Do You REALLY Need A Teacher To Learn Piano?

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@charlesfernandez201 3 жыл бұрын

Yes defintely, I would like to see a video about learning resources for piano

@anggunnenohai3870 3 жыл бұрын

Dear our online piano teacher, thank you for always guiding us. This is so encouraging! Thank you for always showing us what we need to see in order to make our views clearer. Have a great day! Stay healthy and happy! 🌻

@DavidMiller-bp7et 2 жыл бұрын

Going through all vids sequentially from the beginning 5-6 months on. Really good for the main considerations re: teacher vs. independent work. Again, the first questions are the most vital. Each individual must provide their own succinct and direct answer. Why am I studying, devoting so much time and effort to piano as opposed to something else? Another instrument, stamp collecting, line dancing....? Then, what I am trying to accomplish, said slightly differently, what specific pieces, repertoire, genre, style do I want to pursue, and perhaps, "why?" Once those questions are clearly answered, it's a matter of resources that will get to your goal, pedagogy, workbooks, arrangements for style and level, effective practice regimens, rhythm-learning how to divide and multiply beats....with that, do I engage an in person teacher vs. self study? I have to say that after engaging 6-7 "teachers" over many years, what they gave me wasn't all that effective, I think, mostly because I was going at their pace and topic, not my own specific need or desire. Through those in person teachers during 7-8 disparate years, there was little or no talk of technique, and least of all close attention to posture which supports and sets up the entire range of playing; this enables the maximum range of expression, which is the only reason for technique in anything, maximum performance. There was always a sense of being judged for how much you accomplished or failed to practice and all; this is counterproductive from the start, a generalization. I've been in the classical repertoire world and now committed to jazz, blues, pop and some rock as more vital for me, 12-15 years of logged study. I find the best technique form to be the same with all repertoires and styles. The basics are the same, how one develops and tweaks them for their purposes is good for them. The landscape of piano music is so broad as to include so many different approaches and goals. Each pathway pursued with diligence is valid for each one. There are so many stories of folks who were, more or less, "self taught," not completely descriptive because they listened to/watched other players and imitated them with their own flavoring and flair, learned from them. With the wealth of online resources available now, there is so much one can work on and up to without an in person teacher. There will always be questions, no matter what level is achieved. A good online forum thread on almost any topic is available on the web. We should be asking each other questions about how we handle certain things. We could be good teachers for each other. We can't be totally dependent on just one teacher. That rubs most "teachers" the wrong way but it the way of now and future with internet communications. How will one vet a teacher in person? Take a few lessons to see if it works out with a bunch. Doesn't sound very doable, given the human ego. But it is online. There are some very good teachers online. If you are following Craig, you have a teacher, you are learning from a good teacher who learned his artistic craft the hard way-remediating what was weak when he encountered a good teacher, of which there are not that many. More possible than ever to work online, I have now adopted it as main source for most everything. I have my questions or challenges and seek answers online, I work at it till I find it. Complex rhythms,? what is the rag style part of marked "Ragtime swing"....? Challenge elements that come up in the music, new stuff for me. Big and important topic-thanks to all contributors of good will.

@daniloabata9751 3 жыл бұрын

Very useful learning and information about piano playing

@PIANO_LAB 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

@anggunnenohai3870 3 жыл бұрын

I neeeed it!! 🌻🌻🌻

@DavidMiller-bp7et 2 жыл бұрын

I have now watched just about all of your videos, many more than once. As one with some years of experience in music, I can name many celebrated musicians, who were labeled "self-taught." They are in the tiny minority. And, just the reality that they are recognized, doesn't necessarily mean that they are the best players, with a technique that allows them to play what they want as they want. You question is "key" so to speak, "What do I want to do, in what will be an extensive and ongoing investment, what do I hope to get out of it? One must clearly answer that for themselves, and perhaps adjust the vision along their pathway. I was classically trained as a vocalist in the University academy, with piano as a very distant 2nd instrument, though I was fascinated by the piano by age 8 and wanted to play, derailed by a bunch of life stuff. When I entered college, I was not good enough to study piano with students who were already advanced, the product of 10-15 years prior work. I had a voice, aptitude and musical sensibility, achieved quite well in vocal music. Still, always wished my piano studies had been more continuous. Loved the instrument. Through the years I have racked up about 10-15 years of what could be measured as continuous, formal lessons with physical teachers, work on my own, class piano, with the past 5 years being solid everyday work of 3-6 hours per day. I discovered that eventually, the previous training that I was relying on was insufficient to get me past the moveable line between late intermediate and advanced, though I learn many pieces which are majority advanced arrangements. They take me longer, the intermediate levels are faster learned. I don't need incentive, I need incentives to move away from the keyboard for breaks or other tasks, something I have started doing as I start to recognize brain fatigue and uncooperative body. I told the story elsewhere but I injured my hip rather noticeably by bad postures of all manner, sciatic and left butt/hip muscular pain which became distracting to my focus + the poor techniques of wrist twisting, hand and finger stretching, which caused a lot of tension in parts and stressed me out mentally. About 3-4 months ago, I decided to take stock of my piano technique and posture from the ground up. Went to PT which has stretched and strengthened the hip and core which is vital to good playing and stamina. It takes considerable strength and energy to sit and wang away at the keyboard for hours on end; don't neglect core strength as part of the picture. If you don't have enough, everything falls apart in every direction. Poor progress or outright injury will result. I envisioned my technique as beginning with proper posture, slightly different for each individual, but the general considerations are the same. I figured out I was sitting too low and too close to the keyboard. I got an old fashioned swivel piano stool. Our little town has very few/no viable piano teaching resources, I can't afford them if they were here and I had been misled as to much technique by my former personal teachers, despite their shining resumes I try to do my diligence. I tried to piece together what I remembered, still had some of their fingerings in my books, but I came up against a level that I could not get through for some reason other than diligent, motivated practice for hours a day over years. I went online and found a few really good resources about piano posture and wondered if some online technique tutorials might benefit what ailed me. I went over 12-20 method tutorials by people who claim to be experts and mavens, most left me a little cool. They were often good players but something about their teachings left with questions overall and specific. Most were either one or another manner of weird, condescending, or mostly showing off what they could do and expected you to do the same. Generally, it was a search less than satisfying. I sensed the T teaching school had merit but many of the practitioners were not that approachable, quite formal, from a much more advanced world. And as doctrinaire about the "school" as a religious cult. Many meant well but did not resonate with me personally. As one of the many choices, Craig's platform was one I warmed up to over time, made the sale for me, overcame my inherited skepticism of teaching "experts" in all fields. I have been implementing his technique lessons in my playing as one starting as a baby, imagining that I had not training at all, completely abandoned much of what I had learned about piano technique. In the past 2 months my progress has been more than satisfactory to undersell my experience. I took in Craig's tutorials and read every comment about every one, many more than once or twice as questions in the playing come up. I still have some issues but Craig has answered about 95% of them. Some the remaining questions I can figure out on common sense to about 98% satisfaction. I am a perfectionist, probably more than most. I do have a musical training background, that helps generally. My technique is being made over in weeks and months rather than years. I am elated with my progress and support Craig's efforts at his Piano Lab platform. I have looked at a lot of other online teachers and he seems to me the best overall. Nice touches with the subtle humor, Craig. Loved the neck vibrator and Craig teaching Craig. Most of my work in learning is with the metronome; I don't play without it until the piece is pretty well seated in muscle memory, and even then go back to it if I sense "too much rubato." The issue/question for this video tutorial is about the need for a teacher to learn piano.? If you are following these videos you are "using" a piano teacher to help the process, in this case, CW, who has made considerable strides in the coming mode of disciplines: online instruction. To learn on your own is somewhat of a misleading idea because one gets what one does from some source, even other players. Some, like Errol Garner and Art Tatum, have some natural gift that allows them to accomplish what they have done, another subject, which applies, based on 75 years of observation, to less than 1% of all people. We all have gifts, not always the same ones. Last word in this Russian novel: One reason I was frustrated in my search for online instruction is the specializations people pursue and the techniques which support it without speaking to others. They specialize in "classical" repertoire and technique, gear their teaching to only that small percentage of special interest. I switched all my piano interest to arranged jazz, blues, pop, show tunes and some rock, often arranged for jazz styling about 5 years ago. Most of the jazz tutorials I notice are about some aspect of improvising, which is not all jazz by a long shot and the one in which I have least interest; I also don't have a natural gift for it. What I like about Craig's approach is that his technique will benefit and facilitate every manner of music out there: every repertoire, every style, every genre, every level from 1st day beginner to advanced. When I was in music school my theory prof for 2 years running, 6 terms, would enter the classroom first day and do the same spiel. He would walk over to the 7 foot covered grand and say, "This massive piano represents music, but only a small portion of it. This quarter we will consider about 1/8th of a square inch of what music is about." The same statement could be made about the piano in itself. I think online teachers, like most in person teachers who want to hold onto their diverse stable of piano students should embrace more styles and genres, than just one like classical from the academic classroom. Much great jazz and players emerged from sleazy bars and houses of ill repute. Many of the players who emerged from the Mississippi Delta in the 1920s and 30s had no formal training in music, they succeeded for other reasons than formal training. Remotely possible, but those extreme conditions are not at all normal. This means demonstrating different styles of musical taste and some of the issues more unique to that style. I'm OK with Craig's examples because I'm in it for the technique, don't plan to spend my energy on the dusty bustys but he may benefit from widening his potential circle of followers. The technique is inclusive, the general approach and exampling, perhaps, might be improved by wider inclusion. More numbers, more followers, all learning and having fun together, respecting each other's art. Just a suggestion. At any rate, I am learning and progressing faster than at any skein in my piano study history. Craig's Piano Lab, is the best forum I have seen online for that purpose. He is a very fine teacher, the best in my experience. Thank you, Craig and all commenting contributors, from whom I also learn. You are helping the international Piano Nation. Might as well, "From the Left Coast of Oregon," Dave M

@thekogrimmer527 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! thank you :D

@jessicastevens6102 3 жыл бұрын

Question #6: will you be able to hold yourself accountable for your practice / pushing yourself to learn new skills, or would it be better to have an outside source providing accountability? No matter how much someone loves and wants to learn the piano, sometimes it's hard to make yourself practice -- or more importantly, make yourself *improve* -- without a little extra incentive (like not wanting to be embarrassed at your lessons!)

@DavidMiller-bp7et 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent question. It seems to me we should more try to be inspired to improve rather than "make ourselves do it, improve." Practice issue is a big one depending on situation and priorities. "Hold ourselves accountable," a seminal issue in all human endeavors.