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Idk if this is helpful or not but the first 3 and a half minutes I lost interest. It all sounds like a scam or you’re selling something. You badly need to get to the point. Edit 4:20 in and were just BARELY getting to the point. Edit edit omfg 5 minutes in and we finally have new info.
I appreciate your comment. Just sharing my story of how I learned it. Not a scam. For the record, my channel is 90% shorts that get the point right away. The longer videos, for me, are a chance to go in more depth and give context. There is so much info on the Internet. The last thing people need is another idea or concept with no idea where it came from or how powerful it is. When I give the story that lead to the discovery as well as the struggle I had BEFORE the discovery, it makes the treasure more valuable, does it not? Doesn't it feel more important when you can see what I had to go through to get this info? And how many top teachers/ practice hours/ and competitions etc. When you go to the movies, do you just want to watch the climactic scene right away? Or do you want the lead up that makes it necessary? When you go on a date... same thing. To drive this home further, if you want a video that gives you the answer without a little investment of your time, it's not for you. Frankly, people like that 9/10x never get very good at anything. I am not calling you personally out. But I am simply sharing my experience having worked with 130 in person students over 14 years. Those that want results fastest improve the least. Those that are willing to endure, dig, and figure it out improve a TON. And yes, I am selling something made very clear in the pinned comment before you even watch the video- a Black Friday Piano Bundle offer, as it is that time of year. But it's simply an invite only mentioned in the last 15 seconds of the video for those that REALLY want to go deeper into the topic.
@AaronPetitPiano HI Aaron, I was a minute and a half in, thinking the same thing about getting to the gist when I saw the above comment from the other viewer. I appreciate that you took the time to respond.
Great points, Brother! You are a great man and I love watching your videos. My only two cents is that GOOD TECHNIQUE is essential and lack thereof is the reason why people make little progress. NO technique means you set yourself a ceiling for what you can achieve. The main issues I see in most non-professionals? Tension and lack of finger dexterity. Their little joints collapse when playing and they are EXTREMELY TENSE. Once those issues are resolved, a WHOLE NEW WORLD OPENS!
100%. Allow me to give you a free bonus... Give me a passage you are working on and what makes it difficult. I will break it down as an extension of this video actually applied. :)
@@AaronPetitPianoTutorialsright now doing the Nutcracker suite in Tchaikovsky's own piano arrangement. I'm doing the harp cadenza before the waltz starts. It's not super difficult per se as it's just a lot of A7 chords but trying to keep a beautiful sound with a singing melody at speed is what I can't reliably get just yet. The most recent short on ny channel shows the best of a couple runs.
@@pianoplaynight Nice! Good work. First thing I notice is the height you lift your 5's is inconsistent. Some quite high off the key, some almost at key surface. Being very conscious about evening that out will smooth the sound. And the less lift the better. But too close and you don't get the physical freedom. Great way to practice for tonal control (with this 90/10) in mind. Play the passage totally flat (no shaping) at 6 dynamic levels. mp, mf, p, F, pp, FF. When you get fairly proficient at one, go the the next. The added challenge of a different dynamic gives more control to the others. And specifically, starting at the easier mid range and going out to the more challenging pp, FF will add fluency. That should be no more than a 15-20 mins practice session if you are very focused. Hope it helps. :)
Just discovered your channel . Brilliant! What you say makes soo much sense. I think I will start applying this idea to everything in life. So many applications that go way beyond music
Yeah, thanks for this great tip and sharing your journey to get there - sounds like a heck of a lot of work! I recently got a similar message from a video by Diego Alonso (although a guitarist). He gets into a bit too much arbitrary detail for my liking, but it was about the quality of attention we pay to a task - in that case, learning pieces - and the point was that if it's easy, you don't pay attention, and while you might appear to make progress as you practise, it doesn't stick, but if you make a harder goal, you put the day's work into long-term memory. Your additional point about stress is interesting, as it naturally causes us to pay attention. What I realised was that I was reading pieces waiting for the time when I'd played them enough to memorize them and ditch the reading part, but (as you said), I'd never get through them or learn them completely, while it felt frustrating because it felt easy! I switched to the harder task of trying to play pieces without the music, even very early on in learning a piece, only turning to the score when I was sure I couldn't remember how it went. It helped enormously to do that last 10%, or at least make a lot more progress through that 10% AND at the same time learn the pieces without the score, which I thought was a whole later stage. Also, focusing now on my fingers, hands, arms, general technique, etc., instead of reading dots, is a revelation, leading to further challenges to do with fingering choices, flow and expression.
Thanks for sharing all this. And yes, It was a lot of work, but now it's so worth it because I get more done in 1 hour than I used to in 4 or 5! Sounds like you have had some great breakthroughs as well! :)
So basically the easier is something to learn, the less adaptation happens aka progress overall in the piano playing because it's something familiar and the brain doesn't focus that much. It's the same principle like lifting weights, if you don't push yourself making progressive overload you are gonna get stuck with the same weights forever.
When he says this is the ONLY principle to practice every single time - it feels like it’s telling me more than advising me I’d say we all memorise differently and it’s arrogant to assume otherwise I remember my first guitar teacher saying when you tense (stressed ) you form a stress barrier in your head so the information can’t penetrate I remember wasting an entire hour lesson trying to harmonise in singing with no support- it never got easier because it was harder And I did focus idk maybe there something wrong with me Got take into account there are MANY courses that say they teach something Witt some secret technique that saves hours look at Stephen Ridley on the piano So you can see why people might be sceptical
Yea you bring up a good point that I did actually address but not directly. The skill must be about 10% past your difficulty so that you can adapt to the stress. If it's 50% past your difficulty, your brain will shut down. That is likely what happened with the harmonies in singing. It was too much of a jump. Also, I am talking about the stress of figuring something out. Not the stress of physical tension. Hope that helps. As for Stephen Ridley, he's not 10% of the pianist I am. And I can back that up with over 30 professional recordings on my other UA-cam Channel. See Beethoven Waldstein Sonata or Strainsvky Rite of Spring Solo Piano both under my name. So be a skeptic if you prefer. But at least I can back up my teaching with my own playing that has won me international competitions. (Unlike Stephen).
@@russellmills6436 yes EXACTLY! Love “burn and learn”. This flies in the face of the traditional “play 5 or 10x perfectly at each metronome click and gradually speed up”. But always gets you their faster z
The main issue is that you need good technique; it is not just increasing tempo gradually. The reason why most people struggle with speed is because THEY LACK GOOD TECHNIQUE. They have weak fingers and tension. The former is especially a problem, but also the latter. The little joints CANNOT COLLAPSE or wobble because like that, YOU CANNOT ACHIEVE EVENNESS and CLARITY. You have NO CONTROL over the keyboard and this is why mistakes/slips happen, because people DO NOT have sufficient finger strength to control the keyboard. I use what I learned from Alexander Braginsky and Tania Spector over a decade back with students who are serious and it WORKS. Even within weeks, the speed of their playing increases considerably. LOW WRIST (relaxed arm completely) and drop into the keyboard relaxed. This naturally lets your non-playing fingers hang in the air, and bring them down from ABOVE.
On a second note, Aaron gives great advice and you SHOULD definitely listen to him. He is a great mind and is a genius in his own right. Come on! The guy started when he was 12 and he is dazzling!
Thanks for the feedback. Wasn't sure if it would be more helpful to have them or not. I was testing out a new idea so I am glad to know it wasn't working. :)
Terrible. It is so simple: use Art Tatum's advice, "play the tune in every key, and it will come to you." Counting towards the beat (not from the beat) works too. Try this on easy pieces first (Schumann advice to pianists) such as Solal, _JazzSolal_ (not the butter notes) or the _Anna-Magdalena Notebook_ (butter notes; listen to E. Power Biggs selection on _The Bigg's Bach Book_ ). Can you play one of the Bach Inventions in all 12 keys? And for variety, how about Tchaikovsky's _Album for the Young__? Oscar Peterson's _Jazz Minuets, Études and Pieces_ . ... Like they say in _Art and Fear_, try quantity (transposition, counting out loud, naming notes (perfect pitch style), naming notes position in scale ( mobile do style), and so on...) over quality for a while.
You contradict yourself without meaning to... This video was about the 90/10 principle. (Moving to harder at the 80 or 90 percent mark to make the initial thing easier). By learning something in another key, you are making it harder... which causes stress that your brain adapts to. Then you grow and in turn, it makes the first key easier. This process of all keys literally PROVES the theory behind this video which you just described as terrible. And for the record, Not only can I play a Bach invention in 12 keys, I actually do learn classical music this way. I memorized this Bach Fugue in all 12 keys before this recording... ua-cam.com/video/23ahGsPICHc/v-deo.html
Noodling isn't practice. Playing the same songs or progressions over and over is practice only of those things. You can only get better at what you practice. If you don't spen your 10k hours practicing advancing skills, you won't improve.
@@AaronPetitPianoTutorials no offense my friend, but the whole first half of the video was literally repeating the same thing with different formulations. Something which could have taken 20-30 seconds max. And the main information was grasped in 1-2 minutes (useful information actually, thanks), then the rest of the video was repeating this information over and over until the end. Answering your question, the whole video could take 2-3 minutes without losing any information. Thus, the rest is considered as water, a term used for not useful filler. Thanks for paying attention.
Gotcha. Well I wanted it to be really clear what it took to get this so people took it more serious. it's not just a simple tip even though it sounds like that on the surface. It's the linchpin of everything I learned. I felt it very important to stress that from different point. It's only water if you view it that way. The proof is in the pudding in terms of my playing which is well documented on UA-cam. "Rite of Spring Solo Piano - Aaron Petit". I spent over a thousand hours in private piano lessons over the years that could be condensed to probably 100 hours or less of information. Does that mean I should call my teachers 90% water? Ridiculous! The reality is, no gold nuggets exist in a vacuum. They come with the build up and all the other stuff around them. I gave you a principle that took me over 10 years to learn in 10 mins... Can you explain how that is not valuable?
Seems like you know some learning psychology so I wont hold back with the terms. I think what you’re basically describing is interleaving and percolation. Although im ngl you should explain these in a different way To the people: And this isnt that revolutionary just learn some basic learning science and apply it to piano rather than Buying this guy’s course. Or check out Justin sung or kinnu(psychology section). Its elaborated way better
It's frankly arrogant, rude, and ridiculous to tell people not to buy my course when you have only seen the 7 minute introductory video (3:40-10:26) of a 3 hour course. You have no right to comment when you don't know what is in my course. If you want to buy, watch it, and review, and still hate it, I will refund you in full and pay you $97 on top of that. (That's my guarantee for everyone) If you don't want to do that, then please refrain from commenting such things. In terms of this video... It simply explains a simple principle to people come into the rest of the course with that key understanding. It's hard (if not impossible) to build from this if people don't get it. On a lighter note (pun intended), I do appreciate the recommendation of Justin Sung. The thing is... it's not meant to be generic. I am making this specific to piano learning. And the rest of the course breaks down countless piano examples. So even if he does explain it better, there is just no comparison unless he specifically breaks down piano technique and learning.
Well, I didn't waste any of mine given that this method of learning allowed me to learn Stravinsky's Rite of Spring for solo piano. You would be wise to not ignore this fact. ua-cam.com/video/xFO8qxw3ziI/v-deo.html
@@AaronPetitPianoTutorials I admire that, this is truly outstanding preformance, and I bow to You. But your magical recipe for progress seems pretty obvious. At least for people whm done anything in their life. At least for me. Maybe not so obvious for all the rest. Maybe not.
@@sklepa Ok that clarifies. The initial implication was that the material was not accurate or helpful. But instead, you are saying that you already knew it. In that case, I didn't waste your time at all. I confirmed you are on the right track. I listen to about 200 hours of podcast material per years. Mostly in the business entrepreneur realm / self help realm/ or Christian faith realm. Naturally, a large part of what I hear gets repeated OVER and OVER and OVER.... Yet that's just the nature of learning. If something is true, everyone will talk about it. You will hear it many times. How many times did your teacher tell you to play slowly or practice with the metronome? Did you tell them they wasted your lesson time after the first time they suggested it?
@@AaronPetitPianoTutorials And after all that, we still manage to meet people which seems to not have a clue :D And for the latter - never, because I've never had a piano teacher, because I've bought mine a month ago hah! :)(and maybe I never will, because I treat it just casually, I will never have even 5% of your skill in this area, and Im fine with that, Im pretty down to earth with expectations). And no, I would not tell them that. My click to your video, my fault. And if You feel attacked, my bad, I apologize. Yet still, I can write comments so I do :)
@@sklepa It's not a matter of being attacked. It's matter of reframing your mindset to HELP you get more value... If you just signed up for piano recently, you will realize very soon how easy it is to NOT push yourself when things aren't consistent. 99% percent of learners end up drilling the same thing over and over hoping it will get better. So even if you "know" this, watch out. Push for harder every time you practice. Each repetition. Never settle for "stagnate" repetitions.
@@AaronPetitPianoTutorials gotta love the internet. People say things they would never DREAM of saying to you in person. Glad to have discovered your channel Aaron.
@@InTheMindOfAPianist Oh it's hilarious. I actually have a folder on my computer of hundreds of these types of comments over the years. A fine addition to my collection. :)
There is no linear progression in playing the piano since it is a form of art. Because of that, Aarons concept have ever been common practice in piano pedagogy. Listen to K545 played by students and then played by Sokolov (or any other piece of music). Maybe you'll get the point. (Neuhaus told that for gifted students it could be very benefitial to tackle stuff much above their current level. Wasn't Richters very first encounter a Chopin etude?)
@jaradastin7478, One guy made this statement in one book and it became some freak show of the universe. 10,000 hours of practice. It’s a common rule of thumb, popularized by Malcom Gladwell in his bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success. It’s catchy, easy to remember, and more or less completely false. Gladwell totally misunderstood Ericsson and his violinists that 10,000 hours was an average, and not all the best violinists had put in this number by age 20. In fact, half of the best hadn’t put in anything near 10,000 hours. Yet they were masters of their craft. Also in college it takes about 5 years to earn that "Master" degree. Working 2000 hours a year will get you 10,000 hours. Many things in our American Education System is drawn out for the benefit package of the educator hence, government employees. It the student happens to get an education during the process then that is a great side effect. But first and foremost the education system is a business. There are plenty of bilingual preschool children that have proved that Gladwell is the one that was wrong.
Good to know. I didn't feel there was much room to play in this clip. It's also only 1 video from a 3 hour course where I have at least 30 examples. So this was the intro concept that applies to more specifics later. I will keep your comment in mind for future videos that are clips of other things. :)
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Also this📕"The Art of Practice" is not specific to piano... (written by a world record holding juggler)
but did in fact give me a SYSTEM for things I had learned on the piano over my entire career.
It will cut your practice time in half with less effort and more results!
I highly recommend it. Especially for how affordable and valuable the audio book is.
bit.ly/LimitlessProgress
Idk if this is helpful or not but the first 3 and a half minutes I lost interest. It all sounds like a scam or you’re selling something. You badly need to get to the point.
Edit 4:20 in and were just BARELY getting to the point.
Edit edit omfg 5 minutes in and we finally have new info.
I appreciate your comment.
Just sharing my story of how I learned it. Not a scam. For the record, my channel is 90% shorts that get the point right away.
The longer videos, for me, are a chance to go in more depth and give context. There is so much info on the Internet. The last thing people need is another idea or concept with no idea where it came from or how powerful it is. When I give the story that lead to the discovery as well as the struggle I had BEFORE the discovery, it makes the treasure more valuable, does it not? Doesn't it feel more important when you can see what I had to go through to get this info? And how many top teachers/ practice hours/ and competitions etc.
When you go to the movies, do you just want to watch the climactic scene right away? Or do you want the lead up that makes it necessary?
When you go on a date... same thing.
To drive this home further, if you want a video that gives you the answer without a little investment of your time, it's not for you.
Frankly, people like that 9/10x never get very good at anything. I am not calling you personally out. But I am simply sharing my experience having worked with 130 in person students over 14 years. Those that want results fastest improve the least.
Those that are willing to endure, dig, and figure it out improve a TON.
And yes, I am selling something made very clear in the pinned comment before you even watch the video- a Black Friday Piano Bundle offer, as it is that time of year.
But it's simply an invite only mentioned in the last 15 seconds of the video for those that REALLY want to go deeper into the topic.
@AaronPetitPiano
HI Aaron, I was a minute and a half in, thinking the same thing about getting to the gist when I saw the above comment from the other viewer. I appreciate that you took the time to respond.
@@josa720 :) I try and respond to every comment on my channel. Especially the constructive feedback ones.
Play the video at 2x speed, takes half the time.
Sorry aber hier is youtube. It’s not instagram. After just 3 Minutes you don‘t have patience anymore?😮
Great points, Brother! You are a great man and I love watching your videos.
My only two cents is that GOOD TECHNIQUE is essential and lack thereof is the reason why people make little progress. NO technique means you set yourself a ceiling for what you can achieve.
The main issues I see in most non-professionals? Tension and lack of finger dexterity. Their little joints collapse when playing and they are EXTREMELY TENSE. Once those issues are resolved, a WHOLE NEW WORLD OPENS!
Very good advice. A lot of times a piece just doesn't get better (or even gets worse) upon repetition. Targeted study breaks are the way to go.
100%. Allow me to give you a free bonus... Give me a passage you are working on and what makes it difficult. I will break it down as an extension of this video actually applied. :)
@@AaronPetitPianoTutorialsright now doing the Nutcracker suite in Tchaikovsky's own piano arrangement. I'm doing the harp cadenza before the waltz starts. It's not super difficult per se as it's just a lot of A7 chords but trying to keep a beautiful sound with a singing melody at speed is what I can't reliably get just yet. The most recent short on ny channel shows the best of a couple runs.
@@pianoplaynight Nice! Good work. First thing I notice is the height you lift your 5's is inconsistent. Some quite high off the key, some almost at key surface. Being very conscious about evening that out will smooth the sound. And the less lift the better. But too close and you don't get the physical freedom.
Great way to practice for tonal control (with this 90/10) in mind. Play the passage totally flat (no shaping) at 6 dynamic levels. mp, mf, p, F, pp, FF. When you get fairly proficient at one, go the the next. The added challenge of a different dynamic gives more control to the others. And specifically, starting at the easier mid range and going out to the more challenging pp, FF will add fluency.
That should be no more than a 15-20 mins practice session if you are very focused.
Hope it helps. :)
@@AaronPetitPianoTutorials thank you! Will try it out 🙏
Just discovered your channel . Brilliant! What you say makes soo much sense. I think I will start applying this idea to everything in life. So many applications that go way beyond music
So glad to hear. :) Keep it up. Reach out any time. If you want more tips for free, see this link.
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Thank you for this lesson. It happened to me, exactly this. I cannot move forward after reaching 90% of the piece
It's a very common issue. :) What is an example? I can give a suggestion on how to actually make the next step.
❤You have nailed it. Yes exactly- thank you for making this video!
Glad you enjoyed! :)
Yeah, thanks for this great tip and sharing your journey to get there - sounds like a heck of a lot of work! I recently got a similar message from a video by Diego Alonso (although a guitarist). He gets into a bit too much arbitrary detail for my liking, but it was about the quality of attention we pay to a task - in that case, learning pieces - and the point was that if it's easy, you don't pay attention, and while you might appear to make progress as you practise, it doesn't stick, but if you make a harder goal, you put the day's work into long-term memory. Your additional point about stress is interesting, as it naturally causes us to pay attention.
What I realised was that I was reading pieces waiting for the time when I'd played them enough to memorize them and ditch the reading part, but (as you said), I'd never get through them or learn them completely, while it felt frustrating because it felt easy! I switched to the harder task of trying to play pieces without the music, even very early on in learning a piece, only turning to the score when I was sure I couldn't remember how it went. It helped enormously to do that last 10%, or at least make a lot more progress through that 10% AND at the same time learn the pieces without the score, which I thought was a whole later stage. Also, focusing now on my fingers, hands, arms, general technique, etc., instead of reading dots, is a revelation, leading to further challenges to do with fingering choices, flow and expression.
Thanks for sharing all this. And yes, It was a lot of work, but now it's so worth it because I get more done in 1 hour than I used to in 4 or 5! Sounds like you have had some great breakthroughs as well! :)
So basically the easier is something to learn, the less adaptation happens aka progress overall in the piano playing because it's something familiar and the brain doesn't focus that much. It's the same principle like lifting weights, if you don't push yourself making progressive overload you are gonna get stuck with the same weights forever.
When he says this is the ONLY principle to practice every single time - it feels like it’s telling me more than advising me
I’d say we all memorise differently and it’s arrogant to assume otherwise
I remember my first guitar teacher saying when you tense (stressed ) you form a stress barrier in your head so the information can’t penetrate
I remember wasting an entire hour lesson trying to harmonise in singing with no support- it never got easier because it was harder
And I did focus idk maybe there something wrong with me
Got take into account there are MANY courses that say they teach something Witt some secret technique that saves hours look at Stephen Ridley on the piano
So you can see why people might be sceptical
Yea you bring up a good point that I did actually address but not directly. The skill must be about 10% past your difficulty so that you can adapt to the stress. If it's 50% past your difficulty, your brain will shut down. That is likely what happened with the harmonies in singing. It was too much of a jump.
Also, I am talking about the stress of figuring something out. Not the stress of physical tension.
Hope that helps.
As for Stephen Ridley, he's not 10% of the pianist I am. And I can back that up with over 30 professional recordings on my other UA-cam Channel. See Beethoven Waldstein Sonata or Strainsvky Rite of Spring Solo Piano both under my name.
So be a skeptic if you prefer. But at least I can back up my teaching with my own playing that has won me international competitions. (Unlike Stephen).
90 10. I had a teacher say "burn and learn" especially with tempo. Stuck at 120? Try it at 150. 150 was a mess but Now I get to 130 quite quickly.
@@russellmills6436 yes EXACTLY! Love “burn and learn”. This flies in the face of the traditional “play 5 or 10x perfectly at each metronome click and gradually speed up”. But always gets you their faster z
The main issue is that you need good technique; it is not just increasing tempo gradually. The reason why most people struggle with speed is because THEY LACK GOOD TECHNIQUE.
They have weak fingers and tension. The former is especially a problem, but also the latter. The little joints CANNOT COLLAPSE or wobble because like that, YOU CANNOT ACHIEVE EVENNESS and CLARITY. You have NO CONTROL over the keyboard and this is why mistakes/slips happen, because people DO NOT have sufficient finger strength to control the keyboard.
I use what I learned from Alexander Braginsky and Tania Spector over a decade back with students who are serious and it WORKS. Even within weeks, the speed of their playing increases considerably.
LOW WRIST (relaxed arm completely) and drop into the keyboard relaxed. This naturally lets your non-playing fingers hang in the air, and bring them down from ABOVE.
On a second note, Aaron gives great advice and you SHOULD definitely listen to him. He is a great mind and is a genius in his own right.
Come on! The guy started when he was 12 and he is dazzling!
Love it!
:) Nice. What did you find most helpful?
I always used to say "Practice *has* to be hard"
omg ty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course, my friend! What's your piano background?
Great video! (Except the distracting captions)
Thanks for the feedback. Wasn't sure if it would be more helpful to have them or not. I was testing out a new idea so I am glad to know it wasn't working. :)
Terrible. It is so simple: use Art Tatum's advice, "play the tune in every key, and it will come to you." Counting towards the beat (not from the beat) works too. Try this on easy pieces first (Schumann advice to pianists) such as Solal, _JazzSolal_ (not the butter notes) or the _Anna-Magdalena Notebook_ (butter notes; listen to E. Power Biggs selection on _The Bigg's Bach Book_ ). Can you play one of the Bach Inventions in all 12 keys? And for variety, how about Tchaikovsky's _Album for the Young__? Oscar Peterson's _Jazz Minuets, Études and Pieces_ . ... Like they say in _Art and Fear_, try quantity (transposition, counting out loud, naming notes (perfect pitch style), naming notes position in scale ( mobile do style), and so on...) over quality for a while.
You contradict yourself without meaning to...
This video was about the 90/10 principle. (Moving to harder at the 80 or 90 percent mark to make the initial thing easier).
By learning something in another key, you are making it harder... which causes stress that your brain adapts to. Then you grow and in turn, it makes the first key easier.
This process of all keys literally PROVES the theory behind this video which you just described as terrible.
And for the record, Not only can I play a Bach invention in 12 keys, I actually do learn classical music this way.
I memorized this Bach Fugue in all 12 keys before this recording...
ua-cam.com/video/23ahGsPICHc/v-deo.html
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@@osbournecox98 lol 😂
Noodling isn't practice. Playing the same songs or progressions over and over is practice only of those things. You can only get better at what you practice. If you don't spen your 10k hours practicing advancing skills, you won't improve.
So much water!!
Huh?
@@AaronPetitPianoTutorials no offense my friend, but the whole first half of the video was literally repeating the same thing with different formulations. Something which could have taken 20-30 seconds max.
And the main information was grasped in 1-2 minutes (useful information actually, thanks), then the rest of the video was repeating this information over and over until the end.
Answering your question, the whole video could take 2-3 minutes without losing any information. Thus, the rest is considered as water, a term used for not useful filler.
Thanks for paying attention.
Gotcha. Well I wanted it to be really clear what it took to get this so people took it more serious. it's not just a simple tip even though it sounds like that on the surface. It's the linchpin of everything I learned. I felt it very important to stress that from different point.
It's only water if you view it that way. The proof is in the pudding in terms of my playing which is well documented on UA-cam. "Rite of Spring Solo Piano - Aaron Petit".
I spent over a thousand hours in private piano lessons over the years that could be condensed to probably 100 hours or less of information. Does that mean I should call my teachers 90% water?
Ridiculous!
The reality is, no gold nuggets exist in a vacuum. They come with the build up and all the other stuff around them. I gave you a principle that took me over 10 years to learn in 10 mins... Can you explain how that is not valuable?
Seems like you know some learning psychology so I wont hold back with the terms. I think what you’re basically describing is interleaving and percolation. Although im ngl you should explain these in a different way
To the people:
And this isnt that revolutionary just learn some basic learning science and apply it to piano rather than
Buying this guy’s course. Or check out Justin sung or kinnu(psychology section). Its elaborated way better
It's frankly arrogant, rude, and ridiculous to tell people not to buy my course when you have only seen the 7 minute introductory video (3:40-10:26) of a 3 hour course.
You have no right to comment when you don't know what is in my course. If you want to buy, watch it, and review, and still hate it, I will refund you in full and pay you $97 on top of that. (That's my guarantee for everyone)
If you don't want to do that, then please refrain from commenting such things.
In terms of this video...
It simply explains a simple principle to people come into the rest of the course with that key understanding. It's hard (if not impossible) to build from this if people don't get it.
On a lighter note (pun intended), I do appreciate the recommendation of Justin Sung.
The thing is... it's not meant to be generic. I am making this specific to piano learning. And the rest of the course breaks down countless piano examples. So even if he does explain it better, there is just no comparison unless he specifically breaks down piano technique and learning.
you wasted couple minutes of my life, and i don't know how much of yours
Well, I didn't waste any of mine given that this method of learning allowed me to learn Stravinsky's Rite of Spring for solo piano.
You would be wise to not ignore this fact.
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@@AaronPetitPianoTutorials I admire that, this is truly outstanding preformance, and I bow to You. But your magical recipe for progress seems pretty obvious. At least for people whm done anything in their life. At least for me. Maybe not so obvious for all the rest. Maybe not.
@@sklepa Ok that clarifies. The initial implication was that the material was not accurate or helpful. But instead, you are saying that you already knew it.
In that case, I didn't waste your time at all. I confirmed you are on the right track.
I listen to about 200 hours of podcast material per years. Mostly in the business entrepreneur realm / self help realm/ or Christian faith realm.
Naturally, a large part of what I hear gets repeated OVER and OVER and OVER....
Yet that's just the nature of learning. If something is true, everyone will talk about it. You will hear it many times.
How many times did your teacher tell you to play slowly or practice with the metronome?
Did you tell them they wasted your lesson time after the first time they suggested it?
@@AaronPetitPianoTutorials And after all that, we still manage to meet people which seems to not have a clue :D And for the latter - never, because I've never had a piano teacher, because I've bought mine a month ago hah! :)(and maybe I never will, because I treat it just casually, I will never have even 5% of your skill in this area, and Im fine with that, Im pretty down to earth with expectations). And no, I would not tell them that. My click to your video, my fault. And if You feel attacked, my bad, I apologize. Yet still, I can write comments so I do :)
@@sklepa It's not a matter of being attacked. It's matter of reframing your mindset to HELP you get more value...
If you just signed up for piano recently, you will realize very soon how easy it is to NOT push yourself when things aren't consistent. 99% percent of learners end up drilling the same thing over and over hoping it will get better.
So even if you "know" this, watch out. Push for harder every time you practice. Each repetition. Never settle for "stagnate" repetitions.
You are wrong. "They" say that 10,000 is a marker to achieve MASTERY. something you will most likely never achieve with this attitude. Keep shedding.
Feel free to watch "Aaron Petit Rite of Spring Piano Solo" and come back to tell me I haven't achieved mastery. :) I'm all ears.
@@AaronPetitPianoTutorials gotta love the internet. People say things they would never DREAM of saying to you in person. Glad to have discovered your channel Aaron.
@@InTheMindOfAPianist Oh it's hilarious. I actually have a folder on my computer of hundreds of these types of comments over the years. A fine addition to my collection. :)
There is no linear progression in playing the piano since it is a form of art. Because of that, Aarons concept have ever been common practice in piano pedagogy. Listen to K545 played by students and then played by Sokolov (or any other piece of music). Maybe you'll get the point. (Neuhaus told that for gifted students it could be very benefitial to tackle stuff much above their current level. Wasn't Richters very first encounter a Chopin etude?)
@jaradastin7478,
One guy made this statement in one book and it became some freak show of the universe.
10,000 hours of practice. It’s a common rule of thumb, popularized by Malcom Gladwell in his bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success. It’s catchy, easy to remember, and more or less completely false.
Gladwell totally misunderstood Ericsson and his violinists that 10,000 hours was an average, and not all the best violinists had put in this number by age 20. In fact, half of the best hadn’t put in anything near 10,000 hours. Yet they were masters of their craft.
Also in college it takes about 5 years to earn that "Master" degree. Working 2000 hours a year will get you 10,000 hours.
Many things in our American Education System is drawn out for the benefit package of the educator hence, government employees.
It the student happens to get an education during the process then that is a great side effect. But first and foremost the education system is a business.
There are plenty of bilingual preschool children that have proved that Gladwell is the one that was wrong.
Too much lecture with out demos on the piano is boring 🪴!!
Good to know. I didn't feel there was much room to play in this clip. It's also only 1 video from a 3 hour course where I have at least 30 examples. So this was the intro concept that applies to more specifics later.
I will keep your comment in mind for future videos that are clips of other things. :)