How effective is your piano practice? What about your students’ practice? Practising practice during the lesson and teaching our students how to practise is so important. Most of their progress will happen during the week, when we’re not there to correct or guide them. I’m so delighted to be bringing you this interview today with…
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Beginner’s Piano Practice Feedback Loop
Practice is all about self-assessment. We need to keep asking ourselves questions to get to the route cause of issues we’re having in our pieces. This can be a difficult process for our young students to master, how do we stop them mindlessly repeating their pieces and get them to really focus on making progress?…
5 Elements of Efficient Piano Practice
Let’s start by figuring out what “practice” really means. Practicing the piano is not just playing the piano. There is a difference, and understanding that difference is essential to making great progress. Let’s imagine you’re part of a basketball team. Your team meets once a week for two hours of “practice”. You might begin each…
Piano Practise 101 – A Guide for New Piano Parents
Piano teachers end up talking (or possibly nagging) about practise all the time. However, I don’t think it is explained often enough what we mean by practise. It doesn’t just mean play piano for x amount of time, or play a certain thing X number of times. Practicing is about improving our playing skill in…