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Thursday, 25 August 2011

Piano Practice Made Easy

By Andy Penbram


To learn piano or keyboards can be a little depressing when you concentrate on your playing for days on end to find that you do not appear to be getting anywhere. The reason the majority students give up the piano, particularly in children is a highly regarded lack of advancement. Here are a handfull of tips to help you with your own personal practice sessions which ought to help you to progress faster.

Prepare your practice time - Build a little routine for your practice periods. The important points of the routine will be different from individual to individual depending on the of music they're learning how to play.

The first move to make when you sit down to practice is to warm up. A excellent way to try this is by practicing your scales for a bit, this may loosen your fingers and in the long run will help you to learn pieces in various keys.

As soon as you have finished the warmup you may then go on to working on your pieces. You ought to know after the first few times of practicing a new piece where the difficult sections are. Start with these sections just before you try to play the whole piece. Play the section with separate hands. Keep swapping hands though so as not to let the other hand get cold. Now play the troublesome passage with both hands together.

You are now able to try the whole piece from start to finish with a confidence that you will be more comfortable when it comes to the tough parts.

Always utilize a metronome when you play your scales and arpeggios and use it for your pieces too if they permit it. Set the metronome to a slower speed than is necessary initially which should help you to play the piece easily. Over the space of 1 or 2 days you can slowly start to increment the tempo of the metronome until you are playing it at speed. You could even benefit from playing the piece more than it should be simply to get your fingers really working and used to the piece.

You have to find out how to relax whilst you are playing. Relax your fingers, your back and in fact your whole posture. If you're tense whilst you play then you will find it much more difficult to manage your fingers and for your playing to flow. This is kind of like learning to ride a bike or drive an automobile. To begin with there are such a lot of things to recollect and coordinate but at some point it suddenly clicks and it all falls into place.

Daily practice on it's own is not really enough to master the piano properly but a steady and structured practice routine will definitely give you an advantage.




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