How to Finish Your Piano Pieces to Your Highest Standard Yet (in 3 Simple Steps)

[@craigdouglas9979]

This video is quiet profound. Everything anyone needs to know to learn piano (maybe anything) is clearly and concisely stated here. Your experience and superior understanding of what you are doing just SHINES through. Thank you!

[@valgca]

I did follow your suggestion to record yourself and I was amazed at the hesitations that I was not aware of at all.

[@portmead21]

Yes I really enjoy your videos they are really really helpful. Ive getting a lot of good practice tips and information thank you. You are so right if you just play through the harder bits don't get any easier. But if you concentrate on the difficult parts they become your favourite bits. That's what happens to me anyway.

[@LeCheileMusic]

Yes! I often tell students who are struggling with a particular passage that it will become their favourite part once they master it 😁

[@n1iwr]

Could u have another “play ur piece 100 x this month event??!!! I really enjoy these challenges and find it helpful to see the progress people make including myself!! And it’s no fun just doing it myself!!! lol!! Also, could u play one of ur favorite pieces for us!!! I love listening to u play!! U play so lovely. Or maybe could u take us on a practicing journey as u learn a piece, showing us short videos as u progress and then play thru the whole piece for us??? Thanks!! I love ur style of playing & teaching!! Keep up the good work!! Sandy from Boston- early intermediate player

[@LeCheileMusic]

Hi Sandy, absolutely - I run one every month on Facebook 😊 I post the link to the next one at the end of each month so you can keep going. You can find the June 2024 page here (though it’s not active yet so it’ll be very quiet in there till next week!): facebook.com/groups/june2024100xchallenge

[@unclemick-synths]

My difficulty is accuracy so I am enjoying your 100x challenge because I add a rule of accuracy-only until the 100 are done, then I get out the metronome and start thinking about tempo.

[@iEmmV]

What a great teacher you are, thanks for this video!

[@angelaalves9530]

I know this and I've been trying to build this into my practice (somewhat successfully the last few months) but I LOVE - IDENTIFY, ISOLATE, ELIMINATE! That's really a great way to grasp on to the practical concept to focus and drill down and actually DO IT!

[@sharonbaldwin8869]

Thank you for this video. I use your "bulletproof practice" strategies and now this is another practice technique to add to that. Before watching your videos, I thought playing through was practicing. You have been a tremendous help...thanks again!

[@barbaraives4962]

Thank you for the many practical examples of the kinds of problems we may encounter. Sometimes it's hard to Name it, much less Tame it, but this helps!

[@karina123]

Ich liebe alle deine Videos. Sie sind immer so lehrreich und motivierend.Danke dir. ❤

[@LeCheileMusic]

Ich freue mich so sehr das zu hören, danke! 🥰

[@gollypeeters4824]

enjoy this video ? Goodness me... this is just about the soundest advice one can get !!! Thank you !

[@Hajjoy]

No nonsense and very helpful - thanks very much. Now off to practice with purpose 🎹

[@Apfelkaninchen]

I don't know if this helps anyone but I noticed with particularly difficult parts that I can't learn the hugr jump with the difficult fast chords in just one day. it just becomes quicker and easier when I practice it intensely in an isolated way and then have a good night's sleep, then practice again, have a good night's sleep, rinse and repeat until it is up to the correct spead and feels like second nature which of course takes time. I just used to start off having that idea that I have to finish the difficult spot in one go, which is not possible for certain things at some point, I would argue. It needed me 24 years to learn that lesson and before I learned that I kept being frustrated with myself and felt always inadequate but then again I was always learning pieces that were slightly out of my comfort zone and just a tad too difficult to push myself.

[@LeCheileMusic]

Absolutely - and it can seem like I’ll never master whatever manoeuvre I’m trying to achieve and then one day it’s just there! 😊

[@Apfelkaninchen]

@@LeCheileMusic Yes, definitely. That actually describes my experience very well where I tried to learn the Imperial March by John Williams. I was confused by the rhythm in the left hand and the fast slightly complicated chords in the right hand, let alone putting it all together. It simply looked like a jungle for 2 weeks and suddenly it clicked and I thought: "what were you even fretting about?" the worst part was over and ever since it was okay. but I think, the main thing is just to try for one more day before admitting defeat. it takes time to build neurons and muscles. my arms hurt like after a workout for weeks and now they are equipped to play such a piece. and even after "finishing" the piece and fully assimilating it, I always feel that it "ripens" after months and I discover that I can play the piece even easier and with more layers. Anything of quality takes time and hard work. even after a decade I still polish the pieces I already know in and out by heart.

[@joey6353]

Helpful video

[@homamellersh8446]

Thanks Leah, always there with great technical advice 👍👍

[@AllisonOverton-k6r]

Another excellent video! Thank you.

[@guykoppi2525]

Excellent advice, as always! I’ll put it to work in the morning.

[@karenconnell3290]

Thank you Leah.

[@velcroman11]

“Your pre amble”. Oh so true.

[@jameshasbeenjammin]

Just found your channel. Was a great video. I'll subscribe.

[@emaldonadog]

Helpful video. As usual in yours! Thank you very much.

[@lshwadchuck5643]

Thanks for telling the deep truth. I suspect we older adult beginners enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect and can revel in short good bits. But it really sucks that many of us spend years without having a piece we can reliably play well with someone else in the room. I'm hoping to properly finish the piece I'm learning THIS TIME. I recorded a play-through yesterday. Too fast, too many hesitations. I need to play all the pairs of bars where there's a difficult transition and repeat them slowly, many times. I've studied and marked up the page, so the mystery is gone. I know it isn't too hard for my level. Is there an acquired skill of reading ahead a few beats with one eye?

[@LeCheileMusic]

You’re very welcome! For reading ahead, I recommend learning to read intervals so that you can look at groups of notes and understand the patterns and shape of the music - more info here: The Piano Sight Reading Tricks That Make Reading Music 100% Easier kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXKZf5aYiK-jfrc

[@lshwadchuck5643]

@@LeCheileMusicThanks for the recommendation. I haven't been clear. After we've understood and learned all the shapes and patterns, I'm talking about hesitations at transitions, big pattern shifts between bars, the tricky bits we drill during practice. I suppose it's what separates the sheep from the goats. Anyway I really love your suggestion that we older beginners would do better to master 100 easy pieces than a single famously complex showpiece.

[@bettyangwenyi1797]

I sub'ed this channel ages ago and clicked "all" for notifications of all new videos but didn't receive a peep in my feed, let alone a notification. Hmm.

[@LeCheileMusic]

I don’t get around to posting very often but I’m planning a new video soon 😊

[@Aerospace_Education]

Please get out of my head. :) This is my biggest issue. I get to about 80%-90% but just don't feel I do a good enough job getting that last bit to be able to perform comfortably.

[@susandunlap3409]

Yes, feel like many pieces just get to 85 to 90 percent.

[@LeCheileMusic]

Hope this video gives you some ideas for getting to 95-100%! 😁

[@susandunlap3409]

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[@terrybaldwin8883]

I don’t mean no harm or trying to be mean but you talk to fast or maybe it’s just me but I cannot understand what you are saying.

[@LeCheileMusic]

Hi Terry, you’re right, I do talk fast! If you look for the settings icon on the video (it looks like a little cog wheel and will be either in the top or bottom right corner) you can adjust the speed to slow me down. It might also be useful to turn on the subtitles. Thanks for your patience! 😊

[@pma475]

I love how you nail every problem on its head, Leah 🩵