My favorites for learning a piece you want to make your own: 1. Memorize right away, don't waste time reading through the piece repeatedly. Write the name of each note next to it along with all the fingerings. This may seem simplistic and redundant but memorization is not sight reading, that is a different skill. 2. Memorize back to front. That way when you play you are always going towards the part you know best. 3. Memorize silently. Don't press the keys all the way down. Imagine the sound as you feel your fingertips touch the keys. This forms the neural networks connection ming, nerves,and muscles. 4. Go very slowly and say each note to yourself while your finger is on that key. 5. Practice mentally away from the piano. Visualize your fingers at the keyboard with correct fingerings and correct notes. 6. Don't try to memorize through muscle memory. Your mind goes to sleep when you repeat passages many times over. 7. A piece ( or a section) is memorized only after you can visualize, imagine, and play every note in your mind away from the piano.

1. Don't start by playing; start with the context. 1:06 2. Don't commit to a practicing schedule you cannot keep; focus on the outcome to set specific goals. 2:55 3. Don't let your eyes be glued to the music 4:05 4. Don't just practice slowly; practice at your "just manageable tempo". 4:38 5. Don't wait to add musical expressions 5:24 6. Don't trust your memory. 6:29

Your advices make me rethink about my life-long dream of playing an instrument, preferably piano. An inspiring talk! Thank you

You remind me my piano teacher ❤

Включил видео, чуть не заплакал от ностальгии по былым временам 3 года назад, когда я только начал слушать классическую музыку и наткнулся на ваше видео с обзором на La Campanella, это наверное самое первое в жизни, что меня так поразило, эта атмосфера, дружелюбие, превосходная игра и даже толика стеснительности. Вы замечательная, спасибо

I am going to try this, it gets a bit frustrating, it feels like I’m always trying to learn pieces that are a little beyond my reach and get stuck in a rut lol, but I will pay attention more to setting goals instead of hours of repetitious practice. Thank you so much for taking time to help.

5:31 I love your "archival footage," complete with scratch marks on the "film," as if this were a comment made in the 60s or something. 😄

Great advice! Everybody needs to watch this. Especially for 4 and 5.

I used to learn quickly and memorize easily in the early 1970s, but I could not sightread well. I had to memorize measure by measure. I began working on sightreading in the mid 70s. Then, after 20 years without practice, I started relearned piano in 1998 by working on sightreading, and gradually increasing speed. After 6 years of practice, a hand injury made me stop playing for 16 years. I began playing again in 2021, relearning pieces I learned in the past, and a even more new pieces. Maybe because of the larger number of pieces I learn more slowly and can't memorize quickly any more, and I am far more needing to keep my eyes glued to the page -- but I am progressing with 12 Mozart sonatas, 2 Beethoven sonatas, 6 Brahms pieces, 3 Chopin Mazurkas, and one piece each by Schubert, Bach and Mendelssohn. Circumstances forced me to learn mainly on my own after piano lessons in the late 50s and early 60s. Finally about two years ago I found a piano teacher I could consult remotely (she lived in Manila, and I live in Ireland). Unfortunately, she died suddenly at a very young age, so I'm learning as much as I can by watching KZfaq videos. I still can't play well and without mistakes like I did in 1976 and in 2004, but it is becoming easier to play through the pieces, and I think by the end of this year I may be playing tolerably well again.

i used to practice only while staring at the music. as a result, i got really good at sightreading stuff but my musical expression was not there and i could not keep a song memorized for very long (i'd forget it just days after the recital). when i stopped relying on the paper so much then i think i improved at both of those things.

Number 5 🙏 Thank You

Your music is still too loud when you’re talking