Thanks Daniel! I’m preoccupied with other projects at the moment and the amount of time that goes into making these videos doesn’t justify the return 😅
What i find problematic with setting goals is that when it comes to most things, it's relative. Say my goal is to play Mozart's sonate for two pianos. A goal like i want to be able to play it from memory is quite clear, but what about playing it without mistakes. But what's a mistake? Even if i hit all the keys at the right time, i may feel a passage was a bit stiff or my fingers felt slightly out of control here and there or it wasn't inspired and so on. And if you grow musically you may realize you weren't really able to play it before. I know i overcomplicate it but it does really bother me with setting goals when it comes to pieces. It does work for me for technical assignments and really short piece.
You raised 2 interesting points: coming from a traditional family there would never be a contest between me & my older brother being older and therefore assumed to be wiser. When it comes to family inheritances, the eldest usually get more by default. The second point about planning took me many years to understand. Coming from a non-musical family, nobody around can play an instrument (piano, violin, guitar, etc.) to a high level so there were no role models to follow. Naturally mom & dad had no expectation anybody in the family would be able to play to a high level. Some relatives quit music lessons after 2 years and everybody assumed they don't have musical talent. They'd focus on learning other things instead. A few decades later I picked up piano playing for stress relief. At the time nobody in the family except 1 who is still playing to some extent. The rest took lessons but stopped playing ages ago. I started learning on my own before getting a teacher. In the beginning I had doubts about my assumed lack of musical talents & abilities but soon realized that planning is the key to progress. Many of us would never become a professional performer but on the other hand we can go a lot further when we plan ahead...
@@Warren_Lee My mother was a teacher years ago. Rather old-fashion and believes our successes in life are due to genes than environmental factors including how hard we work. Mom sees music, like art as another pastime unless we're a professional performer which the majority are not. I know some parents think the same way. If their kids are not good in music, they don't the talent for it. Some kids find music practice boring like academic exercises and lose interest which is true. Today many young parents think differently that music needs to be part of education than being just another extracurricular activity. There are scientific studies linking music with improve memory & intelligence some might use the term "Mozart Effect". If a kid can't play a song, get him to try, try again instead of assuming he has no talent and let him quit.
FYI, a song is a musical structure with alternation of verse and chorus or (AB)n times. A song is also a musical piece to be played mainly by a singer (chanson, air, lied etc). You can't be seriously taken while calling any piano piece a song. Please stop spreading misconceptions.
I've kind of been using this method over the last week or so trying to learn what most people consider to be an easy piece. But I found that I could play for an hour or two but then I would burn out so every time I started to make too many mistakesI would walk away for another hour or two and then come back. Every time I took one of these breaks I would actually make more progress than if I had just attempted to play through the break.
Thank you, Warren, for your service. I have a need to learn how to write the musical notations and this video will serve in that process. I appreciate your input. Many Blessings... psalmist chad
@Warren Lee My piano teacher doesn't believe in practicing scales. So, in 17 years of piano studies, I have never practiced scales, ever. He says if you play enough repertoire by the masters, you get your scale practice playing those. But I feel my technique could use a lot of improvement. What do you think?
Personally, I hate dogmatic advice. Teachers who give black and white advice are speaking too much from their own ego. What’s worked for me is trying as many different things as possible, measuring the results and then keeping the most valuable exercises while discarding the rest. Hope this helps and let me know if you have any other questions!
I’m paraphrasing here, but I remember reading either Horowitz or another of his contemporary saying this about scales: “playing scales is pointless, studying scales is priceless” I spend at least an hour a day studying scales. What are the technical issues to playing this scale? What is the best fingering? What is the best hand positioning? You can play them parallel, opposite directions, arpeggios, octaves, etc. There are 48 scales (major, minor and each minor’s melodic and harmonic variants) youd need to go through a lot of repertoire to master all of those scales. So I’d say it’s worth STUDYING, for sure :)
Thank you so much for this video! No one teaches us how to study, and from the beginning, we think that it's all about repeating and repeating until you memorize whatever you're studying. It's essential to organize practices and set goals. Thanks again
Thank you Mr. Lee. I found this to be an “A-ha” in learning to play the piano. It’s a fresh take on music and I am eagerly looking forward to your next lesson. 🙋♀️🦩🎹💕
I really appreciate your feedback! Kudos to you for taking the initiative to learn online. Btw, just posted timestamps and pinned resources in the comments if you need it. If there’s anything I can help you with, let me know and happy practicing!
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Thank you very much, Mr. Lee. I’m very pleased with your useful information and tips on improving the left/right hand. The index you explained provided a great tool to improve piano playing at every level. Lastly, it will relieve the boredom of playing some exercises as now you planted the idea to change up the style and speed of what we’re working on. 👏 👏👏 Bravo!
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@@Warren_Leehello, I got a request but I didnt know where to tell you so here I am. My favorite pianist (beside hiromi lol) is horowitz, his left hand is so good that those basses make him look like he got a cello on his left hand. Do you have any exercises focusing on left hand? Thanks in advance
I agree with spending more time on technique: unfortionately teachers are not going to want here that all day from students. No, its not fun, but it is essential!!
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@@Warren_Lee yeah a large part of us used anki, even though it was, as you said, for learning languages, it’s very useful for pretty much everything you need to know by heart. I should be the one thanking you for all the quality content for pretty much nothing, looking forward playing Hiromi as you do someday ❤️
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Okay, what I don't understand: if you need to tell teenage students how to structure their practice, why don't you start building that with younger students? In my music lessons (recorder and half a year of organ in my childhood, violin and half a year of clarinet and flute) this NEVER came up! 10 years of violin lessons and the teacher NEVER told me how to practice or asked me how I practiced! I stumbled upon a helpful book after some years, but before that, it never even occurred to me to think about how to practice because I assumed practice meant repetition until it magically became right. I had music in school only until grade 6 and also there, it was never discussed how to practice even though one teacher asked all of us who could play an instrument to play something for some minutes once. But not even then did he discuss beforehand how we were supposed to pick our pieces and prepare so everybody did that at home in the way their believed it to be right.
Hi, sorry for bothering you. Could you may tell me which book helped you in structuring in a better way your practice ? I'm a piano player and train scales, rythm, arpesggios, octaves etc. As well as a bit of Hanon and Czerny, but i think i still miss something.. Thanks in advance if you reply, and good luck with your practice 🎶😁
@@Warren_Lee No worries ! Thank you so much for replying, I love your advices and have improved a lot thanks to the 80/20 method you explained, thank you so much, good luck with your practice ! 😁🎶
