this time physiotherapy will be included. If you don't mind telling us the process of your hand recovery I would be grateful. But if you would mind I understand you deeply. Thank you very much for every knowledge you give us and for all your wonderful videos🙏🙏🙏💐🌺💐🌺💞
Sorry to hear about your situation! But I did have only muscle issues, so my experience would not be very helpful for you! I hope you’ll find a great doctor who will help you!🤞
@@DenZhdanovPianist Thank you very much for your good wishes dear Denis🙏💐🌺 But carpal tunnel is e muscle issue you know. If something worked for you that would inspire me too. Recovery has a spiritual or belief part you know. But thank you very much anyway🙏💐🌺 I will do my best👍🏻
Oh really, as far as I am informed, a carpal syndrome is a neurological disorder involving the median nerve. Unfortunately, each issue needs a specific treatment, but I’ll think about making a video sharing my experience, of course!
@@DenZhdanovPianist Thank you so so much dear Denis🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐🌟🌟🌟You are my kind of idol a kind of hero🌺💐🍀🌺I would find enough courage to heal if watch how you recovered thank you so much🙏🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰💐🍀💞 By the way if I am wrong carpal tunnel is a muscle sequizing the median nerve if that muscle get too thight. That tunnels get nerow and press onto the median nerve. I hope treatment works this time. Thank you so much dear Denis 🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰💐🍀 I wish all the best for you always!!!🌺🌟💞🍀🤗🌟🌺
@@DenZhdanovPianist As a second thought, such a video would harm harm to your positive energy dear Denis I would not like this at all. And besides it may not work for me either..yes my solutions would be different..one of my fingers is broken..I will concentrate on using it more gently. This might solve the half of the problem. Please don't worry about making a video about this🙏🙏🙏🙏I will find a good doctor and I will be ok. I wish all the best for you dear Denis🙏🙏🤗💐💞🍀🌟🌺You are such a great pianist!!💐💐💐💐💞💞💞All your videos changed my piano technique Iitimproved very much already. Thank you for everything🙏🙏💐🌺🌟💞💐🌺🌟🍀💐💞🌺
warm up chords: Rachmaninoff Op2#3 played slowly? I do like exercises that are also parts of actual music :))
Mister Denis i want you to ask you something. Since you started playing the piano have you ever made your wrists getting any pain? Is this normal for a pianist to develop pain in wrists? I m encounter this problem and i don't really know if should stop playing the piano. I know well that its some kind of bad technic but i really want to ask a good pianist if this was a problem as well during your young period of learning the piano.
No, pains are not normal and usually point on a not healthy playing habits. I have many videos on this topic on this channel, you may start here:
ruclips.net/video/QD9QcmlygKo/видео.htmlsi=hreEmAt2BX2H_xkW
@@DenZhdanovPianist thank you very much.
OH MY GOODNESS!!!! This is a life changing video! Thank you so much,Mr Zhdanov 🫶🏻🫶🏻
@7:39 I got sold! do you teach jazz?
No, I am a classically trained pianist, and despite I have interest in jazz, I teach only areas of my best expertise.
Do you call a dominant 7 chord a major-minor chord in ukraine?
Usually, just a dominant 7th chord
was repertoire mentioned? Actually learning a piece?
Yes
You started talking about sightreading and then...до, ре ми, до, ре, до. Тhe answer will be: соль, фа, ми, ре до! LOL
👍💯
CDECDC is a good joke
I absolutely disagree with you. Beginners want to do well but they don’t have the first idea as how much time would be the minimum amount of time to spend practicing so that they will see improvement. I hope you are not a teacher.
So what exactly in this video is contradicting to this claim that you think you have to absolutely disagree?
It buffles me how someone might not be able to see the expertise Denis has over what he teaches.
What a silly comment velcroman11. I play professionally and imo this man has great content.