Piano Lessons with Rebecca

Tag: music practice

  • Five practice tips (for piano parents)

    1. Set up practice charts so that your child can see his/her progress. Time and frequency are two very common (and relatively easy) ways to measure and quantify practice efficacy. Completing a wall chart that documents the time spent playing as well as the frequency of practice imparts to your child that practice should happen…

  • Practice is hard

    When I was a child, I used to practice the piano standing up. Why? That way I could run to the kitchen (where there was a clock) to check how many minutes had flown by. Once I hit the illustrious thirty minute mark, I would proudly pronounce to both my parents that ‘I just practiced…

  • Practice Myth no. 2 – Practice Should Sound Good

    In the lead up to a performance, practice should eventually sound good but for most of the time practice would sound fragmented, full of mistakes and repetitive. It’s practice! Not performance! I remember in the lead up to an audition, one of the songs I was learning contained a broken diminished 7th chord. My accompanist…

  • Practice Myth no. 1

    The more you practice, the better you will be This idea is quite a common one – people seem to believe that practicing every day, for very long hours makes you very good at playing your instrument. To some extent this is true BUT what matters more is WHAT you do in your practice and…