THIS Practice Method Will Help You 10x ANY Fast Sections

[@jeffvair62]

I wouldn’t change a thing. The beauty of KZbin is that you can replay sections over and over, or you can slow the video down. Ashlee has a style of presenting information that works well for many people, and believe me-you can trust the information in her videos 100%. She also has the musical chops to back up everything she teaches. I’ve been performing, teaching, and working in music for a long time, and Ashlee delivers the goods. She is trying to convey a great deal of information in a short time, and she is polished and together enough to do it very well, time after time. I’d be thrilled to be able to engage a teacher of her caliber and have her work with me in person if I was dealing with something in music I couldn’t figure out, or if I just needed a critical evaluation of my playing or teaching. This is the next best thing! I don’t know her so I can’t ask her (off the record so to speak), but I also think she is keeping a certain pace while doing the video to help her listeners (watchers😊) engage their brains with the content in the same way that a musical student develops the sense of time and place that is so necessary as a performing musician. Accuracy, musicality, timing, and focus-that is what she is really teaching, and I’m guessing that her video pacing is absolutely purposeful. She is also teaching with a level of intensity because I believe she truly loves what she’s doing, and that impresses me even more.

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Thank you thank you thank you so much for one of the kindest and most thoughtful comments I’ve ever received here. I appreciate you taking the time to write this and for all the lovely things you said. 💜 You are absolutely right that it’s intentional and I’m glad you can see that from a higher level perspective. This comment genuinely made my week and is great to read 🙏 thank you!

[@jeffvair62]

😊😊😊Thanks, Ashlee. I wrote it not just to complement you, but also to hopefully convey to others what I know to be true-that learning piano is a process, a series of steps taken to break an element of learning into a (hopefully) easy to understand routine that is digestible-and the bedrock of the process is to Trust the Methodology, and just as important-to trust the teacher. Trust Ashlee, trust that the method will produce results, and then the learning process comes down to simply putting the effort into doing the work. It all starts with trust, and a belief in the Process.

[@floriszoet458]

Exactly how my teacher instructed me. Good to get a reminder today! I happen to be practicing on a piece that I want to speed up a lot

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Glad to hear it!

[@artsyanaa]

I’m 16 yesterday i just picked up the piano again since i was really little, i have adhd and it’s not easy for me to concentrate or fully engage in what im doing, i recently gave up a passion i thought i had for art but it was forced upon me by others and when i was little i was gifted at singing so i want to become a musician your videos are perfect straight to the point great editing just everything, and i am so upset that you dont have more subs you deserve it

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Thanks so much - I’m glad to hear you’re back at it! This is wonderful!

[@annann4786]

After giving up piano, I started accordion, an I find you videos so helpful in my accordion practice. So thankful. 😘

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Yay!

[@odilegayon]

Thank you for this. Now i remember our choir master tought us this technique to improve the super fast bits in Bach's B minor mass. And thanks to your tutorial, i used this technique on a fast solo i play on the ukulele... and it worked like a charm. I will remember this now.

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Awesome! Glad to hear it!

[@stevenbeer6005]

Really good tutorial! Cheers!

[@reallynotpc]

Well worth ten minutes of my time!

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Awesome!

[@michaelandersson1904]

Thank you!!

[@ericapie]

Love your teaching and your way! Thank you!

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Thank you very much - I appreciate you taking the time to say so :)

[@concordfoods]

Thanks!

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Aw thank you!! You rock!

[@1980subrosa]

Great video. Excelent content! And CONCISE which I thank a lot. (Also, time to call the tuner for that A)

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Yay thanks for saying so! And yes - that a is an eternal struggle 😂

[@timsheffield7464]

Do you teach privately online? If so how is best way to reach you? Thanks.

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

I don't teach 1:1 but I do work with people through my sight reading course and through Casual to Confident Piano Player Program, which includes live classes on Zoom. You can check out the sight reading course here: www.ashleejyoung.com/secretstosightreadingcourse and the Program here: www.ashleejyoung.com/pianomember

[@orchestrain88keys]

Nice tutorial on technique. Thanks! Which composition were you playing in the video?

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Gnomenreigen by Franz Liszt

[@orchestrain88keys]

@@AshleeYoungMusicStudio Thanks!

[@eapeters12]

This is great, thank you! Would you say increasing tempo by 3bpm is the sweet spot? I've been doing about 5bpm increases but wondering if I should scale it back.

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Yes! That does seem to be the sweet spot especially for difficult sections

[@eapeters12]

Thank you!@@AshleeYoungMusicStudio

[@carolyncunningham3232]

Great info and demonstration! I was waiting for the left hand to be incorporated into this practice. Is it only for single line passages (no chords)? The details of incorporating both hands together is tricky for me. Any suggestions?

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

I’d say try it with one hand first… But then once you do that, you’re actually welcome to do this practice method with the left-hand as well, you just line the left-hand up with whatever the right hand is doing.

[@ziegunerweiser]

good morning hon I was thinking after I master the mozart c major sonata - when I grow up my warm up will be replaced by the schubert e flat impromptu you are helping me get there, sometimes I wonder if I ever will

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

You will! Great idea!

[@unebonnevie]

The good news for this measure is the left hand plays the same chord -- life is more manageable 🙂. This is a classic of two against one, that is, two notes on the right hand against one chord on the left hand.

[@jolanlorincz1148]

Opravdu nejdou zprovoznit titulky? Mám je nastavené v češtině, ale bohužel nefungují. 😞

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

So sorry!

[@jolanlorincz1148]

@@AshleeYoungMusicStudioDěkuji moc 🙂

[@petertarsio7168]

Ashlee the person who said you are speaking fast is right in saying as you have a lot to get into a video. Don't be offended as everything is fast and in a hurry these days. Warm regards, Peter.

[@thearm95]

Agree - I think the content delivery speed is spot on!

[@Critique808]

The video is sped up.

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Thank you very much, I appreciate that a lot. I totally agree and I’m thankful for your post!

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Thank you thank you! I really appreciate you!

[@WilliamZhang-v4i]

You talk fast cause your brain is faster😅 Appreciated

[@JeppeKejser]

10x ??? You increased from 60 bpm to 80 bpm in the video - thats only 1.33x faster - how do you progress from 80 bpm to the final speed?

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Keep going beyond 80 until you reach the final speed!

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

Also I’m using 10x as qualitative over time vs quantitative instantly

[@l.w.paradis2108]

I thought that ultimately, you can play all the notes in the passage as fast as your shortest notes at 80 bpm. Isn't that what happens?

[@jolanlorincz1148]

Možná je váš kanál zajímavý, ale bez titulků pro nás, kteří neumíme anglicky, je k ničemu.

[@velcroman11]

The music needs to go fast but your speaking doesn’t need to. Please slow down.

[@daenlatecla3898]

I am happy that someone in internet publishes content that I do not need to 2x. For me, her speed is perfect

[@AshleeYoungMusicStudio]

You can control the speed on the settings of the video 👍🏻

[@alfatube100]

She is a great teacher, but I feel the same, her speech is way too fast..Please don't take it wrong. Just what I felt...

[@sopranogirl13]

Just go up to the button that looks like a flower, choose playback speed, hit 0.75x and the tutorial will be slower. I’m glad she speaks fast, but if you need it slower you can adjust it yourself easily.

[@abitzsong1]

Her speed is perfectly ok why are you so slow?