Great job and I especially like how you said "you Bash through a piece and then you say I am all done practicing" too many enthusiasts do this at least within my 30 years of being a music educator I have seen this.
Remove distractions Slow practice Focus Mental Practice Patience, consistency, persistence Repetition Memorization Listen to recordings, record yourself Maintenance mode Is the piece easy to play? Can you play the entire piece correctly?
These are great tips, thank you!! Practicing tiny little snippets can be such a drag sometimes but I'll try to do more of it. The slow practice is something I need to do more of too. For me, it's not so much that I play wrong notes, it's that the evenness that gets thrown off sometimes when I cut the tempo in half, particularly for the faster pieces. I also only tend to use the metronome when I think I "need" to use it, i.e. for select pieces, but I should probably do more of that too lol. This will be specific to piano but when I memorize, I try to use a four-pronged memorization approach - memorize the sound/pitch, memorize the movement of my fingers, memorize the visual appearance of the notes on the piano being played, and memorize what the score looks like (to a certain extent). I find even if one of those 4 things is off that I can play it well memorized for a while, but there will come a day when I've magically "forgotten" it overnight and need to re-memorize. Depending on the piece and the extent to which the notes are "logical" in the sense that they can be thought of as broken out intervals within a given key signature with minimal accidentals, I find that memorizing hands separately and then putting them together after can greatly speed up the process too. Thanks again!
So glad you enjoyed it! Slow practice is really hard. It almost sounds like another piece and it’s easy to lose sight of what the melody / phrasing can be, but so worth it! I love/hate the metronome haha Those are great tips for memorization, thanks for sharing!
Some great tips, thank you! I've been hitting a wall in my practice recently and I'm not sure whether it's because I'm not practising enough or not in the right way. Do you have a sense of the minimum time to practise for seeing progress?
Thanks! It all depends on how you practice too. I think at least 30 minutes a day for more advanced players is a minimum consistency that is needed for progress. But mainly consistency and focus is huge! You can practice hours but without any direction or focus, you’re better off with even 30 mins of really intensely focused practice. Hope this helps!
Depends on how much time I have for practice! I typically do exercises at the beginning of my first practice session of the day and then if I practice again, I don’t usually do any. Depends though if the exercises are helping a specific piece or just in general, I might do them more if I’m in a base building time of my pieces. If I’m getting ready for auditions, I cut a little back on exercises. So maybe 1/4-1/2 of practice?
Do you have any tips for music practice? 😊
This blew my mind! I already had a crazy respect for you music people, now my respect is at a whole new level! So much dedication to your craft.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I don’t even want to know how many hours I’ve spent practicing violin and piano. But totally worth it!
Great job and I especially like how you said "you Bash through a piece and then you say I am all done practicing" too many enthusiasts do this at least within my 30 years of being a music educator I have seen this.
Thank you!
Love the metronome game!
It definitely makes using the metronome a little more enjoyable!!
Remove distractions
Slow practice
Focus
Mental Practice
Patience, consistency, persistence
Repetition
Memorization
Listen to recordings, record yourself
Maintenance mode
Is the piece easy to play?
Can you play the entire piece correctly?
its a great tips . thank u.
Thank you!!
These are great tips, thank you!! Practicing tiny little snippets can be such a drag sometimes but I'll try to do more of it. The slow practice is something I need to do more of too. For me, it's not so much that I play wrong notes, it's that the evenness that gets thrown off sometimes when I cut the tempo in half, particularly for the faster pieces. I also only tend to use the metronome when I think I "need" to use it, i.e. for select pieces, but I should probably do more of that too lol.
This will be specific to piano but when I memorize, I try to use a four-pronged memorization approach - memorize the sound/pitch, memorize the movement of my fingers, memorize the visual appearance of the notes on the piano being played, and memorize what the score looks like (to a certain extent). I find even if one of those 4 things is off that I can play it well memorized for a while, but there will come a day when I've magically "forgotten" it overnight and need to re-memorize. Depending on the piece and the extent to which the notes are "logical" in the sense that they can be thought of as broken out intervals within a given key signature with minimal accidentals, I find that memorizing hands separately and then putting them together after can greatly speed up the process too.
Thanks again!
So glad you enjoyed it! Slow practice is really hard. It almost sounds like another piece and it’s easy to lose sight of what the melody / phrasing can be, but so worth it! I love/hate the metronome haha
Those are great tips for memorization, thanks for sharing!
Some great tips, thank you! I've been hitting a wall in my practice recently and I'm not sure whether it's because I'm not practising enough or not in the right way. Do you have a sense of the minimum time to practise for seeing progress?
Thanks! It all depends on how you practice too. I think at least 30 minutes a day for more advanced players is a minimum consistency that is needed for progress. But mainly consistency and focus is huge! You can practice hours but without any direction or focus, you’re better off with even 30 mins of really intensely focused practice. Hope this helps!
Thanks Amy. I’m a blues guitarist,... but the principles and methods are universal, right? Thank you!
I would say they are! 😊
if you cant play it slow you cant play it fast...true story! great video!
Thank you!! 😊
Nice
Thank you!
hello beautiful, nice video! thanks for sharing! ;-)
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Helps me a lot. Add me as your fan. God bless you more.
So glad you found it helpful! 😊
lol, not sure if you need more coffee!! are you a sprinter btw?
Haha you’re probably right! And I’m a marathon runner :)
@@amyspurrcaveney that's admirable. In some ways I think endurance sports go hand in hand with music
I do too! Especially the training and discipline needed for both.
new frend here giving u full support. hope to be frends forever. thanks
How do you split working on pieces vs doing exercises?
Depends on how much time I have for practice! I typically do exercises at the beginning of my first practice session of the day and then if I practice again, I don’t usually do any. Depends though if the exercises are helping a specific piece or just in general, I might do them more if I’m in a base building time of my pieces. If I’m getting ready for auditions, I cut a little back on exercises. So maybe 1/4-1/2 of practice?
Thank for sharing very helpful