honestly, you are the humblest pianist and piano tutor I've ever seen. I have been following you for a while and after 20 years of discouragement and resentment I have started to play the piano again and realised that a kind, honest and humble teacher like you would change a student's perspective of studying the piano. Thank you ! :)
Thanks Josh, you seems to be a really nice person. Don't ever lost that sparkling of light. If I ever have the opportunity to go abroad, hope to meet you. My best wishes for you and your family.
Josh you are a true inspiration to me, both your teaching and your humble and sweet character, you are the one and only reason I do what I do now and I basically owe you everything that happened to me during these couple of years. I can never thank you enough, I wish to meet you someday (and maybe have a lesson with you haha :D) Greetings to you and your lovely family.
Carter D "9:59 means he is doing the videos for the people" Which means: anything over 10 minutes is against the people. Which means, him wanting more ads is not for the people, or bad. No one misinterpreted shit.
Majority of things we wish we never count up the costs ! Would you be ready as a kid to practice at least 2 hours a day and by the time you were 12 you were studying 4-6 hours a day. By the time you were a teenager , you would be practicing 8 hours a day! I had a similar path and I tell you is demands a lot of sacrifice ! Usually if you do not know about classical , you have no idea how difficult , challenging , that is! Listen attentively to A pianist called Kissin playing Chopin ‘s ballades , Etudes , Liszt’s transcendental Etudes ... listen and you will have a clearer understanding!
What got me into piano was when my dad bought an 88 key piano online (A really good quality keyboard), and after that I was immediately hooked and played about 4 hours that night. :) 7 months later I'm still hooked to the piano and I love piano so much, idk what I would do without music.
Hey Josh. Thank you for sharing this with your viewers ! It's really beneficial and great pleasure to grow up in a family with interest in music. That child would certainly appreciate the advantage of early learning for the rest of their lives. Support and Respect to you from Brisbane, AUS.
Hey Josh, I have played piano for about 10 years when I was young, but for the reason of my further education, I rarely have the opportunity to continue to play. Recently I bought a piano because I really want to re do it, could you perhaps do a video for how to re practice or some advice for people like me? I really appreciate it. Thanks!
I've always hated these types of videos ahaha makes me realize my lack of true dedication. Im only kidding though. Its awesome to hear a little bit about you josh thank you!
I'm inspired also, amazing! The amount of time I should study piano is 75 minutes a week, including about 30 minutes daily. I was in the special Olympics for golf and won 4th place. I need to watch my typing.
Hey Josh, curious as to how you supported yourself financially whilst doing your bachelor and beyond. Was it mostly teaching and accompanying work or did you also have a part time job?
Hi Jordan - it was all teaching, accompanying, and a bit of performing/recording (these last two brought in the least amount of money, but still supplemented a bit). I've always told my students that if they're good sight-readers, they will never have to flip burgers haha. If you're a good accompanist and can sight-read quickly and are easy to work with, you will be in very high demand as an accompanist. I've always liked teaching more, so I don't accompany anymore unless it's a family member or a colleague, but it was a lot of fun when I was at the universities accompanying other instrumentalists and vocalists.
I think it's massively important to stress that practice time follows a learning curve as any other human skill. More than 6 hours per day is beneficial as long as they're not done uninterrupted. 3 sessions of 2 hours with sufficient rest.
I don't know if I am glad now to hear that all pianists are that good because they PRACTISE really hard and not only because it's "in their blood". Or if I am sad because I never can catch up 35 years :( I wasn't allowed to learn piano as a child (too expensive...), struggled through flute and guitar (instruments I never really got a sense for, with teachers that couldn't teach me to understand and like music theory) and then I forgot about how lovely it would be to play an instrument I really love until the age of 39. Now I've been learning for 3,5 years, looking for every music theory video and tutorial I can find, diligently practising 2 hrs a day and seeing some progress, but it feels so slow. Especially sight reading doesn't really get better... if I'd just learned that as a child, it'd be sooo much easier.
So often we hear "oh so and so is so 'gifted' at music" as if the fairy godmother waved her wand over someone's cot and magically bestowed upon them 'the gift of music'. But no! What Josh, you make clear here is that it's not a gift, it's a GRAFT! a hard graft... years of practice and application. If there's any gift at all it's the gift of patience and persistence and concentration, and the ability to derive pleasure from the hours of repetition that it takes to grow those neurones and develop the skills and learn the language that is music. No doubt if I'd spent as many hours studying stock market trading as I have learning music I would be a much wealthier man... well, financially at least.... 🤔
Thank you so much for sharing. This makes me feel a lot better about where I'm at. :) Plus, learning about other musicians' backgrounds is one of my favorite things, haha.
So fun to see this, even though I am quite late, haha. I was in a classroom at the UNC Greensboro where you gave a Skype presentation for my Piano Pedagogy class. I was hooked with your content. Thanks for sharing your background. I am hoping you can share a video on how to decide what repertoire to play after college as a busy teacher. :)
Hay Josh😊 I ve been playing the piano for 2 years now and I wonder what your practice routine was when your were practicing 2 - 2,5 hours a day😄 I do 1 hour and try to incorporate technique exercises, sight reading and my piece (currently pathètique sonata). I'd be nice if you could answer my question😊
It's crazy to hear what it was like to start practicing an instrument at such a young age, especially as someone who has only started playing piano for the last year and a half and is trying to hit 2/3 hours a day practice. I wonder if it is even possible to ever make up for all that missed experience.
Appreciate you so much josh, I’m a 17 year old pianist from New York and I would love your advice on this, how do I choose the right college? And is college necessary and beneficial ? I don’t have much money but I want to be an all time great piano player and I put the effort in, but not sure which is the best route after highschool any advice ,
Hi Joseph Cassano, I'm not Josh Wright but I am also in high school and hoping to further pursue piano in college. Unless you are a prodigy who has practiced 10 hours a day since six years old (no offense if you are) or you have a millionaire benefactor/benefactress who can fund your freelance career (no offense if you do), attending a university will provide more opportunities for careers and neat experiences. The most important thing for any musician hoping to attend college is the professor. One of my friends who just graduated with his Bachelor's in Piano Performance told me that when you're looking at universities, you need to love the professor, because if you attend that university, you will spend several years soaking up their lifetime's worth of wisdom. Of course, you are the only one who decides what you want to do with your life, and you will know if you want to pursue Piano instead of Business or Engineering or Foreign Languages etc. If you're serious about Piano, research colleges, take a private lesson (or two) with several professors (most offer one free private lesson), narrow down your list of colleges to apply to, and complete the audition process. Best wishes!
guillaume fauconnier Thanks Guillaume! At this point it’s all about what needs the most work (I have made a video about how to divide up your practice time that you can check out). But for students, I generally would suggest 20-30 mins dedicated technique, 15-30 mins sightreading according to their individual needs, then the rest of time on repertoire, generally not exceeding 1-2 hours in a day on any one section or piece.
Hi Josh! Very curious. What books and methods did you use in the very beginning years? I've been listening to you every day for a while, running out of UA-cam videos lol so I'm subscribing soon. Thanks!
A good childhood is definitely most important, don't feel bad about not practicing more then. You still practiced quite a bit in your younger years. I had a parent with narcissistic personality disorder and was forced to practice. Luckily I enjoy it now and made it a profession, and my parent can't stand it!
Do you have any videos going over what you would practice in those daily hours? I usually feel like I get stumped on how to stay creative with practice unless I'm just doing stuff like improvising and I can get demotivated from the lack of stimulation in that regard, if I'm just doing rote technique without doing it in a creative or expressive way. This usually makes me end up practicing a lot less after a burnout from all that "hard line in the sand" style of practice.
Awesome, thanks. I'll check that one out. I'm always looking for new ways to practice cause technique can be so dry. Some of your videos have proven invaluable as my level of musical thinking has gone higher over the years; I'm primarily self-taught through indirect teachers. Finding the intermediate and higher level resources can be tough sometimes.
Right now I'm practicing about one hour a day, and my goal is to get to four-five hours a day by the end of the year! Thanks for all the tips, they have helped a lot!!! Also, my ultimate goal is to become a concert pianist, but, I don't know if that is possible since, I have only been playing piano for 4 and a half years.( I'm about to be 17 next Month) I also can't afford a private teacher😥 what do I do?😫🙏
Probably it is not beneficial for you Josh, but I listen to your Chopin piano competition every single day. It is so beautiful!!! Did you notice that the presenter said your name wrong? Did she apologize? It was very awkward.
Hello dear❤.. Could you please make a video about returning to practice after a very long annoying cut (non practicing for a long time).. Dor high levels of skill.... How could we return to our previous stamina and level❤ Thanks.
Poor Cleveland, nobody wants to live there. Even Babayan, who was adopted by Cleveland like an adorable starving puppy, has moved to New York. Cleveland's my hometown and I was at the Casadesus competition that Babayan won (audience member). 1989 I think. Gaby Casadesus was still alive and there. Babayan was truly awesome and a spot in his studio would have been a good reason to move to Cleveland. But Ann Arbor's a great place and Michigan a great school. Anyways, I enjoyed hearing about your background, didn't know you were from Utah. Which I don't blame you for coming back to. I currently live in Oregon and am just besotted with the West.
Dont worry about those people who practice 8 hours a day, I use practice 12 hours a day and still got nothing to play perfectly as you 🙃 so now I am back to 8 hours a day.
It is debateable whether practising for 8-9 hours a day will accomplish what they pianists concerned believe. After 4 hours there is so much lactic acid build-up in your muscles, that they can't perform very well at all and you will in fact not learn when you hoped for, unless you take at least a 2.5 hour break. I write this as an Accelerated Learning Trainer of 11 years experience, but I've also seen a prof from Julliard say this. Also, trying to learn anything new after 7pm is not a good idea - your brain is getting ready for sleep then, so all you will be doing is seting up a mental battle in your body, which is entirely counter-productive. It takes 2 hours to learn something new after 7pm, compared with 15 minutes beforehand. The time after 7pm should be used for reading music only, and this should be specifically for revision purposes ONLY. You want to be as tired as possible when you read the music, so it passes as in a blur. This means your conscious mind will not be reasiing any objections, and that is what you want because then you will know it wll be passing wordlessly into your unconscious mind, and that is the most powerful part of your brain. You can learn as much from visualising as you can from practising. The same slow and fast-twitch muscles fibres work in your body when you visualise as do when you are actually playing. Schabel hated practising. He used to do visualising to get round it. In this way he got away with two hours per day..... And I have tested this with myself and others. Using the visualisation technique I mention, you can get someone who is struggling with a passage to play it flawlessly very early on, during their practice time, if not first time round. It cuts hours off the work you have to do! It's a no brainer!
I play piano and i have to say i never had a teacher whom will teach me correctly because of that my uhm. Nerves are being pinched by my bone or i have tendonsitis something like that so i have to do surgery they thing is if i do it they say i wont be able to do piano still havent done it but yet i keep practicing and since i dont really sleep i tend to practice maybe.. 7-8 hours everyday because of it yet i cant seem to level up to a higher lever i really hope i can but i am very discouraged about it
Domenique Lee Check out Taubman technique. It specializes in avoiding and reducing injury with piano playing or avoiding aggravating any injury you have.
hello everyone i'm 14 and i'd love to be in piano competitions but i was wundring if it was to late bc I've only been playing since age 13 and all the people who win competitions are like child prodidji's.
When you are 2 or 3 your brain is quite plastic and you learn very quickly. That declines rapidly and by 5 or 6 you are probably too old. After age 6 unless you are a Mozart type prodigy, expect to practice 4 hours a day for a decade or two before entering international piano competitions. Most people wildly underestimate how good concert pianists really are.
It sounds to me that you had a successful fortunate. You're a pretty lucky person. I wish I had the resources and determination you had. What did it for you? I'm just curious.
I told my son if he was very focused in his practice time; and If he met his teachers goals, he could stop practice for that day. He averages about 4 hours a day. I wanted him to have a life away from the piano as well. You only have 1 childhood.
Piano becomes boring if you don't challenge yourself. In theory, I am at level 5, yet all the songs I play are level 7 or above (Arizona Study Program level scale). Now even after a month or so I cannot play them near perfect, but they're challenging enough that I want to become better to play them, so I put time and effort into doing that. I don't do 3-4 hours, usually 1-2, but i've still made great progress in the 5-6 years i've played piano. Piano also might just not be for you, considering you said you get bored after 10 minutes.
GUYS UNDER THE CITY it can also be boring if you practice pieces that you hate, no kid had ever gets bored when they play 5 hours of video games because thwy enjoy it, my number one rule for good progress and practicing and playing what you love
3rd generation pianist from age 4...with up to 2.5 hrs a day..... 😳😳😳😳 Damn... Be very interested what did you do in them hours? Exercises only. Pieces or both?
honestly, you are the humblest pianist and piano tutor I've ever seen. I have been following you for a while and after 20 years of discouragement and resentment I have started to play the piano again and realised that a kind, honest and humble teacher like you would change a student's perspective of studying the piano. Thank you ! :)
Thanks Josh, you seems to be a really nice person. Don't ever lost that sparkling of light. If I ever have the opportunity to go abroad, hope to meet you.
My best wishes for you and your family.
Josh you are a true inspiration to me, both your teaching and your humble and sweet character, you are the one and only reason I do what I do now and I basically owe you everything that happened to me during these couple of years.
I can never thank you enough, I wish to meet you someday (and maybe have a lesson with you haha :D)
Greetings to you and your lovely family.
TheGreenPianist thanks so much! I appreciate your friendship here on UA-cam. Would love to meet up in person one day
9:59 long. That's how you know Josh is doing his videos for the people.
Carter D if you dont like the ads get an adblocker. Its not his obligation to do his videos for free
Trollsey I don't think you could possibly have misinterpreted my comment more. I meant he didn't add an extra second so he could run a second and.
Carter D
"9:59 means he is doing the videos for the people"
Which means: anything over 10 minutes is against the people.
Which means, him wanting more ads is not for the people, or bad.
No one misinterpreted shit.
Trollsey When did I say over 10 minutes is against the people tho
Carter D oh my god. We are going to play this game now huh? Please fuck off from my notifications
I wish my family taught me piano. Ur a lucky man bro
Teach yourself, then teach your children.
GUYS UNDER THE CITY Your family can teach simple music texture like josef bayer and Virgil Thomson to inspire Kids's interesting learn piano
@; of course, simple music texture can make kids and adults to have interesting learning piano like Virgil Thomson and josef bayer.
Majority of things we wish we never count up the costs ! Would you be ready as a kid to practice at least 2 hours a day and by the time you were 12 you were studying 4-6 hours a day. By the time you were a teenager , you would be practicing 8 hours a day! I had a similar path and I tell you is demands a lot of sacrifice ! Usually if you do not know about classical , you have no idea how difficult , challenging , that is! Listen attentively to A pianist called Kissin playing Chopin ‘s ballades , Etudes , Liszt’s transcendental Etudes ... listen and you will have a clearer understanding!
I'm truly inspired.
So happy to hear that :)
Are you a Mormon?
What got me into piano was when my dad bought an 88 key piano online (A really good quality keyboard), and after that I was immediately hooked and played about 4 hours that night. :) 7 months later I'm still hooked to the piano and I love piano so much, idk what I would do without music.
its been 2 years, how are you doing in piano? :)
@@bryvnxiii4632 Doing really well! Got an upright a year ago and I absolutely love it, doing the RCM grade 8 exam this june :D
@@alexadansereau3701 that’s incredible inspiring how old r u
@@milessinger1492 Turned 15 yesterday
It's been 4 years, how far have you gotten?
Hey Josh. Thank you for sharing this with your viewers ! It's really beneficial and great pleasure to grow up in a family with interest in music. That child would certainly appreciate the advantage of early learning for the rest of their lives. Support and Respect to you from Brisbane, AUS.
Thank you so much for your kindness!
Hey Josh, I have played piano for about 10 years when I was young, but for the reason of my further education, I rarely have the opportunity to continue to play. Recently I bought a piano because I really want to re do it, could you perhaps do a video for how to re practice or some advice for people like me? I really appreciate it. Thanks!
Josh, you are such a sincere and great person.
I've always hated these types of videos ahaha makes me realize my lack of true dedication. Im only kidding though. Its awesome to hear a little bit about you josh thank you!
Haha thanks Ben!
It's about achieving balance. Which you have. Very inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
Wow, I feel your way of talking is quite as clear and precise at your piano playing.
I'm inspired also, amazing! The amount of time I should study piano is 75 minutes a week, including about 30 minutes daily. I was in the special Olympics for golf and won 4th place. I need to watch my typing.
Enjoy the family! There is nothing like it!!!!
josh ...you are one of my favorite teacher in youtube ......thank you for everything.your student from Saudia Arabia.
Hey Josh, curious as to how you supported yourself financially whilst doing your bachelor and beyond. Was it mostly teaching and accompanying work or did you also have a part time job?
Hi Jordan - it was all teaching, accompanying, and a bit of performing/recording (these last two brought in the least amount of money, but still supplemented a bit). I've always told my students that if they're good sight-readers, they will never have to flip burgers haha. If you're a good accompanist and can sight-read quickly and are easy to work with, you will be in very high demand as an accompanist. I've always liked teaching more, so I don't accompany anymore unless it's a family member or a colleague, but it was a lot of fun when I was at the universities accompanying other instrumentalists and vocalists.
Josh Wright Thank you for that Josh!
Insightful interview. Nice to see a pianists personality.
I think it's massively important to stress that practice time follows a learning curve as any other human skill. More than 6 hours per day is beneficial as long as they're not done uninterrupted. 3 sessions of 2 hours with sufficient rest.
I don't know if I am glad now to hear that all pianists are that good because they PRACTISE really hard and not only because it's "in their blood". Or if I am sad because I never can catch up 35 years :( I wasn't allowed to learn piano as a child (too expensive...), struggled through flute and guitar (instruments I never really got a sense for, with teachers that couldn't teach me to understand and like music theory) and then I forgot about how lovely it would be to play an instrument I really love until the age of 39. Now I've been learning for 3,5 years, looking for every music theory video and tutorial I can find, diligently practising 2 hrs a day and seeing some progress, but it feels so slow. Especially sight reading doesn't really get better... if I'd just learned that as a child, it'd be sooo much easier.
So often we hear "oh so and so is so 'gifted' at music" as if the fairy godmother waved her wand over someone's cot and magically bestowed upon them 'the gift of music'. But no! What Josh, you make clear here is that it's not a gift, it's a GRAFT! a hard graft... years of practice and application. If there's any gift at all it's the gift of patience and persistence and concentration, and the ability to derive pleasure from the hours of repetition that it takes to grow those neurones and develop the skills and learn the language that is music.
No doubt if I'd spent as many hours studying stock market trading as I have learning music I would be a much wealthier man... well, financially at least.... 🤔
Hay Josh, thank you for this video:) But could you also show us how your practice routine looked like? 😁 What did you exactly practice? 😆
Thank you so much for sharing. This makes me feel a lot better about where I'm at. :) Plus, learning about other musicians' backgrounds is one of my favorite things, haha.
Amy King thanks so much Amy. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors!
So fun to see this, even though I am quite late, haha. I was in a classroom at the UNC Greensboro where you gave a Skype presentation for my Piano Pedagogy class. I was hooked with your content. Thanks for sharing your background. I am hoping you can share a video on how to decide what repertoire to play after college as a busy teacher. :)
Hay Josh😊 I ve been playing the piano for 2 years now and I wonder what your practice routine was when your were practicing 2 - 2,5 hours a day😄 I do 1 hour and try to incorporate technique exercises, sight reading and my piece (currently pathètique sonata). I'd be nice if you could answer my question😊
I'm curious about this too.
I'm late to the party finding your channel Josh, but I'm so glad I did!
Impressive bio, thanks for sharing!
Spectral thanks so much for the kindness!
It's crazy to hear what it was like to start practicing an instrument at such a young age, especially as someone who has only started playing piano for the last year and a half and is trying to hit 2/3 hours a day practice. I wonder if it is even possible to ever make up for all that missed experience.
how is it going?
"Your hair was crazy." I like you very much man, but indeed it was. Anyhow, this was a great video, nice hearing about your journey.
Akashdeep Singh thanks for the support Akashdeep!
Thank you very much for your gift.
Benkvulo Thong thanks Benkvulo
Appreciate you so much josh, I’m a 17 year old pianist from New York and I would love your advice on this, how do I choose the right college? And is college necessary and beneficial ? I don’t have much money but I want to be an all time great piano player and I put the effort in, but not sure which is the best route after highschool any advice ,
Hi Joseph Cassano, I'm not Josh Wright but I am also in high school and hoping to further pursue piano in college. Unless you are a prodigy who has practiced 10 hours a day since six years old (no offense if you are) or you have a millionaire benefactor/benefactress who can fund your freelance career (no offense if you do), attending a university will provide more opportunities for careers and neat experiences. The most important thing for any musician hoping to attend college is the professor. One of my friends who just graduated with his Bachelor's in Piano Performance told me that when you're looking at universities, you need to love the professor, because if you attend that university, you will spend several years soaking up their lifetime's worth of wisdom.
Of course, you are the only one who decides what you want to do with your life, and you will know if you want to pursue Piano instead of Business or Engineering or Foreign Languages etc. If you're serious about Piano, research colleges, take a private lesson (or two) with several professors (most offer one free private lesson), narrow down your list of colleges to apply to, and complete the audition process. Best wishes!
Wow! You’ve got a huge brain dude!
Thank you for sharing that. That was seriously inspirational!
hi Josh, great inspiration from you ! I would like to know how do you split your practice time when you do 3 or 4 hours of piano a day ?
guillaume fauconnier Thanks Guillaume! At this point it’s all about what needs the most work (I have made a video about how to divide up your practice time that you can check out). But for students, I generally would suggest 20-30 mins dedicated technique, 15-30 mins sightreading according to their individual needs, then the rest of time on repertoire, generally not exceeding 1-2 hours in a day on any one section or piece.
Wow! Impressive! Wow!
I played on the golf team too lol! You have a great background!!!
Great video sir. I didn’t know you went to Michigan. My voice teacher got his DMA there and studied with George Shirley.
Hi Josh! Very curious. What books and methods did you use in the very beginning years? I've been listening to you every day for a while, running out of UA-cam videos lol so I'm subscribing soon. Thanks!
A good childhood is definitely most important, don't feel bad about not practicing more then. You still practiced quite a bit in your younger years.
I had a parent with narcissistic personality disorder and was forced to practice. Luckily I enjoy it now and made it a profession, and my parent can't stand it!
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing! Your great
Can it be that you were essentially away from the piano during the two years of your missionary work? How did that work?
wow - so gorgeous! You could so be a model!
Do you have any videos going over what you would practice in those daily hours? I usually feel like I get stumped on how to stay creative with practice unless I'm just doing stuff like improvising and I can get demotivated from the lack of stimulation in that regard, if I'm just doing rote technique without doing it in a creative or expressive way. This usually makes me end up practicing a lot less after a burnout from all that "hard line in the sand" style of practice.
Yes - check out my videos "Finding Inspiration", "Not Becoming Bored" and the videos on practice and technique regimen for specifics :)
Awesome, thanks. I'll check that one out. I'm always looking for new ways to practice cause technique can be so dry.
Some of your videos have proven invaluable as my level of musical thinking has gone higher over the years; I'm primarily self-taught through indirect teachers. Finding the intermediate and higher level resources can be tough sometimes.
So would you time your practice sessions to know you were getting two and a half hours? Or was it less regimented than that?
Haha yes...I timed it.
Right now I'm practicing about one hour a day, and my goal is to get to four-five hours a day by the end of the year! Thanks for all the tips, they have helped a lot!!!
Also, my ultimate goal is to become a concert pianist, but, I don't know if that is possible since, I have only been playing piano for 4 and a half years.( I'm about to be 17 next Month) I also can't afford a private teacher😥 what do I do?😫🙏
Probably it is not beneficial for you Josh, but I listen to your Chopin piano competition every single day. It is so beautiful!!! Did you notice that the presenter said your name wrong? Did she apologize? It was very awkward.
Hello dear❤..
Could you please make a video about returning to practice after a very long annoying cut (non practicing for a long time)..
Dor high levels of skill.... How could we return to our previous stamina and level❤
Thanks.
Poor Cleveland, nobody wants to live there. Even Babayan, who was adopted by Cleveland like an adorable starving puppy, has moved to New York. Cleveland's my hometown and I was at the Casadesus competition that Babayan won (audience member). 1989 I think. Gaby Casadesus was still alive and there. Babayan was truly awesome and a spot in his studio would have been a good reason to move to Cleveland. But Ann Arbor's a great place and Michigan a great school.
Anyways, I enjoyed hearing about your background, didn't know you were from Utah. Which I don't blame you for coming back to. I currently live in Oregon and am just besotted with the West.
What church were you from when you went on your mission?
I am perfect thank u the end
Did you try Chopin competition maybe?
Where did you serve?
Dont worry about those people who practice 8 hours a day, I use practice 12 hours a day and still got nothing to play perfectly as you 🙃 so now I am back to 8 hours a day.
How on earth do you do that? School? Job? Family? Leisure time?!
It is debateable whether practising for 8-9 hours a day will accomplish what they pianists concerned believe. After 4 hours there is so much lactic acid build-up in your muscles, that they can't perform very well at all and you will in fact not learn when you hoped for, unless you take at least a 2.5 hour break. I write this as an Accelerated Learning Trainer of 11 years experience, but I've also seen a prof from Julliard say this. Also, trying to learn anything new after 7pm is not a good idea - your brain is getting ready for sleep then, so all you will be doing is seting up a mental battle in your body, which is entirely counter-productive. It takes 2 hours to learn something new after 7pm, compared with 15 minutes beforehand. The time after 7pm should be used for reading music only, and this should be specifically for revision purposes ONLY. You want to be as tired as possible when you read the music, so it passes as in a blur. This means your conscious mind will not be reasiing any objections, and that is what you want because then you will know it wll be passing wordlessly into your unconscious mind, and that is the most powerful part of your brain. You can learn as much from visualising as you can from practising. The same slow and fast-twitch muscles fibres work in your body when you visualise as do when you are actually playing. Schabel hated practising. He used to do visualising to get round it. In this way he got away with two hours per day..... And I have tested this with myself and others. Using the visualisation technique I mention, you can get someone who is struggling with a passage to play it flawlessly very early on, during their practice time, if not first time round. It cuts hours off the work you have to do! It's a no brainer!
Man takes several minutes to remind us why he is so much better than other people....
Did you study classical or jazz in college?
'Trust me, you don't want to live in Baltimore' 😂
I think it's too heavy to practice 9 hours a day. Where is your life? Thank you for sharing with us your story, Josh.
Some say liszt could sight read any score you gave him
Chuck Norris thats true
insanityy
For some reason I feel like he would still have trouble sight reading the entire gaspard de la nuit because scarbo and le gibet are a pain to read
Connor Richardson well, it hadn’t been written at that time so we’ll never know. But i’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have had too much problem
Yes, however, there were a few pieces that he couldn't sight-read straight away like some of Chopin's Etudes if I recall correctly.
Ahhh look at tht summer girl blush!!!!!!
I play piano and i have to say i never had a teacher whom will teach me correctly because of that my uhm. Nerves are being pinched by my bone or i have tendonsitis something like that so i have to do surgery they thing is if i do it they say i wont be able to do piano still havent done it but yet i keep practicing and since i dont really sleep i tend to practice maybe.. 7-8 hours everyday because of it yet i cant seem to level up to a higher lever i really hope i can but i am very discouraged about it
Domenique Lee Check out Taubman technique. It specializes in avoiding and reducing injury with piano playing or avoiding aggravating any injury you have.
@@pfstrikes ill look into it thank you!!
I struggle to practice 30 mins a day with family and work!!
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hello everyone i'm 14 and i'd love to be in piano competitions but i was wundring if it was to late bc I've only been playing since age 13 and all the people who win competitions are like child prodidji's.
When you are 2 or 3 your brain is quite plastic and you learn very quickly. That declines rapidly and by 5 or 6 you are probably too old. After age 6 unless you are a Mozart type prodigy, expect to practice 4 hours a day for a decade or two before entering international piano competitions. Most people wildly underestimate how good concert pianists really are.
It sounds to me that you had a successful fortunate. You're a pretty lucky person. I wish I had the resources and determination you had. What did it for you? I'm just curious.
Damn. Wonder how much farther you could have went had you not stressed yourself out with AP courses and college, and focused instead on your passions.
45 min daily at 4 years old, 2.5 hours at teen level, simultaneous bachelors/masters degree, constant recitals…doesn’t seem too hard
Where did you grow up?
123peeonyou Utah
How should we identified “technique”?
Scales, fingering for passages you’re working on, chords, etc
do you play golf today as well
Carl yes :)
I told my son if he was very focused in his practice time; and If he met his teachers goals, he could stop practice for that day. He averages about 4 hours a day. I wanted him to have a life away from the piano as well. You only have 1 childhood.
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I can barely practise for 10 min and i get bored . Im lvl 7 . Like what do u practise FOR 4 HOURS!?
Piano becomes boring if you don't challenge yourself. In theory, I am at level 5, yet all the songs I play are level 7 or above (Arizona Study Program level scale). Now even after a month or so I cannot play them near perfect, but they're challenging enough that I want to become better to play them, so I put time and effort into doing that. I don't do 3-4 hours, usually 1-2, but i've still made great progress in the 5-6 years i've played piano. Piano also might just not be for you, considering you said you get bored after 10 minutes.
haydenaa A ur right...
GUYS UNDER THE CITY it can also be boring if you practice pieces that you hate, no kid had ever gets bored when they play 5 hours of video games because thwy enjoy it, my number one rule for good progress and practicing and playing what you love
TheGreenPianist thank you soo much for that❤️
That's why I practice bach. working on the third mov of his bwv1052 concerto. Enjoy curveball after curveball being thrown at you while learning it.
Was your father present while you were growing up? Maybe I missed it, but you seem to speak only about your mother.
3rd generation pianist from age 4...with up to 2.5 hrs a day..... 😳😳😳😳
Damn...
Be very interested what did you do in them hours? Exercises only. Pieces or both?
More importantly, what’s going on with your hair?
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but utah is so boring.