by Rebecca Bogart | Nov 10, 2026 | Practice Science
You’ve been practicing slowly and faithfully. Then you speed up and the piece falls apart. Slow practice is good advice. On its own, it won’t save you. These 7 fixes make it work. 1. Don’t practice mistakes slowly You’re playing along, you miss...
by Rebecca Bogart | Nov 10, 2026 | Problem Spots, Leaps and Fingering
You know the passage. You play it fine ten times, then miss the same note for no reason at all. Random piano mistakes are rarely random. There’s almost always a cause, and it often sits a note or two before the miss. Find it, and most of those misses go away. I...
by Rebecca Bogart | Nov 10, 2026 | Learning Pieces Faster
Everyone tells you to learn each hand on its own first when starting a new piece. I think that’s mostly a waste of your practice time. If you’ve done it, you probably know the result. Bruce M., a member of my community, said it plainly: “I can play...
by Rebecca Bogart | Nov 10, 2026 | Practice Science
Do you ever want to pound the keys and scream? When you’re stuck, frustration is the right response. You may have been told to just try not to get frustrated. And when you do, you may decide something is wrong with you. It isn’t. Frustration isn’t...
by Rebecca Bogart | Oct 13, 2026 | Problem Spots, Leaps and Fingering
A leap is any moment when the next note isn’t already under your hand. You have to let go, travel, and land on the exact key. For a split second you aren’t touching anything, so you can’t creep over to the next note. That’s why leaps feel...
