Piano Basics: How to start learning a new piece.

As the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung Heidelberger described, “Shijun Wang is a fascinating, serious and sensitive musician” As a solo pianist and orchestral soloist, Shijun Wang has performed in California, New York, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia, Utah, Connecticut, New Jersey, Indiana, Idaho, as well as Germany, Spain, France, Norway, China, Mexico, and Japan. Under one of the most prestigious artists management, 100 arte, he plays concerts in most of the major cities in China each summer, and he also gave masterclasses, lectures, and recitals in more than half of the major Chinese conservatories include Shenyang Conservatory, Xi’an Conservatory, Harbin Conservatory, Sichuan Conservatory and Jilin College of Arts. He was appointed as the youngest ever visiting professor of Xi’an Conservatory where he would give concerts and masterclasses for two months each summer. He serves as piano faculty in the East/West International Piano Festival in South Korea and piano faculty at The Puigcerda Music Festival in Spain each summer.
Dr. Wang currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of Piano at Weber State University. He received the Bachelor of Music and Masters of Music degrees at The Juilliard School studied with Oxana Yablonskaya and Joseph Kalichstein and a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at Eastman school of music studied with Nelita True. His mentors have included Thomas Schumacher, Dan-Wen Wei, Alfred Brendel, Emanuel Ax, and Richard Goode.

[@boopteehee6663]

All of your piano basics lessons have been extremely helpful, Mr Wang, and I am so happy that you are able to share your knowledge

[@ShijunWangPianoChannel]

Thank you

[@gorbeenatter]

I think a great deal of practice progress is mindset. I always break the pieces down in to small pearls maybe 2 bars/ measures or phrase and spend maybe 10/5/3/2 or 1mins running through these small snippets in a variety of ways ie hands separate together in rhythms blocks etc. hyper focusing on small amounts at a time allows me to absorb much more detail early on and polish these pearls so they shine bright. I then string these pearls together to form the whole necklace for me I find this the most efficient way to begin a piece in the first few weeks I use a strict timer and highlight the score snippets in alternating highlighted colours

[@betelgeuseaml]

I Really appreciate much your advice in all your videos, thanks a lot.

[@Matti_Mattsen]

Very nice, i just got a new piece from my teacher (Schumann op.124 no.5), this will be helpful, thanks!

[@matthewmccarthy9293]

Same here except I'm doing Mendelssohn Op.19 No.3, I'm sure it will help the both of us!

[@adamchaupiano]

Thank you so much for the lesson, Dr. Wang

[@drew7257]

I always enjoy listening to your instructional videos.

[@davidleyland3170]

Very enlightening. Thank you.

[@rothschildianum]

Another good one... I like this kind of video. This video shares your experiences which are very valuable!

[@ShijunWangPianoChannel]

Thank you

[@user-jw2ko7hw5q]

Last Tip is the secret to learn new pieces Quickly!

[@janmoritzpiano9547]

Your Videos are Really Useful. I am currently preparing a Competition Repertoire, Maybe you could share a thought on it: Bach Prélude and fugue C-Minor (WtC 1) Chopin Etude in C-Minor (Op 10 no 12) Chopin Ballade F major op 38 I would be really grateful If you could give me some feedback what you think about it. Greetings!

[@ShijunWangPianoChannel]

I think that’s a great list, not classical sonatas?

[@mingming7047]

非常希望老师能举些例子讲讲高级踏板技术。

[@rrrrrrtt1]

You need a more sensitive microphone. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@markchavez738]

It sounds completely fine to me.

[@zwang205]

当我老师吧

[@ShijunWangPianoChannel]

好呀！来吧