The Piano Guide Review

Playing the piano is a wonderful, fulfilling activity once you learn how to play. Of course, to get somewhere with it, you do have to practice.  Many new piano students would love to have some tips to enhance playing the piano to optimize their experience on the keyboard.

If you’re intending on practicing or playing for a long time, you can get feel ill at ease while you’re sitting down on the piano bench.  So, before you practice do some back stretches,  slowly twist at your waist to the left and to the right, and reach with your arms up toward the ceiling and to the sides. Spend about 5-10 minutes doing this, and also do it in the middle of practice it you’d like. This will refresh you as you will be able to extend your piano playing time.

Try to sit upright on the piano bench, arms parallel to the floor, shoulders slightly back, and fingers loose without tension on the keys.  When your muscles are feeling tense and stiff, try to reverse it and sit upright, breath deeply, with arms and fingers relaxed, then begin playing again. 

Some piano playing tips would be to learn a new part of a piece with each hand alone and hands separately.  Play slowly a few times, then try both hands together.  Start over from the beginning, and try to play the piece from the beginning and add the problem part.  Perhaps the next day, you can add a new difficult part which you need to work on and get both hands together.  Repeat the formula until you learn the piece.

If you’re  practicing  a difficult piece, an simple way to keep from being weighed down is to split the piece in shorter parts.  So with each successive day you can keep adding to each short section so that you can get both hands together.  You can set up a target for each day so you can achieve something. Remember it takes a few days to really learn to play a piece, especially a longer one, very well.

No matter if you are learning piano online from a great course or if you’re taking lessons from a teacher, you will have to spend time on the piano practicing. There’s no easy way out of it, so learn how to use your practice time wisely.  At the end of a practice session, always wind down with a piece or two that you know very well and love to play. It’s a great way to end your practice for the day.