How To ORGANIZE Piano Practice (Most Effective Structure)

[@SLOWPIANOPRACTICE]

Thank you so much for this video! No one teaches us how to study, and from the beginning, we think that it's all about repeating and repeating until you memorize whatever you're studying. It's essential to organize practices and set goals. Thanks again

[@Warren_Lee]

My pleasure! Thanks so much for your comment, your feedback is very, very appreciated 🙏🏻

[@thepianoplayer416]

You raised 2 interesting points: coming from a traditional family there would never be a contest between me & my older brother being older and therefore assumed to be wiser. When it comes to family inheritances, the eldest usually get more by default. The second point about planning took me many years to understand. Coming from a non-musical family, nobody around can play an instrument (piano, violin, guitar, etc.) to a high level so there were no role models to follow. Naturally mom & dad had no expectation anybody in the family would be able to play to a high level. Some relatives quit music lessons after 2 years and everybody assumed they don't have musical talent. They'd focus on learning other things instead. A few decades later I picked up piano playing for stress relief. At the time nobody in the family except 1 who is still playing to some extent. The rest took lessons but stopped playing ages ago. I started learning on my own before getting a teacher. In the beginning I had doubts about my assumed lack of musical talents & abilities but soon realized that planning is the key to progress. Many of us would never become a professional performer but on the other hand we can go a lot further when we plan ahead...

[@Warren_Lee]

That’s exactly right. With your mindset, I have no doubt you’ll achieve whatever goals you have with piano 💪🏻

[@thepianoplayer416]

@@Warren_LeeMy parents tend to treat music learning as a talent thing... either you have it or you don't instead of planning & organization.

[@Warren_Lee]

They don’t realize these skills can be taught

[@thepianoplayer416]

@@Warren_Lee My mother was a teacher years ago. Rather old-fashion and believes our successes in life are due to genes than environmental factors including how hard we work. Mom sees music, like art as another pastime unless we're a professional performer which the majority are not. I know some parents think the same way. If their kids are not good in music, they don't the talent for it. Some kids find music practice boring like academic exercises and lose interest which is true. Today many young parents think differently that music needs to be part of education than being just another extracurricular activity. There are scientific studies linking music with improve memory & intelligence some might use the term "Mozart Effect". If a kid can't play a song, get him to try, try again instead of assuming he has no talent and let him quit.

[@EmanBeats]

thank ya so much, I NEED organization, my mind be everywhere

[@Warren_Lee]

Glad to help!

[@aristidebossou]

Best video for this moment in my music life. Thank you a lot

[@Warren_Lee]

My pleasure!

[@susandrakenviller3683]

What i find problematic with setting goals is that when it comes to most things, it's relative. Say my goal is to play Mozart's sonate for two pianos. A goal like i want to be able to play it from memory is quite clear, but what about playing it without mistakes. But what's a mistake? Even if i hit all the keys at the right time, i may feel a passage was a bit stiff or my fingers felt slightly out of control here and there or it wasn't inspired and so on. And if you grow musically you may realize you weren't really able to play it before. I know i overcomplicate it but it does really bother me with setting goals when it comes to pieces. It does work for me for technical assignments and really short piece.

[@Warren_Lee]

To each their own 💪🏻

[@KyleHohn]

Oooooo, new favorite teaching channel

[@Warren_Lee]

Welcome aboard!!

[@Victor001.0]

Very useful stuff and... You look like ONE PUNCH MAN

[@Warren_Lee]

Saitama is my role model 🥚

[@monsieur171]

which opuses do you recommend to build technique at an intermidiate stage?

[@Warren_Lee]

For technique scales and arpeggios are always a good idea. Different tempos (speed) and different ranges (octaves). I’ve always enjoyed practicing etudes and technical exercises. Any Czerny works well. Moszkowski’s Little Etudes are also great.

[@GinaLoveAguilar]

@Warren Lee My piano teacher doesn't believe in practicing scales. So, in 17 years of piano studies, I have never practiced scales, ever. He says if you play enough repertoire by the masters, you get your scale practice playing those. But I feel my technique could use a lot of improvement. What do you think?

[@Warren_Lee]

Personally, I hate dogmatic advice. Teachers who give black and white advice are speaking too much from their own ego. What’s worked for me is trying as many different things as possible, measuring the results and then keeping the most valuable exercises while discarding the rest. Hope this helps and let me know if you have any other questions!

[@Soleidus]

I’m paraphrasing here, but I remember reading either Horowitz or another of his contemporary saying this about scales: “playing scales is pointless, studying scales is priceless” I spend at least an hour a day studying scales. What are the technical issues to playing this scale? What is the best fingering? What is the best hand positioning? You can play them parallel, opposite directions, arpeggios, octaves, etc. There are 48 scales (major, minor and each minor’s melodic and harmonic variants) youd need to go through a lot of repertoire to master all of those scales. So I’d say it’s worth STUDYING, for sure :)

[@Warren_Lee]

Priceless advice mate 👊🏻

[@avyeris]

What do you mean exactly by technique ? Isn’t technique included in the repertoire ? So how do I practice 80% technique ?

[@Warren_Lee]

I think of technique as scales, arpeggios, etudes, exercises, etc.

[@avyeris]

@@Warren_Lee gotchya

[@OneStepToday]

u need to increase sound level a lot, use compression and make it loudest for YT standards

[@Warren_Lee]

How do YOU organize your piano practice?

[@davidmveleedou8919]

Warm up. Chromatic scale hands separate, hands together, contrary motion. Octaves Six Diatonic chords 1major key and its relatives minors. Blues scale Cadences and chord progressions Blues scale Alfred 's all in one piano method (now book 2) Sight reading ( sight reading and harm6ony by Dr Cory Hall) One hour and a half a half after bed. Afternoon: all 12 major scales or harmonic minor scales, another day. Harpagio (one key ). That is one hour. Evening, before bed i enjoy playing hymns. Sorry for my english.

[@davidmveleedou8919]

And for your very important video

[@Warren_Lee]

Your English is excellent, totally understood 🙌🏻 And that’s quite the practice routine!

[@Volidee]

1. Scales, blues scale, arpeggio runs (must get 3 in a row before moving on) 2. Ascending and descending diatonic 7ths 3. Play a lick in all 12 keys. 4. Practice a song 5. Ear training

[@Warren_Lee]

Very geared toward the ear 💪🏻👂🏻

[@petezientz8586]

7 Minutes in and you're still talking about cheeseburgers and salads.

[@Warren_Lee]

What do you have against cheeseburgers and salads?

[@bunnyhollowcrafts]

You missed the point pete!

[@Warren_Lee]

👊🏻

[@HiHEHO389]

Ahahahahahahahahaha i was thinking about this

[@HiHEHO389]

But without any doubts , this is one of the best videos about practicing

[@Fidi987]

Okay, what I don't understand: if you need to tell teenage students how to structure their practice, why don't you start building that with younger students? In my music lessons (recorder and half a year of organ in my childhood, violin and half a year of clarinet and flute) this NEVER came up! 10 years of violin lessons and the teacher NEVER told me how to practice or asked me how I practiced! I stumbled upon a helpful book after some years, but before that, it never even occurred to me to think about how to practice because I assumed practice meant repetition until it magically became right. I had music in school only until grade 6 and also there, it was never discussed how to practice even though one teacher asked all of us who could play an instrument to play something for some minutes once. But not even then did he discuss beforehand how we were supposed to pick our pieces and prepare so everybody did that at home in the way their believed it to be right.

[@Lore_Piano]

Hi, sorry for bothering you. Could you may tell me which book helped you in structuring in a better way your practice ? I'm a piano player and train scales, rythm, arpesggios, octaves etc. As well as a bit of Hanon and Czerny, but i think i still miss something.. Thanks in advance if you reply, and good luck with your practice 🎶😁

[@Warren_Lee]

Sorry for the late reply! I've been writing nonstop on my blog, plenty of productivity advice there: www.rhapsodypianostudio.com/piano-resource.html

[@Lore_Piano]

@@Warren_Lee No worries ! Thank you so much for replying, I love your advices and have improved a lot thanks to the 80/20 method you explained, thank you so much, good luck with your practice ! 😁🎶

[@Warren_Lee]

My pleasure! 🙂

[@derrickulous]

Great video man 👏🏿

[@Warren_Lee]

Thanks very much 👊🏻

[@Warren_Lee]

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[@mza3544]

I'm hook on the story.😅😂

[@Warren_Lee]

Haha thank you! I’ve gotten better, I promise 😆

[@keys6]

I liked this but all the explanation stories was way too much! I struggled to remain...

[@moredatesmorefiber3526]

I love bald asian men!

[@Warren_Lee]

Me too

[@smaOnlineMusicClasses]

U lost me with your boring intro... Please don't waste time at the beginning part of a instructional video...

[@Warren_Lee]

Looking forward to wasting more of your time 👍🏻

[@ZozzyeTube]

You took long 😰 time to get to the point. …

[@Warren_Lee]

Yes I did. And if I re-recorded this TWO YEAR OLD VIDEO I would take less time okay?

[@backtoschool1611]

I agree with spending more time on technique: unfortionately teachers are not going to want here that all day from students. No, its not fun, but it is essential!!

[@Warren_Lee]

Right on! 👊🏻