Download or read book The Piano Student s Guide to Effective Practicing Music Instruction written by Nancy O'Neill Breth and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Educational Piano Library). Students are genuinely surprised when things go wrong in a lesson. They don't realize that they only half-listen while practicing. When they do notice a problem, they simply play the passage over and over (cementing in the mistakes) and hope for the best. That's what most students call practicing. The Piano Student's Guide to Effective Practicing shows the student how to save time and build good practice habits. It helps the student solve specific problems with 58 concise practice tips clearly-explained drills and tactics for mastering challenging passages. Printed on heavy-coated stock for durability, the Guide is designed to be kept on the music desk for quick reference by the student when problems occur in daily practice. Practice tips are categorized to address issues of accuracy, balance, clarity, continuity, coordination, comfort, evenness, expression, fingering, rhythm and speed. The tips work for students at all stages and ages, including adults!
Download or read book The Piano Student s Guide to Effective Practicing written by Nancy O'Neill Breth and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Parent s Guide to Effective Practicing written by Nancy O'Neill Breth and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Educational Piano Library). This guide is a tool for parents to help their children build good practice habits. It brings together a variety of widely used practice tips, written in a way that is easy for children to understand. Parents who use this guide regularly, even if they have limited time or little knowledge of music, can greatly improve the quality of their children's practice sessions. When practicing is interesting and fun, children get good results and want to practice more.
Download or read book Practicing the Piano written by Nancy O'Neill Breth and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offers a broad selection of practice tips with musical examples to help students of all ages find imaginative solutions to pianistic problems. The book explores how to: organize practice time; map music before practicing to uncover the musical terrain that lies ahead; use practice time effectively from the first reading through performance; develop fluency with accuracy; polish and memorize a piece; and lay the foundation for confident performance."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book How to Practice Music written by Andrew Eales and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Instructional). The essential companion for every musician. Accessible and authoritative, How to Practice Music is an ideal guide for anyone learning to play music. Suitable for instrumentalists and vocalists of any genre, this comprehensive handbook will give you a better idea of how to practice music, good reasons for doing so, and the confidence to succeed. Concepts: how to be motivated; how to plan your practice; how to warm up; how to practice core skills; how to practice pieces; how to practice mindfully; how to practice playing; and more!
Download or read book The Art of Practicing written by Madeline Bruser and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide for the amateur and professional musician that teaches us how to transform practicing from an often laborious activity into an exhilarating and rewarding experience Foreword by Yehudi Menuhin • “Give this book to any musician you love and to any person who loves what music does for them and for the world.”—Richard Stoltzman, clarinetist In The Art of Practicing, acclaimed pianist and teacher Madeline Bruser combines physiological and meditative principles to help musicians release physical and mental tension and unleash their innate musical talent. She offers practical techniques for cultivating free and natural movement, a keen enjoyment of sounds and sensations, a clear and relaxed mind, and an open heart and she explains how to: • Prepare the body and mind to practice with ease • Understand the effect of posture on flexibility and expressiveness • Make efficient use of the hands and arms • Employ listening techniques to improve coordination • Increase the range of color and dynamics by using less effort • Cultivate rhythmic vitality • Perform with confidence, warmth, and freedom Complete with photographs to show essential points of posture and movement for a variety of instruments, this is the definitive guide to turning practice from a sometimes frightening, monotonous chore to a fun, fulfilling activity.
Download or read book 14 Commandments of Music Practice written by R. D. Aragon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that 90% of all music students quit within the first year? Why you ask? It's because most music teachers don't teach students how to practice properly. This leads you, the music student in a position the can doom the future of the music industry! In 2005, I had a student named Jacob. He was a very shy guy with enormous drive to become a killing guitarist, but the guy had no born talent. I believed in order to be great, you had to be born with talent. I was dead wrong! I wasn't born an Amazon Best Selling Author or had the gift for music. I had to practice my buns off for hours and had tons of failure. I had only a few years of teaching under my belt and assumed students knew what they were doing when it came to practicing. I was dead wrong again. Jacob was struggling with his progress and I felt his frustrations and I knew he was about to quit. I had to put a stop to this ongoing situation with students. I finally analyzed what his situation and I uncovered the mystery of Jacob's issue and here were a few. No specific goals. No plan. No focus. No metronome. No visualization. I realized I needed to create a guide that can address these basic issues. 14 Commandments of Musical Practice assembles almost 30 years of accumulated expertise into 14 fundamental, easy-to-understand principles to becoming a true musician using any instrument. As I explain on how to practice music, learning an instrument is about much more than endless practice time. You'll learn: Why written music goals are crucial. How to write up a simple practice plan for success. How to remove distractions in practice time for improved focus. How to properly use the metronome for metronome haters. How to visualize and why visualization is important to be a great musician. How to record and analyze your progress. And a bonus on a super technique called "stress control training". After creating this new guide I finally trained Jacob on proper practice techniques and what to look for. It took him a while to implement these techniques, but finally after some misunderstandings and confusion, Jacob began to show major progress. I thought I was going to lose him, but these new techniques saved Jacob's musical future and it can do the same for you too. But remember... This book isn't for any musician. It's for the musicians that wants enormous success! These methods are so easy yet intense that most will quit. If that's you, then I totally understand, it's not for everyone. "If you're serious about playing, practicing, and improving your skills on your instrument, then this book is for you!" - Yellow- Don't hesitate and click the buy button today, and start learning--the right way!
Download or read book The Piano Lessons Book written by Neil Miller and published by THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK. This book was released on 2007-12-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK by Neil Miller provides the essential information required to excel at playing the piano: what you should be learning in piano lessons so you can play to your full potential. It is the piano student's guide for getting the most out of practicing, lessons, your teacher and yourself. Whether your preferences are towards classical, jazz or popular music, THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK will show you organized practicing methods that take the mystery out of music, revealing how music is put together and easing the challenges of piano playing.THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK combines Neil Miller's creative teaching techniques and experiences with practicing and performing, comprehensively covering topics extremely useful to anyone taking or planning to take lessons.In THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK, Neil Miller recounts relevant personal incidents and informative historical accounts, to enlighten and entertain. Hundreds of illustrations and musical examples enhance the explanations.
Download or read book The Piano Practice Physician s Handbook written by Nicola Cantan and published by Colourful Keys. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right now, all over the world, piano students are wasting precious practice time. And piano teachers are straining valuable vocal chords telling them to practice more. It's time to reexamine this setup, and cure the underlying piano practice ailments. The Piano Practice Physician's Handbook takes a fresh look at how piano teachers teach practice skills. These 32 piano student ailments and their cures open up new ways of thinking about piano practice problems. With this straight-forward and practical guide piano teachers can get their students practicing more effectively, making faster progress, and having more fun!
Download or read book Fundamentals of Piano Practice written by Chuan C. Chang and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book that teaches piano practice methods systematically, based on mylifetime of research, and containing the teachings of Combe, material from over 50 pianobooks, hundreds of articles, and decades of internet research and discussions with teachersand pianists. Genius skills are identified and shown to be teachable; learning piano can raiseor lower your IQ. Past widely taught methods based on false assumptions are exposed;substituting them with efficient practice methods allows students to learn piano and obtainthe necessary education to navigate in today's world and even have a second career. See http://www.pianopractice.org/
Download or read book Handbook for Piano Practice written by Victoria B. Stearns and published by William R. Parks. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Victoria Stearns discusses her book, "Handbook for Piano Practice." As a lifelong piano teacher, I feel that more people could learn to play the piano, which leads the way to music appreciation and enjoyment, if they only knew how to practice efficiently. There would be progress instead of discouragement, and people would continue with music lessons instead of quitting them. For decades, I have searched for a book that stresses the important principles along with basic information, and never found anything. The book I have written, Handbook for Piano Practice, is the book I wish I had had as a student all those years ago. It is not a piano "method" but a friendly guide and companion, encouraging and providing all the pertinent material and necessary hints for good practice habits (with reasons given) and learning genuine piano literature. It is for students of all ages (including adult "restarters") from before the first lesson through the intermediate level, sufficient for secondary piano students as well. The keys to learning are efficient practice and learning how to listen. Most teachers do not have the time to delve into these matters, and these points need much repetition. I myself wasted many an hour with improper practice habits. If every piano student used this as a reference, there would be a great deal more enjoyment, appreciation, progress, learning, even attendance at musical events. The world would be a far better place if more people played music. Today we hear a great deal about stress reduction, Alzheimer's prevention, the need to keep learning, the need to relax. Music will accomplish all of the above and more in a most enjoyable way. Victoria Stearns, has two degrees in music from SUNY at Buffalo, one in music history and the other in piano performance [both summa cum laude] and also a master's degree in library science. She had additional study in music history at Yale. She has taught piano for almost five decades and has worked in music libraries in Buffalo and the Library of Congress, and also wrote music criticism for the Buffalo Evening News.
Download or read book Teaching Piano Pedagogy written by Courtney Crappell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing essential tools to transform college piano students into professional piano teachers, Courtney Crappell's Teaching Piano Pedagogy helps teachers develop pedagogy course curricula, design and facilitate practicum-teaching experiences, and guide research projects in piano pedagogy. The book grounds the reader in the history of the domain, investigates course materials, and explores unique methods to introduce students to course concepts and help them put those concepts into practice. To facilitate easy integration into the curriculum, Crappell provides example classroom exercises and assignments throughout the text, which are designed to help students understand and practice the related topics and skills. Teaching Piano Pedagogy is not simply a book about teaching piano--it is a book about how piano students learn to teach.
Download or read book The Art of Effective Piano Teaching written by Dino P. Ascari and published by Author House. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The teaching of beginning piano students, especially young piano students, takes the utmost skill and expertise. To be successful at this most basic level of instruction, teachers must make music lessons fun and exciting while giving students the sense that learning to play piano is truly achievable. This is no easy task! The Art of Effective Piano Teaching is unlike any book in its field. It combines an eclectic array of tried and true teaching principles with some of the most innovative thinking to come along in years. Novice teachers as well as experienced instructors will glean much from this clear, concise, and accessible text. For additional information, visit effectivepianoteaching.com.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Piano Pedagogy written by Merlin B. Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can piano teachers successfully foster student participation and growth from the outset? How can teachers prepare and sustain their influential work with beginner student musicians? This book presents answers to these questions by making important connections with current music education research, masters of the performance world, music philosophers, and the author’s 30-year career as a piano pedagogy instructor in Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. It investigates the multilayered role piano teachers play right from the very beginning – the formative first four to five years during which teachers empower students to explore and expand their own emerging musical foundations. This book offers a humane, emancipatory, and generous approach to teaching by grappling with some of the most fundamental issues behind and consequences of studio music teaching. More experiential than abstract and cerebral, it demonstrates how teaching beginner piano students involves an attentiveness to musical concerns like our connection to music, learning to play by ear and by reading, caring for music, the importance of tone and technique, and helping students develop fluency through their accumulated repertoire. Teaching beginner students also draws on personal aspects like independence and authenticity, the moral and ethical dignity associated with democratic relationships, and meaningful conversations with parents. Further, another layer of teaching beginners acknowledges both sides of the coin in terms of growth and rest, teaching what is and what might be, as well as supporting and challenging student development. In this view, how teachers fuel authentic student musicians from the beginning is intimately connected to the knowledge, beliefs, and values that permeate their thoughts and actions in everyday life. Fundamentals of Piano Pedagogy stands out as a much-needed instructional resource with immense personal, practical, social, philosophical, educational, and cultural relevance for today’s studio music teachers. Its humanistic and holistic approach invites teachers to consider not only who they are and what music means to them, but also what they have yet to imagine about themselves, about music, their students, and life.
Download or read book Musician s Practice Planner written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (General Music). Proven successful in private lessons and in the classroom, this planner is a must-have for all musicians. Teachers can use it to set goals and assignments, and students can monitor their progress, time and efficiency.
Download or read book The Practice Revolution written by Philip Johnston and published by Practicespot Pty, Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to helping students and their music teachers when the students for 99.7% of the time are between lessons and need to practice alone without their teacher's help.
Download or read book Learn to Play Piano written by Heather Milnes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEARN TO PLAY PIANO: Step by step guide to playing the piano and reading piano music This brand new course is perfect for all young students. Easy to follow with new skills introduced one step at a time Simple arrangements of well know tunes Original tunes in a variety of styles Written by a piano teacher with over 30 years experience Designed to match the abilities and interests of early teens and older juniors. Just the correct balance between new material and repetition so that students retain what they learn.
