This piano practice journal outlines various areas for improvement and provides solutions. It addresses techniques, sight reading, reducing problems to simple patterns, rhythmic practice, shifts, musicality, memorization, and peak performance preparation. For each area, it lists specific solutions such as proper body positioning, warm-ups, exercises, using a metronome, practicing voicing and phrasing, mind mapping, and using pedals effectively. The overall document provides a comprehensive guide to developing well-rounded piano skills through addressing multiple technical and musical components of playing.
This piano practice journal outlines various areas for improvement and provides solutions. It addresses techniques, sight reading, reducing problems to simple patterns, rhythmic practice, shifts, musicality, memorization, and peak performance preparation. For each area, it lists specific solutions such as proper body positioning, warm-ups, exercises, using a metronome, practicing voicing and phrasing, mind mapping, and using pedals effectively. The overall document provides a comprehensive guide to developing well-rounded piano skills through addressing multiple technical and musical components of playing.
This piano practice journal outlines various areas for improvement and provides solutions. It addresses techniques, sight reading, reducing problems to simple patterns, rhythmic practice, shifts, musicality, memorization, and peak performance preparation. For each area, it lists specific solutions such as proper body positioning, warm-ups, exercises, using a metronome, practicing voicing and phrasing, mind mapping, and using pedals effectively. The overall document provides a comprehensive guide to developing well-rounded piano skills through addressing multiple technical and musical components of playing.
Technique Position-body levers & bench height Warm-ups and stretches Exercises Sight Reading Physiology of a good sight reader Sight-reading helper Playing partial measures in tempo Letting go of errors Metronome Sight reading with others Reduce Problem to Simplest Equation Law of 7 plus or minus two Pattern seeking scales, arpeggios, chords, intervals, topography, rhythms, key-ness Rhythmic practice For even tone For fast passage work uneven accents long/short, short/long Shifts Overshooting/undershooting Play/prepare Switch hands Musicality Texture- fabric swatches, imagery Voicing between hands- ghost play Voicing within hand staccato/legato Phrase shapes sing, notate bubbles for gradation, find focal point of phrase Microcosm & Macrocosm of phrasing within section Memorization Mind mapping Structural analysis Lef/right brain Auditory recall play one hand & sing other Visual recall Kinesthetic recall Safety spots, jumping safety spots Learn back to front macro/micro Peak Performance Preparation Primary learning style analysis Stress-busters 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd positions Continuous audiation Pedal Legato pedal Pedal with various articulations Sostenuto pedal Specialty pedals