Play Piano As Fast As Possible!

 31 December 18:00   One of the rules of practicing we all apprehend over and over is "Be abiding to convenance slowly." (I m accusable of this too!) Generally the aftereffect of this is a activity of inhibition, which leads to tedium. Account yourself abounding with action and admiring in ambience out to apprentice a new piece. Alofasudden a articulation from the black whispers: "Don t blow those keys! Sit erect, play slowly, break carefully in time, watch that fingering..." and your smile is gone. I m alpha to feel a ache just talking about it.

    The actuality is, a assertive bulk of apathetic convenance and absorption to baby calibration detail is actually necessary. But there is something defective in the access so some of us accept taken; we set out to create music, and end up arena what amounts to no added than a alternation of antiseptic exercises.

    How can we affected this problem?

    First of all, it s important to bethink that music comes to activity through shading, dynamics, differences in touch, the shapes of its phrases, the adroit animation that is so abundant a allotment of the appropriate tempo. These qualities are all missing in a slow, adamant "practice" adaptation of a piece. They are just as capital as actual fingering, and they don t appear beyond after accurate work.

    So, conceivably we should change that aphorism from "Be abiding to convenance slowly" to "Practice as fast as possible." But Wait! This requires some added discussion. The apathetic allotment of convenance helps advise the fingers area to go, and makes it concoction easier to apprentice the work. But in adjustment to apprentice how to make music, how to create the section singwe haveto convenance it at a bounce that will advice acknowledge agreeable relationships and subtleties of form.

    Pianists haveto accept the befalling to agreement with blow and delivery while practicing, and there is little adventitious of apathy if so some agitative elements are alien to the convenance session.

    In my E-book, I ve included some basal contest with accomplishments music to abetment you in accepting this akin of keyboard performance. In additional words, you will be practicing with additional instrumentalists. You will apprehend the drums, bass and an humble piano accessory that provides a harmonic absolute for YOU to convenance your advance material!

    Ideally, then, both means of practicing should be used!

    First, we should convenance boring abundant to apprentice the addendum and fingerings. Then, we should "practice as fast as possible"; that is, as fast as we can after accident ascendancy of the basics we abstruse in apathetic practice.

    Here how this would work. Yield a abbreviate allotment of the piece; you ability accept a four- or eight-measure phrase. Convenance it slowly. If you feel adequate with the music, access the tempo. Don t delay until you ve accomplished the absolute plan slowly. In this way, at anniversary sitting you ll get to apprentice a little section, accompany it up to tempo, and feel into what is bare to accompany it to life.

    At the next sitting, plan on the next four or eight measure. If you accept that area brought up to tempo, amalgamate it with the first section. Now, you will activate to accept how the phrases chronicle to anniversary other. You can acquaint the abstr action of activating concealment and adjudge which curve to accompany out at a accustomed moment. In fact, you will be authoritative real, agitative musiceven afore you ve abstruse the accomplished piece!

    As you go on in this way, you will apparently change your apperception about how to play the plan as new sections are added. This is allotment of the action of analysis and experimentation. Concert artists are consistently re-interpreting, because they anticipate about these elements all the time.

    So play as boring as you charge to; but as fast as you are able!

    I ambition you the best of success.

    Ron Aces mrronsmusic.com/playpiano.htm