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• 15/4/2008 - Piano Lesson: Do You Really Want To Learn These Things
Author: Peter Edvinsson
Practice is essential to become a good piano player. As you play the piano and try to progress towards becoming a piano giant it is important to be aware of some traps that will prevent you from reaching your goal.
It is a joyful experience to grow as a pianist and musician if you practice in a sensible way using the experience from a teacher or other sources like books and piano instructional DVD's and more.
The feeling that you are approaching your goals gives satisfaction and a belief in yourself.
What traps am I talking about then?
Learning processes can take you towards your goals but as you practice you might unconciously learn things that are limiting your progress.
I don't think that you want to learn things that will limit your progress and if you will be aware of these thing I know that you will avoid them. Here are some traps:
1. Uncomfortable feelings. There can be reasons for you not being at ease as you practice on your piano like stress or negative feelings regarding your ability to progress.
Maybe you are preparing for a performance, a piano lesson or something else and you feel less prepared than you want or other negative thoughts are disturbing you.
Having these feelings as you play on your piano is not so very good. Why?
These negative feelings tend to be evoked as you play the same piece of music at other occasions. I guess this is not what you want.
It can lead to an aversion towards a certain piece of music for the rest of your life or that you quit playing altogether because of uncomfortable feelings as you play.
2. Muscle tensions. Well, you might play in a very relaxed way but many pianists tend to tense too much as a result of maybe playing faster and on a level above their technical skills.
This is very common among young kids trying to play like their musical heroes while actually being on another level of proficiency.
The important aspect of this is that the actual tension level in your hands and in your body when you practice a specific piano piece tends to be at the same level when you play the same piece of music at a performance.
If you have practiced a piano piece with a high tension level you will most probably find it hard to perform the same composition in a relaxed manner.
3. Making mistakes. Can your practicing lead you away from learning a piece of music? You probably want to become a better piano player by practicing but if you play too fast when learning new passages it is likely that you will make a lot of mistakes.
When learning a passage of music these mistakes will be part of the learning process. The more mistakes you make the harder it will be to play the passage right.
To put it another way, all mistakes accumulate and becomes a disturbance when you try to play the passage right. Instead it will become easier and easier to play the music wrong.
But, don't let this information depress you. This information can be good news if you use it to your advantage!
Here are some tips:
1. Comfortable feelings. Try to practice in an atmosphere of peace and joy. How? By not procrastinating working on you piano lesson homework and by having a positive attitude.
2. Relax. A piano session with practicing and memorizing piano pieces can also be an occasion when you practice relaxation. As you play, try to pay attention to your hands, fingers and the rest of your body using as little force in your playing as possible. This will benefit both your mental and physical health!
3. Make no mistake. At least, not too many. If you practice new piano pieces slowly, with concentration and with correct posture you will be rewarded with learning your homework faster and also feel much better.
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• 15/4/2008 - Piano: Learn To Play Music In Time
Author: Peter Edvinsson
It is a good thing to be on the right place at the right time, is it not? Sometimes we call this ability timing. When you play piano this is a very important skill. The result will be music!
To play the notes at your piano on the right keys and with timing does not mean that your notes will be played with mathematic precision. That would probably not be music.
This is why a metronome will only help you halfway to this goal.
You have to learn timing together with other people and by listening to good musicians.
You learn timing when you learn to react musically upon other musicians playing.
In music there is usually a pulse. To be able to discern this pulse and become a part of this groove is something we can develop. When you have acquired this skill your own playing will contribute to a good end result musically.
Well, how then can you feel this pulse in music?
You can dance or just move to music. When your whole body feels the pulse you are certainly on the right track. How the actual dancing is performed is no big deal, at least not as far as developing your pulse is concerned.
I guess the most important matter is to cultivate the feeling of floating or surfing on the waves of music without any effort.
Another important and effective way to develop timing in your piano playing is to play drums.
I think this would be of great benefit to all musicians. To be able to create rhythmic patterns when drumming will help you a lot as a pianist.
Actually, drums are not necessary! They can be quite expensive as we all know. You can improvise rhytmic patterns on you laps using you own hands. Quite cheap solution, really.
Just one example, try to play eights by alternating between your hands and place the accent in different hands as you play. I feel that this is a very stimulating exercise for my mind. Maybe a form of meditation.
Another way to develop your sense of pulse in your piano playing is to buy a metronome. This is nowadays a very little musical device that will give a 100% even pulse and it will help you learn to play in different tempos.
As it is 100% accurate it is best not you use it all the time you play. Another more sophisticated rhythmic aid is a rhythm machine. Can also be bought as software to your computer and it has nearly unlimited possibilities.
As before mentioned the art of timing is not the same as mathematically perfect piano playing. Well, in some music styles it might be appropriate to play piano in this way.
When I use my recording software and for example take a look at the bass parts I produce I can see on the graphic representation on my computer screen that I often play before or after the beats on my bass guitar.
As you probably know the notes can be quantisized with the help of the software to play exactly "accurate". Well, what mostly happens is that the whole production loses something very important. The music disappears.
I usually play the bass guitar parts either ahead of the beat or a bit laid back to create energy in the music.
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