I love this topic and would appreciate another video or online lesson to discuss. I'm particularly interested in jumps and arpeggios without looking. and (re) building these properly so that I can improvise a bit
I love that last comment, my teacher used to say "good, you did it 9 times wrong and 1 time correctly - what do you think will happen on the 11th attempt?" 😂
Many possible factors. Memorization. Are you reading too slowly (not scanning and anticipating notes or passage position changes, etc). Are you late to set up key positions? Are you playing too fast to control positioning? Do you know your fingering? Too many difficulties and you cannot manage them all at current speed.
Practicing slowly also feeds better (less-cluttered) data into your brain for processing and storage. Your brain *WILL* remember what you did. Which is why it is so critical not to feed it repeated mistakes -- which is too often the outcome of practicing too fast. When you practice "play - oops - play - oops - play - oops - play " your brain remembers, "play - oops - play - oops - play - oops - play ". Now you have to tell your brain, "OK, I know you learned "play - oops - play - oops - play - oops - play " -- but *NOW* what I want you to learn is "play - play - play - play - play - play - play". Unfortunately, your brain has now learned two pieces: "play - oops - play - oops - play - oops - play " - and "play - play - play - play - play - play - play". So now you have twice as much work to do: - teach your brain to *REMEMBER* "play - play - play - play - play - play - play " - teach your brain *NOT* TO REMEMBER* "play - oops - play - oops - play - oops - play " It is orders of magnitude better (faster, easier) to NEVER EVER teach your brain the first piece ...
I've been notified that the only way to improve the sound of my playing is to lift me off the bench and replace me with another player...
😂😂😂 your comment made me laugh!
I love this topic and would appreciate another video or online lesson to discuss. I'm particularly interested in jumps and arpeggios without looking. and (re) building these properly so that I can improvise a bit
Always fun when something so simple turns out to be something so profound. Thank you
Pleasure
Simple, and to the point. Thanks :-)
Thank you. You have improved my playing considerably!
Glad to hear it!
I love that last comment, my teacher used to say "good, you did it 9 times wrong and 1 time correctly - what do you think will happen on the 11th attempt?" 😂
Absolutely!
Thank you 😊😊
Pleasure 😊
Many thanks. You're the first person who ever told me WHY to practice slowly. That's after having played several instruments for over 50 years...
❤️thank you
Really good advice and I give the same to all of my students. I might make them watch this video
Thank you!🙏
How do you eliminate hesitations?
Great question!
It’s already on our list for future videos!
Many possible factors. Memorization. Are you reading too slowly (not scanning and anticipating notes or passage position changes, etc). Are you late to set up key positions? Are you playing too fast to control positioning? Do you know your fingering? Too many difficulties and you cannot manage them all at current speed.
Thanks for this useful advice. Often tempting to play too fast
My pleasure
Hello. I am trying to find a good institutions to study piano performance and composition. Any suggestions.
Practicing slowly also feeds better (less-cluttered) data into your brain for processing and storage.
Your brain *WILL* remember what you did. Which is why it is so critical not to feed it repeated mistakes -- which is too often the outcome of practicing too fast. When you practice "play - oops - play - oops - play - oops - play " your brain remembers, "play - oops - play - oops - play - oops - play ".
Now you have to tell your brain, "OK, I know you learned "play - oops - play - oops - play - oops - play " -- but *NOW* what I want you to learn is "play - play - play - play - play - play - play".
Unfortunately, your brain has now learned two pieces:
"play - oops - play - oops - play - oops - play "
- and
"play - play - play - play - play - play - play".
So now you have twice as much work to do:
- teach your brain to *REMEMBER* "play - play - play - play - play - play - play "
- teach your brain *NOT* TO REMEMBER* "play - oops - play - oops - play - oops - play "
It is orders of magnitude better (faster, easier) to NEVER EVER teach your brain the first piece ...
Absolutely
slower is faster
If you can play slow, you can play fast!
A new piano to stop playing sloppy?
My playing is not sloppy😢