Master Piano Pieces Faster With This Simple Method
And get to your desired outcome!
Are you searching for the fastest way to learn a piano piece? Look no further. In this VIDEO POST, we'll explore an effective, yet most simple method to help you master piano pieces faster than ever before.
The Common Practice Pitfall: Repeating Mistakes
Many piano learners fall into the trap of trial and error when attempting to learn a new piece. This approach, often referred to as the Trial-Error-Method, can hinder progress rather than facilitate it. By repeatedly playing through a piece and allowing mistakes to accumulate, learners risk ingraining incorrect notes and habits into their muscle memory.
Introducing the Fastest Way to Learn a Piano Piece: Tolerating No Mistakes
In my teaching I urge students a very different approach: tolerating no mistakes. The key to this method lies in first careful reading of the score, then adjusting the tempo in which you play the notes first time and working in smaller divisions. Instead of mindlessly playing through the entire piece and accepting errors, let's emphasize the importance of meticulous, error-free practice from the outset.
Practical Application with "Für Elise" by Beethoven
To demonstrate this method, I took this most famous piece "Für Elise" by Beethoven as an example. Step by step, I show you how a practice routine could look like if disciplined, focusing on correct fingerings and gradual expansion of sections without tolerating errors. Go to the VIDEO and see for yourself.
Consistency is Key: Programming Correct Notes and Rhythm
A fundamental aspect of this method is consistency. By giving your fingers the exact same instructions repeatedly, you program the correct notes and rhythm into your muscle memory. This ensures that every practice session contributes to steady progress, leading to mastery of the piece in record time.
Embracing the Journey: From Beginner to Advanced
Whether you're a beginner pianist or an experienced player, this simple method proves to be invaluable for an efficient practice routine. While experienced players may experiment and intentionally let mistakes happen to find the weak spots and creative solutions to the different aspects of piano playing, beginners are encouraged to follow precise instructions to avoid confusion and accelerate their learning curve. Because experimentation in piano practice requires the necessary experience in order to be able to judge what works and what doesn't, what is right and what must be avoided.
Unlock Your Piano Potential
Are you ready to revolutionize your piano practice sessions and unlock your full potential? By implementing this simple yet powerful method, you can bid farewell to frustration and hello to rapid progress and mastery of piano pieces.
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You're trying to learn that piece
that you like and it takes
you weeks or even months before
you finally have those notes
somehow in the fingers.
And probably you are doing some
practicing mistake that most beginners do
and that is repeating mistakes.
Trial-Error-Method I call that.
So you're playing, playing, playing until
you make a wrong note and
you start over again and again
and again.
And actually what you're doing is
programming the wrong notes, the mistakes.
In this video I'm going to
show you a real strategy which,
as simple as it sounds and
as it is actually, many beginners
don't do this and therefore wasting
many, many hours and days and weeks.
So the same piece that maybe
takes you a few months to
learn, you can do that in several days
and sometimes even hours
by just applying this simple method.
And that is the method of
tolerating yourself no mistakes.
If you think, "Oh, how is
it possible if you don't know
the piece to play without mistakes?"
It is possible!
You just have to adjust the
tempo of which you play and
you have to learn to work
in divisions.
So let's get to it!
My name is Lars Nelissen,
pianist, teacher and composer.
And on this YouTube channel I
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So for this video I took
the example of a piece that
most beginners like to play
Für Elise by Beethoven.
Et cetera…
You all know the piece.
It starts in this way, later
it gets more difficult, but what
I'm teaching you applies for every piece
you learn, particularly if you're a beginner.
In the end of the video
I'll explain to you why I say this?
Let's first explain to you this
method and how to do, how
to play without mistakes?
Most students who play like:
Something like that, you know.
For me very difficult to imitate
how students play, but you get the point.
Mistakes and repeating them over and
over, trial error.
I suggest that you first read
very clearly what you should do
with the right fingerings.
Okay.
Okay.
That was the right notes.
So you do it a few
times, maybe 10 times.
And again.
Okay.
When it goes good.
Okay.
Here the left hand enters.
This is a minor.
See?
Taken over by the right hand.
This is a minor chord.
So we try to connect left
and right.
Until then, don't continue yet.
Be very disciplined about it and
do it again.
And do this several times until
it starts to feel more comfortable.
Only then you go into the
next section.
You start here where the left
hand enters.
Until there.
Do this again.
See?
I added now two notes.
That's fine.
If that's without mistakes, it's okay.
Do it again.
Okay.
Now I add a little bit,
but I don't start from the
beginning again.
I'm not start from the start
all the time over and over.
So I now go to where
it overlaps a little bit.
So I just played this.
Until there.
So now I start here.
And again.
Okay.
Once again.
Your fingers will tell you they
have their intelligence when they understood.
I see the fingers like they
are a class of with 10
children and you have to instruct
them to do as you wish
and how and to work together.
But they only can do what
they need to do when you instruct them.
Consistent, the right instructions.
If you change your instructions, then
you tell them this and the
next time you tell them a
little bit different, they get confused.
So you actually teach the fingers
then to get confused.
Don't do that.
Give them the exact same information
again and again until the notes
are programmed.
And with the notes, I mean
the notes and the rhythm.
So even if you work in
divisions and take a little pause,
we make sure that in our
mind, every note is on the right beat.
Therefore, it is good to count
from the very start.
Let's do this again.
And now we got comfortable.
Now we try to play it
a little bit longer.
Okay, maybe that will be difficult
to play like this the first time.
So you take little breaks, little
pauses.
Pause, wait.
Wait and prepare.
Wait and prepare, etc.
Do this again.
Wait and prepare.
Wait and prepare.
Wait and prepare, etc.
You do this until you start
to feel comfortable.
Then you try to just continue
playing.
Maybe you do that, but you
make it a little bit slower
so that you have enough time
to think in advance what comes.
Okay, that works.
And then you can repeat that
and then slowly, gradually go with
the tempo to where you want
to go.
If you walk like this in
a very disciplined manner, you will
see that even though it feels
not like that in the beginning
in the start, but eventually we
learn the piece fast.
We don't get bored.
We keep excited about it.
We learn more repertoire because eventually,
the more pieces you're able to
learn, the more experience you will
get at the piano, and the
more easy it will go.
Now I told you in the
beginning that for very experienced players,
we not always practice like that.
We practice like that, but first
we experiment.
We make mistakes.
We are aware of the mistakes.
We correct them.
We find solutions and we experiment
again.
Sometimes I play pieces even faster
than they have to be.
And I let mistakes happen on
purpose to see where the weak
points, the weak spots, and then
I go into work and polish
them and eliminate those mistakes in
a very conscious, organized manner.
Because eventually, if we want to
make progress, we have to experiment.
But when you are a beginner,
it's very risky to do and
I don't recommend it.
And I would just follow the
teacher's fingerings and instructions because when
you experiment, you need to have
the experience to know and judge
what's right and what's not right.
And try out this method.
I'm sure it will help you.
And leave in the comments how
that works for you.
I'm very curious to hear about
that.
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