Thursday, August 25, 2011

Easy Ways To Practice The Piano

By Andy Penbram


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

Organize your practice time - Build a little routine for your practice periods. The main points of the routine will be very different from person to person dependent on the of music they are learning to play.

The first move to make when you sit down to practice is to warm up. A good way to do that is by practicing your scales for a while, this can 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 tough sections are. Commence 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 difficult passage with both hands together.

You now have the ability to try the entire piece from start to end with a belief that you will be more comfortable when it comes to the hard parts.

Always use a metronome when you play your scales and arpeggios and use it for your pieces too if they allow it. Set the metronome to a slower tempo than is required at first which may help you to play the piece effortlessly. Over the space of a few days you can slowly begin to increment The speed of the metronome till you are playing it at speed. You might even benefit from playing the piece more rapidly than it should be solely to get your fingers really working and accustomed 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 its own isn't really enough to learn the piano correctly but a steady and structured practice routine will certainly give you an advantage.




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