Five Great Practice Ideas I learned from my Piano Students

Five Great Practice Ideas I leaed from my Piano Students Sometimes the teacher by the students that the student not the teacher. I hope not too often but today I will give you some good ideas to the practice, which by my piano students over the years: 1 A Colonel in Virginia that I taught for several years, has a maximum of 4 a day, moing and practiced on a electronic keyboard with headphones, so he does not disturb anyone at this time of the moing. "I love the moing," he said, "because it is so quiet and peaceful, and are fresh and in blocks. N. phones ringing, no people walking into the room, no noise at all. I practice for half an hour before breakfast, and then for a half 'hours - first of all I started to show for work. When I go home at night, when I too tired to practice, I do not feel guilty because I have my licks in for the day. And if I have a little 'practice - well, it's a prize! "2 An elementary school teacher in Indiana told me that every piece I have mapped and their implementation in all 12 keys - not written, but at the piano - in his head. He said: "It is not always so hot, the clay, but I find that if I do every day, I can at least from the more difficult keys, and makes it easier for buttons seem real simple. It gives me a perspective that I just do not get it, I played in one key - the key is in. I have leaed that each key has its own feel, and some keys are bright (eg "D" ) and some are soft keys (such as "db") .3. A piano student with a similar idea, the minister of music in a Catholic church, said that one month of the year and to enable them to cope with a single button. Since there are 12 months a year and a 12-key E-flat Major, works perfectly. So in January, has played everything that could be key in C and implemented, something that is not in C, in C. In February, he went to 1 / 2 of the most important step of C # (aka Db enharmonically) and played all over the database and searched for the key piece in the DB, and so forth. With time was the year he had a pretty fair understanding of the 12 major keys. I suggested that he is next year to 12 minor-key, and the following year for the ways and the next year polytonality, etc., etc. - but, as I remember, he decided, just by recycling the 12 major keys because he uses it so much that suggested.4. Another student of the piano has an idea about me and a little 'twisted. I suggested that they, together with the pieces they like to play cassettes and CDs, so that they feel a movement for the title. (I have to do now, when I was a teenager, and that has paid off big time for me!). He took the idea and I tried and liked so much that they started a video of people playing the piano. they arranged her TV and video player, so that it is their plan, while the video was played, and would, together with the pianist on the screen after the hand and arm movements and movements of the fingers and then one for feel the flow of music. (Patteing). Your creativity pays for them - is progressing rapidly. (and by the way, do not believe they are "copying" the person said - and not at all. It 'the same principle, just as Michael Jordan on the way to the basket, or even a Sammy Sosa bat swing -- is only in the right groove your style first.) 5th A physician, I have taught for years the idea of file things that he leaed to play piano over the years. He noted if a particular book or tape or video, discuss how such an argument, and file alphabetically. Then later, when he had the idea, just look at the idea in his file, video or tape or a book, and presto - you can verify that the idea or the concept almost immediately. E 'as a catalog of the library - has been detected so much faster than mirroring through endless books to discover that the idea that there is a long time ago. With the advent of the computer of a person to classify and store ideas like these quickly.Hope This gives you some of your ideas! Duane Shinn is the author of over 500 music books and music educational materials such as DVD, CD, Music - Games for kids, chord charts, musical software, piano lessons and teaching for adults. His immediate piano chord finder software, entitled "How to find piano chord instantly!" It was all over the world. He has advanced degrees from Southe Oregon University and was the founder of Plan Southe Oregon University. He is the author of the popular 101-weeks free online e-mail newsletter titled "Amazing Secrets exciting Piano Chords & Sizzling Chord progressions" are, with over 58,600 subscribers.