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None : You are self-taught. Neighborhood : A casual neighborhood teacher. Hoffman Academy : New to Hoffman Academy? Try Lesson 1. Professional : An experienced teacher with a degree in music and accomplished students.
Elite : An experienced teacher with an advanced degree in music who consistently produces advanced, professional-track students. When you have reached a certain level, you can expect to be able to master any piece at that level with just a few weeks of practice.
It is possible to learn a piece a few levels higher than your current level, but it may takes months of practice. Not only that, there may be technical challenges in the piece that you are not fully prepared for. In general, piano students can reach Level 1 after a year of dedicated study, Level 2 after two years, and so forth, but this is only a rough guideline.
Both hands can play together with increasing complexity. Now you can play faster songs, and are incorporating more dynamics and expression. You can play one-octave scales in a few keys, stretch your fingers to handle skips, and use a variety of chords. You perform at greater speeds and your virtuosity is beginning to emerge.
You can play C. And, it makes sense because we have to make sure that our blocks of practice time will actually fit into our schedules. But, there are a lot of piano students out there messing around at the piano, not really accomplishing anything, just waiting for their minute timer to ring. This is a very common downfall of setting practice standards based on time. Repetition-centered goals are often effective.
Keep a tally on a Post-It and work your way through those 50 repetitions throughout the week. These are very concrete, achievable goals that beginning pianists can easily accomplish.
Many pianists experience this frustrating feeling at the piano: The more you practice, the worse it gets. This is extremely common and almost every pianist can relate to a time when their practicing felt like it was going nowhere. Sometimes we focus too hard on the problems.
Or, tension builds as we are working. Or, we lose the focus that we had when we first sat down at the piano. All of these things contribute to the struggle of feeling like things are going down-hill as you are practicing.
For this reason, it makes a lot of sense to break up your practice time into smaller practice sessions throughout your day. And, if you make a point of frequently stopping by your piano to work in small bits of time, it will likely add up to more time than you would spend in a single practice session each day.
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Remember Me. Stay Connected. This is just for me, though. Hoped this helps. Good article — thank you! Thanks for the input! Figuring out what to do between practice sessions is tricky indeed — and I like your list of suggestions TV is definitely a no-no. During exams last semester I snuck a table into my preferred practice room so I could study during my practice breaks. Worst idea ever… I felt like I was in a concentration camp.
Now I keep my study strictly in the library and study areas, and I always a motivational self-help book into the practice room. Works a charm. I find that meditating for fifteen minutes or so between practice sessions is very effective for me.
It not only rests my mind, but slows it down and re-centers it; allowing my 2nd and 3rd practice sessions of the day to be longer and more productive. While there are many forms of meditation I prefer mindful meditation. Focused, deliberate practice is exhausting. I love your ideas, they are really amazing. I play the Cello and the writing pad to write down your ideas and your thoughts about what your doing wrong, how to fix that problem, and etc is useful.
I think it is really thoughtful of you to be explaining to people who need help about their instrument usage and what they could try to do better or a little less with their instrument. I absolutely love the 5 keys for more effective practices that you wrote about. I love how you showed and explained what performers and psychologists say and think about how many hours to play, how much practice is enough, is there a thing for practicing enough, and is there an optimal number of hours that on could practice.
Like the other person who responded, I also do other tasks between practice sessions. I find reading or watching tv is the worst things I could do. I never seem to be able to get back into practice mode. I find doing tasks like housework are a good break, like handwashing dishes, vacuuming or dusting.
Getting out also helps so cutting grass or going out to run errands. Great article! So many think that if they spend more time that solves the problem or gives them an excuse. Thanks Dr. Kageyama, excellently thought out and conceived article. These ideas are SO important. I wish somebody had taught me how to practice when I was a young kid. So many wasted hours.
I spend so much of my time in lessons teaching my students these ideas. Thanks for helping me focus my ideas and inspiring me to renew my goals to move my students in this direction!
What a great article! Thank you for writing this so concisely:- , Ingrid. Would you suggest that these guidelines for practice are the same or similar for all variants of musical genres? Classical, popular, jazz, folk? I play guitar, bass and piano but find it hard to practice on the bass because I am only practicing a part…yet when I play piano or guitar I play melody AND harmonic accompaniment and thus can hear and feel the entire form.
So when I want to learn a piece, I do so by playing and practicing the piece on BOTH guitar and piano…then it seems to just fall in place on the bass. Is that practicing with my head?
Thanks for a thought-provoking presentation! One of my favorite books that addresses the topic of what it takes to achieve mastery is called, simply, Mastery , written by George Leonard. Your idea of learning the other parts involved in the group, so as to have a better sense of where your bass part fits into the whole is a great idea. Classical musicians can benefit from this kind of approach as well, especially when it comes to orchestral excerpts, which, played in isolation out of context, often feel and sound more like etudes than great music.
I have found practicing with one of the computerized music practice programs with the bass helped me tremendously.
Of course, already mentioned is recording one part so you can practice the other parts. Years ago there was available, MMO for music minus one. An orchestral arrangement, complete except for your part. You might want to check and see if they are still available, and for the particular piece of music you are wanting. These are ideas all worth remembering. I find them most difficult to remember when I have an enormous work load to practice. The industrial psych literature indicates that people are more productive when they take breaks; I expect that this finding would be just as applicable to musicians in the practice room as well.
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Learn the 1 thing that top practicers do differently, plus 7 other strategies for practice that sticks. If performances have been frustratingly inconsistent, try the 4-min Mental Skills Audit.
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