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Sam, thanks a lot. Great advice. I've slowed down my practice to snail-pace, and I'm playing pieces that until last week looked impossible to me. My main goal at the moment is to improve my sight reading. Your tips are awesome for that. Tip for you: If you add "" to your website link in the description, you'll make it clickable.

I like your point of view of not making mistakes in the first place and that sounds logical. But for me, making mistakes is feedback. It teaches me how to correct. (I know, you're saying but what if you didn't have to correct in the first place?) Well then I would miss out on all the other learnings that the feedback taught me. Like what that wrong note sounds like, how far out I was, so how far do I need to correct, what to do if I liked the sound of the error and wanted to incorporate it elsewhere etc. Errors give you compound interest in feedback and learning. Just my meek opinion.

but it sounds ok...

Call me crazy but I think I have a simple way to sort out the chords in a 2-5-1 progression, no matter what the key. Play the #2 chord with your left hand; in the key of C that's Dm7 or D F A C. Now, move the thumb down a semitone to B and the index finger down a whole tone to G. You've just played the #5 chord, G7. Now repeat the process, using the bottom two fingers: middle finger goes down a semitone to E and the pinky (the ring finger is unused) goes down a whole tone to C. You've just played the #1 chord, CM7. AmI wrong? Could it be this simple?

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Genius............. thanks Sir

This channel is everything I was looking for 😭 Very useful information, really helpful stuff for beginners AND intermediate piano players! Thanks for your videos 🙏

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I think there is no such thing as muscle memory. The brain directs the electric impulses to the muscles which simply execute. The correct order and careful synchronization of those signal produced in the brain reaching the muscles is the key for correct execution. Thinking about what to do and how to do it, especially without immediately executing it, trying to anticipate critical parts where mistakes can happen is a key point for critical analysis. This goes along with an appropriate pace that suits one’s progress. Mistakes will still happen. Record your own music, compare it to the score, identify mistakes, focus on them and correct them before they become a habit. It is difficult to unlearn what has been consolidated in our brain. Never get tired of self feedback analysis. Is part of the learning process. Never allow complacency to overtake our judgment: it stops critical thinking.

This is a brilliant exercise, especially forr semi-advanced beginners. If you spoke just a little slower I would be way happier. Still, mastering this exercise will be a huge step forward. Thanks.

Excellent Job - thanks a lot - this is, what Im looking for a lot of days

An Amazing place to get so many beautiful Jazz chords without a doubt. A wonderful video packed with so many chords ! Most pianists show these in the key of C. How about showing the BUD Powell Shells, 3 note shells & Tritone Shells in the key of E flat with some popular jazz standards ( E flat key is also used widely in many jazz standards right) if possible. Thanks

Excellent material.

I'm hitting thumbs up just because I saw sleep as an important step. Also true for exams. Cramming all night will probably make your grade go down. Go to bed earlier than normal, sleep well, and you'll do much better.

Spectacular. Again. Thanks.

Spectacular. Thank you so much.

Thank you for your advices. I follow you.

Why does everyone on youtube talk so fast? Too much coffee?

Is it focusrite compressor?😊

I'm sorry but this video is wrong on the point that "making mistakes creates faulty muscle memory". This is a learning myth that is very strong within music teaching, and it comes from people observing that certain mistakes, which weren't present before, starts to repeat themselves. it is understandable how one might think that means you have learned a mistake, but there are other explanations for it. one could be that focus is declining causing more mistakes, but this is usually not the main reason. the main reason is about switching attention from thing to another. let's say you need to play 4 notes one after the other and you focus your attention on how you play the 3rd note in the sequence. Naturally, that is going to interfere with the playing of the other 3 notes, and new mistakes will appear. Now this can also be said about other concepts withing playing. You can switch your attention to how accurately you are playing, how softly or hard you are playing, the tempo, and many other details. Therefore noticing that you are starting to make a new type of mistake can often mean that you have progressed from one mistake and you have started to undo another. Bad habits are a thing, but the way they are developed is different from what you are saying. The brain has an ability to sort between a correct repitition and and an incorrect. When you make a mistake your brain releases cortisol(stress) and norepinephrine(anxiety/fight or flight), and you can feel this as you get annoyed by the mistakes you are making. When you get a repitition correct the brain releases dopamine(in this case the feeling of reward). The brain takes the behaviour and motor movements that caused stress and anxiety and replaces them with the behaviour and motor movements that cause reward. This is called reward contingent learning. The only way you learn a behaviour is when dopamine is released. That also means if you do an action that appears to be correct, like playing a sequence of notes, but you get there through the wrong method, like over tensing your hand muscles or a better example, then you will learn a bad habit. This is where a teacher could be helpful by stepping in and correcting the bad habit by telling the student that they shouldn't reward themselves(release dopamine) if they tense their hands. And even if you get a bad habit, it is not the end of the world. Practice is not permanent and most of learning a skill is about undoing bad behaviour. In fact I would advice people to do the opposite of being slow in practice. Get as many repititions in as you can do in a given amount of time(at a pace where you still get a fair amount of correct repititions in). Think of it as giving an AI as much data as possible. as for why people plateu, it usually has more to do with the intensity of the practice or the feedback they get during practice. If you are more interested i recommend the book "Peak" by Anders Erricson, an expert in the field of practice.

Looking back after many years of piano practice - what made me more skillful, and what was a waste of time, if not lowering my self-esteem? If I liked the piece, I was playing! The pieces I struggled with the hardest, I had to admit, that I actually didn’t like them much, and my favorite pieces were just a breeze to learn, or at least gave a pleasurable time sweating over. So - first rule of practice: Play something you like, enjoy listening to, and want to share with others. 🙂

love it!

Very Holistic thank you

Where have you been all of my life!❤

TLDW: don't fuck up. if you think you're going to fuck up, don't. Review after you don't fuck up.

Huge respect for choosing a heslthier career path, than hanging around with that crazy meth-guy, Jesse.

I had to leave a comment, I loved this Video and I think you explained it very well, CONGRATULATIONS! ❤❤❤❤

Accuracy is speed.

as a preteen, I had a guitar teacher who told me to stop if I make a mistake and start over. 45 years later, I still stop (even if only for a second) if I make a mistake = not good

PS - if you celebrate positive outcomes and remain nonplussed after mistakes, muscle memory for the good outcomes will be reinforced more

You're an amazing piano teacher. I wonder why you're not posting videos?

When I used to do piano more seriously, I would play a song starting at a slow speed (80 bpm I think), and increase it 1 or 2 bpm each time, until I was at 110 or 120. If I made too many mistakes, I'd go back down to 90 or 100 and sharpen things up. Stuff like that is how you can spend 2-3 hours on just one song each day.

I know you talked about mastering sections before learning new material, but should we get up to proper speed (for example 140 bpm as the piece should be played) before moving onto new material? Or should we play the notes correctly out of time and then move on? Incredible video.

This is also true for every other instrument. Great advice.

If you stop every time you make a mistake you are literally creating a, ahem, """"""muscle memory"""""" of doing so (have fun trying to play anything live in front of an audience). You are literally developing a terrible habit right there. As with everything in life, balance is key.

When you made a mistake saying 'less' mistakes instead of 'fewer' mistakes, you should have taken your own advice and started your video again.

Hi is the course ready?

Sleep is probably one of, if not THE most important aspect to making any type of progress on a piece of music. There are still much to be researched and studied about the fundamental nature of sleep and why we need it, but one thing for sure is that during sleep, your brain consolidates short-term memories into long-term memories, because during the day it's too busy doing everything else. Long hours of good quality sleep CEMENTS the progress you make. Which is why it is almost always better to do 1 hour of practice each day for a week than 7 hours of practice for one day, because repeated consolidation of memory over multiple days of sleep lead to incremental growth and progress. The same principle of using sleep to consolidate progress can be used when studying for exams or doing anything that requires receiving and retaining a lot of new information: the number of hours you sleep is just as if not more important than the thing you do itself.

Great !!! 🤗🤗🤗 Will you be making other vidr9s ? I hope...

just eat the piano

hmm question; so I am currently learning the piano and I find once I remember the notes I cannot go to slow because I easily make mistakes as well as if I go to fast before I am ready. I need to hear the relationship of the sound between each note, how they connect. so if i go to slow my brain gets bored and I make mistakes. If I go at a steady pace where I can hear roughly how it is sounding together I make significantly less mistakes. Why is this? because clearly going to slow will not work for me. Is there a point where i should learn music at a set pace that is not too slow. i mean i still make mistakes but I pull them out as I play the bars.

I've always thought of piano practice as a journey of seeking something internally - we have to overcome our ego and be absolutely honest with where we are. I've made my fair share of mistakes of playing something faster than I could and therefore reinforcing the mistakes.

I know, that this is "unhealtly" but trust me or not, my firsti piano proyect is the coda of Scherzo 1 (chopin), I know, i should not be playing these hard themes, but seriusly, this video helped me a lot to improve my skills

Fantastic advise. Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤

can you share next steps after mastery of this video?

Amazing , thanks bro

Precision does for SPEED what speed can NEVER-DO for PRECISION!! 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

This is true to an extent. But I will push back with research that shows intention is also a key factor in learning. When you make a mistake, the brain lights up and becomes more plastic, there is a window of opportunity to ingrain the right motor patterns after a mistake.

It takes years of hard work to become good. There are no shortcuts. There's also no such thing as muscle memory. I know it's called that, but it's inaccurate.

Great observations and advice I'm pretty new to learning to play music and this is all great advice!