What are your favorite practice methods? Tell me in the comments❤️

@ClassicalAlexander

2 жыл бұрын

Hanon

@luvmuppets

2 жыл бұрын

I sometimes warm up by playing the octaves part of Chopin’s Heroic Polonaise Op. 53. Sometimes with left hand only, sometimes with right hand only, sometimes with both hands at once on different sections of the piano.

@TheSunlex

2 жыл бұрын

Eine Übungsmethode von mir ist, dass ich mich, wenn ich ein Stück bereits (vermeintlich) sehr gut beherrsche, beim Spielen per iPhone (Video) aufnehme. So finde ich dann durch sorgfältiges Studieren der Aufnahme noch viele kleine Details, die ich verbessern kann. 😊

@sgreplays7336

2 жыл бұрын

Even if it sounds obvious, practicing in a peaceful environment, without external disturbance, reduces a lot my time of practice. Thanks for the tips Annique

@paulkramer7844

2 жыл бұрын

I like to warm up with the easier Mozart sonatas. No time wasted on stuff you don't want to play. I practice sightreading with pieces that I want to learn later. After using them for sightreading, they're much easier to learn later. When learning the flute, I learned entire pieces from beginning to end, and only repeated problematic parts later.. It worked so well with J.S. Bach sonatas, that I started learning even long piano pieces that way too.

Chopin didn not want his students to practice more than 2 hours per day, one of his students confessed he practiced 4 hours and Chopin became furious!

40 hours ? Are you a TwoSet fan ?

@rosyen5794

2 жыл бұрын

The question on everyone's mind

@shirlyjosna2702

2 жыл бұрын

Twosetters unite!

@eliaskuhs2476

2 жыл бұрын

Who isn‘t ?

@auresceres

2 жыл бұрын

@@eliaskuhs2476 me and the boys was about to say that

@rosarosieee

2 жыл бұрын

lingling is everywhere lmaoo

Hi! :) for you guys that are being frustrated from practicing a single part over and over again, try this: practice the part over and over again until you feel semi-comfortable (doesn’t have to be perfect!) and then take a break. This allows your fingers muscle memory to develop while at the same time you are relaxing your mind. Eat something, relax, drink and water, and after like 20-30 min, return to practicing that same spot that you have been practicing so hard on! Guarantee you that you will see results! Also, the period that you wait depends on your hands and how comfortable you are. Your hands will tell you if you are ready to come back!

Besides getting an overview or playing through, I take small parts of the piece and play the chosen part for 5 minutes, then stop and turn to another part. Those parts can be really small, even just a few notes. After 20 minutes, I take a small break. After about one hour, I take a longer break. It really helps me to stay focussed and learn through letting the mind have periods of rest. After such practice session I play the whole piece, or somethong else I enjoy. Sessions may repeat during the day, but session breaks should be long enough to give the brain time to process what was learned, and then doing something completely different, or resting, also is important according to my experience..

As for the third technique, it reminded me of John Field, who is said to have worked like a slave on difficult passages. It appears that he would place a box of tokens in front of him and remove one after each successful attempt and not stop until the box was empty. I think that practicing very small parts will be very useful for me. Thx a lot, Annique! 🌷

One thing that I found helpful for practicing left hand is to play it alone moved up to the "right hand" register (move your seat so your arm doesn't get into the way). The lighter sound and action allows you to identify problems more easily. It also helps the left hand play lighter.

The pencil/repetition technique is really good for increasing accuracy and reliability. It’s like a fun (but frustrating) game.

Greetings from a Classical Pianist from Albania! You are AMAZING

Thanks Annique, this really helped a lot!

You are so right about warming up. I do use the Hanon and some of the Thomsons exercises, I like to change it up and make it fun. I like spreading out my routine in 3 parts during the day. I warm up each time and then play for a total of 45 mins to an hour. I am older and I have to watch practicing too much. I let my hand tell me when they have had enough. You have helped me refine this process with your fingering and breathing videos, you are amazing. ❤Thank you!

DANKE! Es hilft enorm

Love your tips! Motivate me to practice, thanks! ❤️

Two set Fans, where you at???👇

Thanks, this is my first exposure to your site. Very helpful. 👏

Great vid, thanks for the tips. It was fun to hear your '10 pencil' method. I use & teach a similar trick for juggling - never thought to use it for piano though! Fun way to gamify your practice

Thank you so much for the tips!!

Thank you so much for this video. I practice only one or two measures at a time. I then move on to the next two measures and then try to combine them all once I feel confident enough. I'm glad you mentioned the thing about scales. I've been playing for around 13 years and I've hardly touched many scales. The fastest I've ever been able to even play one is 80 BPM to the sixteenth note. But, the thing is, my harm was always fatigued and hurt afterwards - particularly my left. So I always felt I was doing them wrong and I've never had a teacher (with the exception of one in college but it didn't work out due to my other classes schedules) to really show me/coach me how to play them better - more properly I guess.

For warmup, I usually play an song I already know that's not too hard. We all have standby songs we can play at a moments notice. I just play an easier standby song and not the whole song. I like your pencil method. To play a song perfectly 10 times in a row forces you to concentrate on it.

I really like your tips. Thank you. I usually draw lines, but I like the pencil idea and taking it back when I think it is not good.

Thanks! I shared this with my students. I hope this will help them develop some better practice strategies.

1. Warm up 2. Try the passage one octave up or down 3. Use a number of pencils to reinforce a passage by keeping track of how many times in a row you played it well

@tedallison6112

2 жыл бұрын

Just : NO.

Do a duet with two set violin 🔥

Fantastic🌟🌟🌟 Thank you very much!!!

The comment section will be soon flooded by twoset fans.

@aaliyahkishore246

2 жыл бұрын

Attendance here

@shuatock8216

2 жыл бұрын

I’m an attendee

@janadengler2140

2 жыл бұрын

I’m here👋

I loved the idea of the pencils. Tks. Hugs from Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Thank you for sharing

I’m early! Loved the video! Keep up the good work!

I like that you are very optimistic and talking in a very engaging way Because I tend to get bored if I listen to lots of talking

Very helpful. Thanks

This is very helpful…thank you

Useful to find you behind the scenes piano performances rehearsals

Hi Annique hope you doing well ! I would love to hear a small compilation of you playing some classical music sinc you're very good at it. All the best for you Queen

I’m going to try the pencil method out~ Thank you so much 👏

I do something I like to call segmenting. It can be likened to programming a computer, but for oneself. You work through little snippets of a piece at a time. Each segment, very short in length, can be highly focused on in this manner. The important thing to bear in mind here is connection. You must always end each segment on the first of the next. So after perfecting one, and doing so on the next, you put them together with that continuity in mind. I find that with such ultra focus, I am able to save a lot of time practicing. Ultimately, it is a variation on what all music teachers try to drill into their students: repetition. My teacher always used to tell me, “the first 500 times is the warm up, and the next is the practice”.

@ahoycaptain5065

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a great tip!, usually, I learn a pretty long segment and spend hours perfecting it. Playing and practicing little snippets of the piece seems ‘time-saving’ and easier. Thanks

@sunglee3935

Жыл бұрын

I practice four measures at a time and if there is a measure that is more difficult, then practice that measure until it becomes easy.

For the sections which I’m not firmilar with, I normally take maximum 4 bars and just keep practicing until I get it. There’s once just fully concentrate on that and I get it in 1hr. I’m not sure if that’s too long for 4 measures or something. The aim is to get it right, then fingering and followed by techniques. I’ve only started in 2018 and there’s a long long way to go 🤗

I just love how natural this girl is in front of the camera.

@pranavnyavanandi9710

2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

I love the idea with pencils! I will definitely try it 💗

The pencil idea is brilliant, I will be implementing it tonight

I like the movement when you play Morzat

I love your vidéos and now i love the piano bc youre like a professor

Of course I've enjoyed it! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Definitely going to incorporate the pencil tip!

Gaaah the pencil trick! I will definitely try that tomorrow

Interesting your comments on scales. I feel like I should spend some time on it, but I also would rather do Hanon exercises. But I had the impression I should do scales for my warm up every day or something!

Hi Annique...very interesting video...there is a saying "practice makes perfect"...of course the obverse is "practice makes you practice your mistakes"...what constitutes effective practice varies widely between individuals...I think what works for one may not work for another...just do what works (deteminining "what works" for you is easier said than done...lol)...I have a 15 year old son who just won his first piano competition playing Rachmaninoff op39#5 (first he ever entered)...he recieved a 5 minute standing ovation...he does no scales...no finger exercises of any type...and I've never once had to ask him to practice (only asked to let me have a chance on the piano every once in a while...lol)...he only was curious what 39#5 would sound like on a Steinway"D"...not abot winning... Martha Argerich said she has never done scales and considers it "a waste of time"...it worked for her too

@Jayantan846

11 ай бұрын

All five fingers are not same!!!!! We much avoid comparison... U won't be like me nor I won't be like u ..... So practice and enjoy Every thing is predestined!!!!!!

Die Tips kann ich auch super für Violine anwenden. Hab mich neulich das erste mal seit längerem vorher vernünftig aufgewärmt und mich gewundert, warum alles dann so gut klang...

I like the "10-tokens" technique but pencils scares me. After dropping and having pencils rolled off and being stuck in the piano, I highly recommend using something else other than pencils. Like 10 cards, or 10 erasers etc.

Das mit den 10 Bleistiften ist eine schöne Idee! Danke! 😊 Ich werde das mal mit 10 kleinen Halbedelsteinen versuchen (z. B. Jade).

It would be so helpful if you record another warm up video🙏😍

Am I the only one that actually finds the first Hanon exercise very musical and very beautiful? Especially when you get up to the F and until the next C, it's weirdly beautiful and nostalgic. I guess it's because of the chords that are created by the exercise it self. Sometimes I'll just play that middle part of the octave in different ways and with some more interesting left hand accompaniment than just mimicking what the right hand is doing, and I'll also like expand the "theme" a bit more, and it can really wonderful. It's also a great exercise in improv and even composition, if you do it the way I described.

@usernameatusernameperiodsh2168

10 ай бұрын

It's your personal opinion if you find it nice you go for it

@DerJayger

9 ай бұрын

I find the motifs very "unclassical", but maybe that's the part of the magic.

@moopey1837

9 ай бұрын

@@DerJayger Good point actually. I've also never found it particularly "classical" sounding, but beautiful none the less. Like, I remember when I was much younger, I had like a Yamaha keyboard I would practice on for the first couple of years, because whatever, it was the early years, and it had a acoustic guitar setting, of course, and I would play the exercise with that sound on, but slowly and more romantically. It sounded great. But that goes to show that you're right in saying it kinda doesn't fit well with the piano, if we're talking about expanding the motif into something more.

Thank you - now I know what to do with this pack of extra large popsicle sticks I just found; I don't think I even have 10 pencils, lol! Thanks for the video.

We love you

Your english speaking level is improving fantastically!!

I personally like to play exercises that can help me practice a technique that I need to work on for that piece, so for example, if the piece i am going to practice requires me to play scales, i will practice scales, it helps a lot :))

I warm up with some scales, arpeggios and Chopin studies like op 10 no 01 and 02

Hi Annique, your tip about using 10 pencils for practice really helped me. Now, when I'm looking for a pencil, I know I can find them on my piano.

The pencil trick works great with the kids I work, thank you so much for that idea! Of course we have dorfs instead of pencils and only 3 instead of 10, but for a 6 y.o. is a great game to use for practice and accepting that we learn from mistakes.

It would probably take me 45 years or maybe forever to be satisfied enough to move all the pencils to one side ;D

Warm up absolutely essential indeed. But personally, I have a hard time with scales and exercices, I just cant motivate myself. So I warm up directly with the piece Im training, playing slowly and exagerating the movements, and then slowly increasing tempo

@Assassunn

2 жыл бұрын

Exercises I started banning them, it's a good way of loosing musicality sense. Pieces, and especially etudes have enough matter for technical improvements. However, scales, this is very different to me. Of course it's fundamental to fully understand the music and for the natural fingering, but it's also a way of developing creativity, there is so many way to practice scales and get fun, and I'm not even talking about arpeggios!

Hey Annique, the more I watch your vids, the more I am enjoying the channel. I have heard you mentioning the heavy action of your piano in multiple places resulting in fatigue in some pieces. I was wondering if it is possible to make the piano action for your grand lighter in any way. As in do u have a choice but prefer to keep it heavier so that you are ready to play on other pianos or you dont have a choice at all as to how heavy the action is?

The last one is so creative ima try this, thanks!

@ripgamer6942

2 жыл бұрын

For me. It might take over 2 months to get the 10 pencils to the other side I am really bad at playing piano

@kaz-tm3yh

2 жыл бұрын

@@ripgamer6942keep practicing Also play a piece of your level so you can get all the pencils to the other side faster

Good! I’ve finally found some use for my pencils. Hm. Now… Where did I put them back in 2010?

hey, maybe you could upload a video concerning practicing fugues. I am always struggeling with them!

If you practice you get better If you get better you play with better players If you play with better players you play better music If you play better music you have fun If you have fun you practice If you practice you get better

Hi I really enjoy your sirertons. Can you please continue completely the third part of moonlight sonata and la campanella? pleseee

Hello and thank you for the tips. I am very interested in the first way you were taught to play or practice scales. I practice them but they never sound clean and clear like your scales. What am I doing wrong?

Uu new video!

Which hanon exercises do you do?

I do the pencil thing! just not with pencils, I do it with matches!

I'm a concert level classical pianist. I agree w the warm -up but not w mechanical exercises & the ljke. I Do 5-10 Scarlatti Sonatas every morning-cycling through all 545. Then I play either 1 set of Etudes by Chopin Op.10 or Op 25---or ALL--or 4-6 Liszt Transcendental Etudes or the Paganini set. Then I'm off to the races,daily playing Stravinsky's Petroushka & Balikeriev's Islamey , Godowski transciptions& 1 Horowitz arrangement . If you play much @ this level----you can literally play ANYTHING. After 63,575 hours of piano playing---I'm still learning new repertoire & learning from a 360 degree directionality, even from students. In the final reckoning, you've chosen your level. You're where are as the summation of everything you've played or NOT played. The best way to get good at piano in NOT practice or exercises-----listen carefully it's: SIGHTREADING EVERYTHING!!! I do as Horowitz recommended: " play everything." I do,& love the results.

I like the pencil trick.

Will you do the 1 minute, 10 minutes, 1 hour challenge with Alban Berg piano sonata op.1 or Vers la Flamme by Scriabin?

Ik your a classical pianist but can you go the 1,10 and hour challenges with a jazz piece like my favorite things or something

You can do the 1 minute, 10 minute and 1 hour challenge with this piece: Grand Valse Brilliante op.18, Please💞

make a video on the flying pinkie finger! I think a lot of us beginner pianists know the frustration of our fifth finger rising when we don't want it to...

a collaboration with edy, brett (and of course ling ling) would be nice 😊

im wondering if u having any methods on how to memizorize a piece. i always have to keep looking to the score

I love your piano when it's old you and you wanna get rid of it please ship it to me in Cairo (Egypt)!😅

I like it that you use pens. I use eh... wooden lawndry pins? (I am not native English)

Not sure why she says that scales rarely happen in piano literature, when in fact, scales appear constantly in piano literature, all the way from the Baroque to the contemporary. Scales are an essential part of how composers construct their melodies and passages. Sure, you may argue that the scale isn't always starting on the root, but it's still a scale. Composers such as Beethoven and Mozart are constantly using scale-based musical phrases (You may in fact be hard pressed to find a work by these composers that doesn't use a scale-based passage at least once). This is why it's important not only to practice the physical act of playing the scale, but also making sure you're reading it, so that you're keeping your eye trained for when it has to spot the same scale on all of these classical pieces that constantly employ scale-based musical passages. In fact, there's a very good book by Clementi that is all short pieces in different keys, where the scale is being used as the main thematic construct, so that the student starts to practice their scales in the context of a musical work.

I'm a beginner pianist. Playing for less than 2 years. I do repetition games using my notebook instead of your pencil method. That way, I can give myself accuracy scores with percentages, so I don't receive myself as far as actual accuracy vs perceived accuracy.

Could you try the one hour challenge for Rachmaninov prelude in c# minor if you don’t already know it?

Every performance is an offer haha . No way around it. Thanks for the tips tho 😁

Because small parts is often similar all the music!

And here I thought this will have a reference to twoset

You should make reactions to pianists.

Lustig zu sehen das hier niemand Deutsch ist, deine Videos gefallen mir sehr, weiter so!

Lmao, if I tried the pencil thing a year ago when I was so negative towards myself no pencil would have moved to the other side.

Can you please try Merry go round of life by howls moving castle 🙏🙏🙏

@carlus6432

2 жыл бұрын

Lil

I practice a section to be played 7 times until I can play the section 7 times without 1 mistake. It works well but it is so, so frustrating to make a mistake on the 7th repeat. Oh, start again 1.

Do you watch twoset violin?

ling ling practices 40 hours a day. So we're all screwed.

Im still waiting for unravel part 2, i played that piece myself and I only got as far as you only i spent 3 months not 1 hours😝. It might be evil of me to say this but i feel better about myself when a pro pianist struggles with the same thing i did, even though you spent 1% of the time i did

Playing 10 times felt a bit "demanding" to me. It's tiring and makes me more tense. It works better for me to play 3 times in a row perfectly. If I make a mistake, I start over from zero until I can do it 3 times in a row.

I like to meditate about 20 mins before I play. Empty my days thoughts.Then I do my wrist and hand stretches. Then do 30 mins of warm up. 30 min sightreading, 30 min ear training. Break. 1-2 hr of learning material then 30 mins of casual playing/composing.

Bold of you to assume I would ever finish moving the pencils to the other side ;-;

Practice slow, strong fingers and forte with breaks

Oh look, another youtube hero. 🙄

Do you think it is too late to start learning the piano at 21 years old? I have always wanted to play but I couldn't afford it, and now that I earn my own money I am saving to buy myself a piano. Sometimes I think that it might be too late for me because others have been playing piano since they were kids and at my age they have a professional level of experience and I feel a bit intimidated...