Comments for The Piano Pedagogy Page

Comment on The Real Benefits of Piano Study by David Taylor

David Taylor — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:26:34 +0000

That 3rd link to youtube is hilarious and captivating

Comment on A Lesson from Ballet Class, Part 2 (Burger Pedagogy) by Chris

Chris — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 05:39:30 +0000

I looked this up to prepare myself and my students for a recital. When I am doing bad even after practicing a half hour on one piece I give up. I used to practice a lot for a performance but I still had performance glitches due to anxiety in front of an audience. So I would think I had over practiced. Now I’m ready to try to practice even more. Thanks for the encouragement.

Comment on Nothing but Net by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:52:44 +0000

I do the add-a-note technique all the time too

There’s a couple more I like to, one is to just start at the end of the piece and work your way back.

One of my favorite, is make each note, even if it’s a 16th note, make it a quarter, use wrist on each note, then make them 8th notes, then 16th notes, the more the notes, the larger the wrist action,

oh, and here’s a really good one for Evenness.

Oftentimes in arpeggios, the’ll be a particular interval that will be faster or slower than the others, so, just play the arpeggios, let’s say, in 16th notes, but then, put the down beat on the 2nd 16th note with a strong accent, then the 3rd, and then the 4th, it can be real tricky at first, but then when you’re done, those more difficult intervals start to smooth out, and then your playing gets REALLY even, or at least, that’s been my experience, just thought I’d add some favorite practice exercises of my own.

Comment on Recital Preparation by GAUDETTE

GAUDETTE — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 06:31:58 +0000

DO YOU KNOW OF ANY PIANO ‘SUITES’ SIMILAR TO DAVID CARR GLOVER’S THE HALF FILLED COOKIE JAR?
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR RESPONSE.

Comment on Quick Metronome Idea by Janique

Janique — Sun, 27 May 2012 00:49:59 +0000

Hey Tay,

I used to be the same way! I refused to use a metronome until I went for my music degree… It was a little embarassing having your world reknown piano teacher try to do metronome work with me. Perseverance is key. I set my metronome to tick the eighth notes. I started like that and eventually was able to have it tick only on the beat. It takes some time. I wish my piano teacher would have done some more metronome work with me. But all in all, it was a fantastic opportunity to learn.

Comment on Interval, Schminterval! by Ms Pam

Ms Pam — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:31:58 +0000

Hi Jason, I just stumbled across your website and ended up reading every blog from start to finish. Thank you so much for putting this together. I’m a new teacher as well and I love all of the ideas! Looking forward to reading more.

Comment on The Holy Grail of Piano Teaching by Chrissa (a tad bit creative)

Chrissa (a tad bit creative) — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:19:10 +0000

A really interesting article and a very good analogy on Language arts guidelines – makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing!

Comment on The Real Benefits of Piano Study by John Mann

John Mann — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:53:14 +0000

I am a newbie at learning piano. It is such a great feeling to be able to play a song for the first time.

Thank you for your inspiration
John

Comment on Nothing but Net by Emily

Emily — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:09:14 +0000

Awesome, can’t wait to try these tips out! Thanks for posting them.

Comment on The Augmented Alberti Exercise by Betty

Betty — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:14:15 +0000

Other ideas for teaching alberti bass .
What do you think about wrist rotation? How much up and down motion in the wrist?
I will try the augmented alberti exericise. Interesting approach.