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if you're putting in hours of piano practice but you're not getting the results you hope for this video is for you you might be currently missing some key elements in your routine sure we know to work on our pieces and throw in some scales but what do we actually need to include in our sessions and how much time do we dedicate to each by the end of this video we're going to answer all those questions so you'll know exactly what to do every day when you practice piano let's first talk about what makes a practice routine effective I think there are three things number one one consistency if you want to get better at any skill consistency especially for piano daily consistency is going to be so important and we've covered this in other videos before but the reason a daily routine is very important is because piano playing the building of coordination skills the building of site reading and theory and playing skills everything to do with piano all that takes a lot of sleep whenever you see a really really awesome piano performance on YouTube or apple music or Spotify when you see someone play really really well that's actually the culmination of a lot of little little little gains made every day so consistency is number one number two is goal settings okay so from assessing my piano students it's the students that really know what they need to do in terms of what they need to do today and what they need to do from a long-term perspective those students tend to progress a lot faster just to give you a quick idea I was working on this one just two days ago so me myself I wasn't really trained much in jazz uh and I wanted to kind of get my hands dirty with playing some boson NOA which is a branch of jazz I took a long time just to like get this I could barely kind of like coordinate this part so a lot of my practice 2 days ago was just being extremely dedicated to just this two bar having a very concrete goal okay I want to learn how to coordinate this Rhythm and I want to get this one done in 20 to 30 minutes so there was a lot of hand separate practice which eventually led to hands together so broadly speaking this general idea of knowing what you're working towards in that practice session don't just play piano and practice piano because you have to play and practice piano so just talking about this general idea of we want to practice piano and actually know what we're trying to achieve in that session rather than just going oh I should practice piano today so I'm just going to go and practice piano blindly and number three is adaptability within piano practice a big thing to kind of think about is definitely motivation and sometimes you're going to focus well sometimes you're going to focus less well and I find that the good students who tend to progress faster they have good adaptability okay so they know that okay let's say today I'm just not quite feeling this piece as well so they know how to let's say practice something else practice let's say another piece going be focused a bit more on Hannon today just to adapt and make sure you get that consistency that daily practice rather than just giving up so remember practice is not about just how much time you spend on the piano it's about how you spend it too let's broadly talk about some key skills you need to include in each level okay so roughly speaking I'm just going to roughly break it up into beginner intermediate and advance so beginner is someone that's played for one to two years intermediate I roughly rate as let's say 3 to 5 years and Advance is more than 5 years so for beginners you want to focus on things like learning how to read sheet music playing short pieces okay pieces that are one to two pages getting very comfortable with chords let's say major and minor chords first learning some simple scales C Major G major in intermediate stage you need to add a few more things to that so if you're in that year 3 to year five range you need to add more technical work okay so you need to do things like arpeggios you need to perhaps start playing some udes okay udes are basically pieces that are written to improve on a piano player's technique and just generally speaking you need to tackle harder and harder pieces okay don't just stay in that kind of like easy level I feel like a lot of how much a piano person increases in the piano skill has got so much to do with how comfortable they are with being uncomfortable it's all about like mastering something and then once you master something try to find something new that is uncomfortable to master and if you just kind of like closed your eyes and did that every day you're going to improve every day for the advanced players this is all about refining repertoire this is all about not just kind of staying with with those three to five pieces that you know it's all all about constantly expanding constantly learning new scales learning new pieces that exposes you to different techniques whatever piano level you're in when you're practicing I think you need to cover three fundamental things you need to cover technique you need to cover music theory and you need to cover repertoire which are your songs and pieces most of the time people kind of nail the last one okay repertoire so when people think about piano practice they're often just kind of like yeah going straight to their piano pieces which which is not a bad idea but in this video I want to advocate for you to do also some other areas that I think are very fundamental to someone's progression and understanding of music so let's talk about part one regardless of your level you should be spending some time on your Technique what do you do for technique okay so I have done videos let's say like [Music] Schmid simple kind of like coordination exercises like that another common one for people to do is Hannon so these are like not really you know piano songs or pieces you don't really kind of perform this for anyone these are exercises that are written primarily for someone to improve on their piano technique so a part of your piano practice needs to be dedicated to technique because without Technique we can't play anything so think about things like warm-ups think about things like scales or exercises such as what I just played Schmid or Hannah these belong in sort of the the technique component of your piano practice the next part of your piano practice uh Theory okay so Theory I often like to just mix this in with let's say your repertoire part so repertoire is your pieces and your songs and you're practicing so let's say you're working on a very famous piece like this one well let's now look at the piece and see we can analyze the chords in it some part of your practice time should be dedicated to things like understanding the key okay so I know this piece is in C major and understanding about like what chords are in in this one okay so we know that this first one is a c this next one okay this one is actually a D Minor with a pedal C if I'm speaking sort of alien language here don't worry uh take some time to kind of like research this and then this one this one's a G chord before it goes back to a c chord so I think some part of your practice needs to be dedicated to to this kind of stuff this kind of analyzing of what's happening within the music because if you're simply just kind of following blindly and playing notes and not understanding what the system is it often results in plateauing after about one or 2 years of playing which I don't recommend try to understand the system of music so that you can go deeper and you can enjoy it even more and then of course we get to the repertoire part of the practice okay so when you're practicing piano you're obviously working on your piano pieces I've done many many videos on how to practice you know pieces and just not to get too much into it in this video but the main thing I want you to really focus on is to play correct notes Rhythm kind of comes in a little bit later for now try to go so awkwardly slow that you're able to play Everything correct if you prioritize that you'll learn the pieces much much faster I'm currently writing a PDF on how piano players can assess their own skills and what they need to do a bit of a checklist of what they need to do to upgrade themselves to the next level if you're interested in this stay tuned for that I will put that in the description and a pinned comment when all that is ready it's a bit of a piano road map especially for the self tour Learners out there stay tuned for that let's drill in now into daily versus weekly goals as a piano player you need to kind of be a really good project manager from different kind of time lengths you need to have a good plan for let's say what you want to achieve in that week and then you also need to be able to know if you want to achieve a page of Music in that week what you have to do daily to achieve that goal so for example today's goal might be to master a tricky leftand passage in bars 21 to 22 and you really really make sure that is done today so that tomorrow you can kind of focus on something else so this is something I want you to think about do you have some concrete daily goals what do you want to achieve today in piano and then also what do you want to achieve in your week try to think in those two lenses weekly and also Daily so if you are a beginner your practice perhaps can look something like this so we're talking something like a 25 minute piano practice routine so we have 5 minutes first for some basic scales C Major G major some finger warm-ups maybe some Schmid and then 15 minutes for your pieces okay and maybe some cord practice if you want to kind of do something that isn't your pieces and then the last 5 minutes you can do you know some site reading site reading just means learning new music or you can do some let's say analysis um some Theory analysis of the pieces you're currently playing as you advance in your level in piano your practice time needs to extend I've worked a lot with students have gone from beginner to intermediate and advanced kind of levels and they often tell me that they don't even realize how much time they're practicing as they increase in levels just because of the amount of material you know the amount of time each thing takes but an intermediate routine might look something like this okay so we have maybe 10 minutes of scales and arpeggios at around this intermediate stage I think someone should try to begin to think about mastering some of uh your 12 major and minor scales plus the arpegios plus the chords so 10 minutes of just building that skill 10 minutes of exercises maybe some Hannon maybe some churny if those are a little bit too dry for you I recommend you to maybe look into some etudes okay so etudes are piano pieces that sound like music pieces but they're written specifically to improve a piano player's techniques AES go check them out a good Google search term might be intermediate piano udes and see what that gives you and then 25 minutes on repertoire okay so your your specific piece or your two or three pieces and make sure always remember to play correct notes ignore Rhythm for now play very slow but play correctly you'll learn a piece much faster that way than sort of blundering it through an advanced routine looks something like this okay so 15 minutes of exercises 30 minutes of repertoire and 15 minutes of site reading or analyzing New pieces so this roughly equates to about 1 hour of practice which I think for some of the Advan players out there and I see in the comments this is like kind of a minimum for some of us when I was really really you know trying to get good at piano I was practicing somewhere between 1 to 2 hours per day so obviously if you're let's say practicing 2 hours you can just twox all of these time allocations for each section couple of other things before I wrap up in this video I want to talk about the Pomodoro Technique this one's also quite a a good one so this is where you have 25 minutes of focused practice and you take a 5 minut um break and the 5 minutes breaks is is a must okay you can't it's not an optional break it's a very strict break that you must take and the idea behind the parodoro technique is it kind of forces you to be very very focused in that 25 minutes because you know you must take a break for 5 minutes after 25 minutes so try this one if you haven't already every piano player eventually will come into contact with burnout so let's talk about it real quickly before we finish to keep piano practice exciting and to avoid burnout you must constantly in my opinion keep Ro rotating things around rotate your exercises around rotate your pieces around sometimes it's not always necessary to get a piece to like Perfection not always necessary to get an exercise to Perfection sometimes it's good enough and maybe you need to discuss this with your piano teacher or you have to decide that for yourself if you're selftaught sometimes it's okay to get to 55% 55% and then like just kind of take a break from it bookmark it try something else learn from that new exercise and then come back to the old exercise uh next time two months from now and then you realize you you have a sense of freshness around it and then piano becomes less sort of like dry and sort of slow so to avoid burnout I want you to start to think and also be really really good at knowing how to rotate around and creating some variety in your practice this one is something a little bit hard to teach I kind of got better at it over time but please think about how to diversify your piano playing diversify your piano practice diversify what you do on the piano to make it interesting sometimes it's focusing on pieces sometimes it's focusing on let's say ear training sometimes focusing on Theory sometimes it's focusing on other genres okay let's say you play classical let's try playing a bit of pop or playing a bit of jazz introduce some new things to your ears and your brain how do you practice piano let me know in the comments I'm very interested to know how our subscribers and our viewers are actually practicing piano when you share you also help other fellow pianists around the world to learn from YouTube hope this has been helpful check out my other videos for more ideas on how to practice piano I'll catch you in the next one [Music] ...
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