Oh my god this is fantastic , you are the best . You emphasize on memory that mean it is in no way ,not so smart people can play music. I have a great respect for pianist .
Czerny books contain no text explanation, or only a small quite general amount at the beginning written by someone else. So I (beginner level) or anyone else today (teachers included) cannot ever know for sure what Czerny's original purpose of each exercise really was.
Love it. Thanks. I’m going to go practice exactly what you said. “Pet the kitty”. I’m like bull in a china factory, but determined to play softly. Very technical work and great explanation. Thank you Ashlee.
Great video! The challenges for both aural and visual memory I haven't tried before... I think one of the biggest detrimental to only have muscle memory is that when you play on a different piano with a drastically different feel your muscle memory is not reliable. I also find that our ability to memorize is positively effected by our level of inspiration we have towards memorizing a piece and the amount of sleep we had the day before!
Hi everybody! I teach piano in Oregon. Great to finally see somebody addressing the key colors and also “the opposites.” ❤️🎹❤️ Like you said, D flat/D … E flat/E… A flat /A…B/B flat are opposite colors. -💥💥 F and F# are also opposite colors. (In my studio I refer to it as F# instead of G flat in chord studies) We love calling this “the law of the opposites!” OH!!! C and G have no opposites. Those two chords just match each other! 🥳❤️ Another interesting thing: the key colors of root and the 5th also match in every single key except for B-flat and B, which are opposites. My students love filling out pentascale and chord charts, filling in the circles with black or leaving them white. Great for visual learners So if you can’t find your chord quickly, at least hit the fifth and it will still sound great!
Huh. That was really easy to pick up. It seems intimidating at first, but with a little practice, repetition, and an understanding of the basic structure of a chord it really makes the keyboard less scary to play around with.
yea, you ain't kidding about taking breaks. i find 15 min is my limit. I practice for 15 min, then i get up and walk around for 5 min. for me it makes all the difference.
@@AshleeYoungMusicStudio nice, in my playing I barely lift the fingers for the attack on keys, much more to use the weights of the forearm, who for me is working. This is wrong?
To remember the whole major scale, could you also describe it as “whole whole half whole whole whole half”, or would there be an issue down the line with that?
"You get comfortable being uncomfortable." Ok, this is my daily food for thought today. When I play an assigned piece next to my teacher, I make all sorts of mistakes I usually don't when playing at home alone. Same even when only one person, say, my brother or sister is hearing me play at my place. I get nervous and anxious.😢 I will have to practice to be comfortable being uncomfortable. Lol. Other tips are equally great. That flexibility of your wrist part and that giving mindless tempo changes won't help you express musicallity are excellent practical advice. I learn everyday. Thanks a lot Ashlee again for sharing your valuable insights.
I've been struggling with the first movement of a sonatina (with an Alberti Bass) for several weeks. I just watched you Alberti Bass and then this video. I am hopeful that it will improve me enough to at least accurately and rhythmically play the first 2 pages in 5 days for a small group where we share what we are playing. Thank you for the tips. I needed all of them and really appreciate that you did this for us.
This works. I say this from my experience. As an adult beginner, I practice before I go to work and before I go to bed. Well, not 10 times but almost. When I practice, I use full concentration to accurately execute the problem passages. Next morning when I practice, I instantly feel where to go on the keyboard, and that is 100% correct. One more thing I like to add here is the power of our subconscious playing. When I practice before going to sleep, I use even more dedication to play the correct notes. Then when you sleep, your subconscious helps you memorise and reinforce the moves. Well, at least that's me. Thanks Ashlee again for helping us in this rewarding journey of learning to play the piano.
Totally agree. Talking especially about the second you mentioned, when I talk to my fellow adult learners, I see most of them equate proficiency to fastness. Obviously, there are pieces and passages where you need go fast. But that, I believe, does serve the purpose of the music. That is not fastness for fastness itself. In that sense, we adult beginners can safely ignore the idea that being fast is being good. Yes, the language example you used in a previous vid, being an ESL speaker of English, I try to speak accurately and correctly, although it makes me slow. That sounds much better than speaking unintelligible English fast. Lol Thanks again for this extremely informative and helpful video!
As a non-native speaker of the English language, I can relate to your analogy. Yes, music, the score in this context is like a language, and we need to read it as a whole where every note is in relation to another. We don't read "To be or not be", T, O, B, E..." Discovered your channel last night, and you have a new subscriber. Thanks for sharing your insights!
It's amazing that you can speak while talking. You said in other videos how important it is to learn how to count while playing, I've been trying it out, it is so hard...
Thanks! This is a really cool video! I think at this stage I know all the chords from the theory, rather how to read the chords quickly from the music sheet, and thus practice, which is super important for sight reading... if you have any suggestions on how to train sightreading chords, I am interested. Thank you for your hard work on this channel!! :D
