How to Practice the Piano
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How to Practice the Piano
Hi I'm Tony Newton for Expert Village and we are going to talk about establishing a practice for learning to play the piano. Establishing a practice routine for learning to play the piano. Establishing a practice routine is paramount if you want to succeed in playing the piano cause it is a thing that you need to do regularly and intensely to get anywhere. I means you can practice once every two weeks but you are progress would definitely slow down. Okay let's talk about so I would say at least a half a hour everybody could afford a half of hour 3 times a week and that would be a way to start and then you could add 15 minutes to that as you go along until you work your self up to 2-3 hours depending if you want to become a professional or if you just want it to be a hobby so that plays good music. Or if you just want to impervious and write songs. Now in the process of practicing there are 3 things that are very important that is that you need to concentrate on in that is technique, musicianship and repertoire. Okay technique, musicianship and repertoire. Technique is how you are actually using your hands, your body, and your wrist and all of that right. Musicianship is knowing what you are playing understanding what you are playing. If you are playing a C chord then you know you are playing a C chord if you are playing a C scale then you know that you are playing a C scale. That means musicianship means understanding technically, musically, what you are doing. Repertoire of course is always practice a song or a some type of whole song that you can play, even if it is just chords or whatever but then you add new songs every time and you sit down to play it. These 3 things techniques, musicianship and repertoire always keep these things in mind when you are establishing your practicing routine and the next part of that is the discipline to apply those. Don't forget cause if you only study technique and repertoire then you going to miss out in musicianship and somebody is going to ask you what you are playing and you don't know. Or if you only study musicianship and you play the songs then your technique won't grow so as long as you are aware of these 3 facts of your progress and if you are playing then you would always be able to involve in your creativity and technique.
Hi I'm Tony Newton for Expert Village and we are going to talk about establishing a practice for learning to play the piano. Establishing a practice routine for learning to play the piano. Establishing a practice routine is paramount if you want to succeed in playing the piano cause it is a thing that you need to do regularly and intensely to get anywhere. I means you can practice once every two weeks but you are progress would definitely slow down. Okay let's talk about so I would say at least a half a hour everybody could afford a half of hour 3 times a week and that would be a way to start and then you could add 15 minutes to that as you go along until you work your self up to 2-3 hours depending if you want to become a professional or if you just want it to be a hobby so that plays good music. Or if you just want to impervious and write songs. Now in the process of practicing there are 3 things that are very important that is that you need to concentrate on in that is technique, musicianship and repertoire. Okay technique, musicianship and repertoire. Technique is how you are actually using your hands, your body, and your wrist and all of that right. Musicianship is knowing what you are playing understanding what you are playing. If you are playing a C chord then you know you are playing a C chord if you are playing a C scale then you know that you are playing a C scale. That means musicianship means understanding technically, musically, what you are doing. Repertoire of course is always practice a song or a some type of whole song that you can play, even if it is just chords or whatever but then you add new songs every time and you sit down to play it. These 3 things techniques, musicianship and repertoire always keep these things in mind when you are establishing your practicing routine and the next part of that is the discipline to apply those. Don't forget cause if you only study technique and repertoire then you going to miss out in musicianship and somebody is going to ask you what you are playing and you don't know. Or if you only study musicianship and you play the songs then your technique won't grow so as long as you are aware of these 3 facts of your progress and if you are playing then you would always be able to involve in your creativity and technique.
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Expert: Tony Newton is a world renowned musician who began his professional career on the piano at the tender age of thirteen & has performed on over 25 million selling Gold recordings. Read More
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