Chopin’s Practicing Secrets: 5 Habits He Taught His Students
Chopin taught 5 hours a day, 6 days a week. His students wrote down what he told them in diaries and letters. Read together, those recollections add up to a way of practicing that still works. They've been gathered into a book called Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As...
How to Learn a Piano Piece Faster: 7 Steps
If you practice for an hour and the next day it feels like you forgot everything, the piece is not too hard for you. The way you are practicing it is the problem. These are the seven steps I use with my students, shown with Debussy's Clair de Lune. You can watch me...
Why Your Hands Get Tense at the Piano (and How to Fix It)
1. Hanging on to notes that are already finished These three habits are the same ones I demonstrate on camera in The 4 Reasons Your Hands Get Tense (You Don't Know You're Doing #3). Watching the movement helps more than reading about it, so start there if you learn...