Why Your Practice Hours Don’t Matter
Most pianists who plateau are not lazy and not untalented. They have put in thousands of hours. Something about how those hours are being spent is not producing what they hoped. This video is about what that something is. 📅 Book a free piano strategy call: http://kylepwalker.com/piano-lab/cons... 🎼 7-Day Practice Reset: https://kylepwalker.com/practice-reset 🎹 Free 30-Day Practice Plan: http://kylepwalker.com/practice-plan 🎼 Piano lessons and coaching: https://kylepwalker.com/piano-lab 🎥 Performance channel: / @kylepwalker Repertoire discussed: Beethoven, 9 Variations on "God Save the King," WoO 78 https://imslp.org/wiki/7_Variations_o...) My performance of repertoire discussed: • Beethoven: Variations on God Save The King... Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:10 What Ericsson actually found 1:57 The four features of deliberate practice 3:24 What default practice looks like 4:39 The fluency illusion 5:15 Three patterns that aren't really practice 7:00 Live demonstration: Beethoven God Save the King Variations 10:11 Why stopping early works better than grinding 10:51 A note for experienced players 12:10 This week's challenge Subscribe for videos on piano technique, practice strategy, musical problem-solving, and what it actually takes to keep improving as an adult pianist.
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