Practice Tips for Piano Students

This piano podcast by SFA Piano Pedagogy students will highlight various techniques that piano teachers can share with their piano students in order to improve efficiency in practicing piano.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• piano
• pedagogy
• practice
• suggestions
• tips
• music
• education

[araviski]

Thanks !

btw what is the child song at 4:02 ?

[mariocast]

@araviski: Lullaby by Johannes Brahms

[hobohot]

yup, thanks guys!

[ralgha]

Thank you! You covered a lot of great questions here. I think I'll try to start keeping a log book. For fingering, you mentioned writing in your own fingering as a last resort, but does that help you figure out the right fingering? (By getting you to focus on it more?) For gradually raising tempo, is it really just metronome + practice? I've been trying to do this with the beginning of the 3rd movement of the Moonlight Sonata for the past several years... it's quite challenging.

[lonewolf604]

Great....now can you give me tips on how to practice Chopin's Ballade no 1? lol

[PoirePerry]

YEsss " Woah woah why are you playing so fast? " " Its says Allegro" lmao I did this with my teacher lol but he is gone now....he left me alone and void of lesson and life..

[CrispNightmareCrew]

they are playing iffily cuz their wrists are bobbing too much, no flow.

niec vid though

[yobrandon11]

For harder classical songs, I suggest learning the right hand then the left hand vice-versa separately until you can figure the notes. Then, play together at a slow steady tempo. If you hesitate to think what note comes next, then your playing at a fast tempo. Slow tempo and then gradually increase your speed. Hope this helps =P

[KILAH4716]

Next time you do something like this, could you make sure the voices are louder than the piano?

[johnl5r3w]

if i follow your tips will i be able to play liszt?

[gott1rott]

haha I thought the lady in the beginning was serious.

[exAequora]

thanks guys

i've been away from lessons for a few years now,

and getting back into it has been hard,

but this has reminded me of things to do to teach myself

[hotcowuk]

thanks guys. Needed those tips.

[kanichiwoh]

great help..

THNX!