honestly, you are the humblest pianist and piano tutor I've ever seen. I have been following you for a while and after 20 years of discouragement and resentment I have started to play the piano again and realised that a kind, honest and humble teacher like you would change a student's perspective of studying the piano. Thank you ! :)

Josh you are a true inspiration to me, both your teaching and your humble and sweet character, you are the one and only reason I do what I do now and I basically owe you everything that happened to me during these couple of years. I can never thank you enough, I wish to meet you someday (and maybe have a lesson with you haha :D) Greetings to you and your lovely family.

I'm truly inspired.

Hey Josh. Thank you for sharing this with your viewers ! It's really beneficial and great pleasure to grow up in a family with interest in music. That child would certainly appreciate the advantage of early learning for the rest of their lives. Support and Respect to you from Brisbane, AUS.

9:59 long. That's how you know Josh is doing his videos for the people.

I wish my family taught me piano. Ur a lucky man bro

What got me into piano was when my dad bought an 88 key piano online (A really good quality keyboard), and after that I was immediately hooked and played about 4 hours that night. :) 7 months later I'm still hooked to the piano and I love piano so much, idk what I would do without music.

Hey Josh, I have played piano for about 10 years when I was young, but for the reason of my further education, I rarely have the opportunity to continue to play. Recently I bought a piano because I really want to re do it, could you perhaps do a video for how to re practice or some advice for people like me? I really appreciate it. Thanks!

Josh, you are such a sincere and great person.

I've always hated these types of videos ahaha makes me realize my lack of true dedication. Im only kidding though. Its awesome to hear a little bit about you josh thank you!

It's about achieving balance. Which you have. Very inspiring! Thanks for sharing.

Wow, I feel your way of talking is quite as clear and precise at your piano playing.

It's crazy to hear what it was like to start practicing an instrument at such a young age, especially as someone who has only started playing piano for the last year and a half and is trying to hit 2/3 hours a day practice. I wonder if it is even possible to ever make up for all that missed experience.

I think it's massively important to stress that practice time follows a learning curve as any other human skill. More than 6 hours per day is beneficial as long as they're not done uninterrupted. 3 sessions of 2 hours with sufficient rest.

josh ...you are one of my favorite teacher in youtube ......thank you for everything.your student from Saudia Arabia.

I'm inspired also, amazing! The amount of time I should study piano is 75 minutes a week, including about 30 minutes daily. I was in the special Olympics for golf and won 4th place. I need to watch my typing.

Impressive bio, thanks for sharing!

I don't know if I am glad now to hear that all pianists are that good because they PRACTISE really hard and not only because it's "in their blood". Or if I am sad because I never can catch up 35 years :( I wasn't allowed to learn piano as a child (too expensive...), struggled through flute and guitar (instruments I never really got a sense for, with teachers that couldn't teach me to understand and like music theory) and then I forgot about how lovely it would be to play an instrument I really love until the age of 39. Now I've been learning for 3,5 years, looking for every music theory video and tutorial I can find, diligently practising 2 hrs a day and seeing some progress, but it feels so slow. Especially sight reading doesn't really get better... if I'd just learned that as a child, it'd be sooo much easier.

Enjoy the family! There is nothing like it!!!!

So often we hear "oh so and so is so 'gifted' at music" as if the fairy godmother waved her wand over someone's cot and magically bestowed upon them 'the gift of music'. But no! What Josh, you make clear here is that it's not a gift, it's a GRAFT! a hard graft... years of practice and application. If there's any gift at all it's the gift of patience and persistence and concentration, and the ability to derive pleasure from the hours of repetition that it takes to grow those neurones and develop the skills and learn the language that is music. No doubt if I'd spent as many hours studying stock market trading as I have learning music I would be a much wealthier man... well, financially at least.... 🤔

Thank you very much for your gift.

Thank you so much for sharing. This makes me feel a lot better about where I'm at. :) Plus, learning about other musicians' backgrounds is one of my favorite things, haha.

"Your hair was crazy." I like you very much man, but indeed it was. Anyhow, this was a great video, nice hearing about your journey.

Insightful interview. Nice to see a pianists personality.

I'm late to the party finding your channel Josh, but I'm so glad I did!

So fun to see this, even though I am quite late, haha. I was in a classroom at the UNC Greensboro where you gave a Skype presentation for my Piano Pedagogy class. I was hooked with your content. Thanks for sharing your background. I am hoping you can share a video on how to decide what repertoire to play after college as a busy teacher. :)

Hey Josh, curious as to how you supported yourself financially whilst doing your bachelor and beyond. Was it mostly teaching and accompanying work or did you also have a part time job?

Thank you for sharing that. That was seriously inspirational!

Hay Josh, thank you for this video:) But could you also show us how your practice routine looked like? 😁 What did you exactly practice? 😆

Wow! You’ve got a huge brain dude!

Very interesting! Thank you for sharing! Your great

Wow! Impressive! Wow!

wow - so gorgeous! You could so be a model!

Great video sir. I didn’t know you went to Michigan. My voice teacher got his DMA there and studied with George Shirley.

I played on the golf team too lol! You have a great background!!!

hi Josh, great inspiration from you ! I would like to know how do you split your practice time when you do 3 or 4 hours of piano a day ?

Hay Josh😊 I ve been playing the piano for 2 years now and I wonder what your practice routine was when your were practicing 2 - 2,5 hours a day😄 I do 1 hour and try to incorporate technique exercises, sight reading and my piece (currently pathètique sonata). I'd be nice if you could answer my question😊

Appreciate you so much josh, I’m a 17 year old pianist from New York and I would love your advice on this, how do I choose the right college? And is college necessary and beneficial ? I don’t have much money but I want to be an all time great piano player and I put the effort in, but not sure which is the best route after highschool any advice ,

Can it be that you were essentially away from the piano during the two years of your missionary work? How did that work?

A good childhood is definitely most important, don't feel bad about not practicing more then. You still practiced quite a bit in your younger years. I had a parent with narcissistic personality disorder and was forced to practice. Luckily I enjoy it now and made it a profession, and my parent can't stand it!

So would you time your practice sessions to know you were getting two and a half hours? Or was it less regimented than that?

Hi Josh! Very curious. What books and methods did you use in the very beginning years? I've been listening to you every day for a while, running out of KZfaq videos lol so I'm subscribing soon. Thanks!

Hello dear❤.. Could you please make a video about returning to practice after a very long annoying cut (non practicing for a long time).. Dor high levels of skill.... How could we return to our previous stamina and level❤ Thanks.

I am perfect thank u the end

Do you have any videos going over what you would practice in those daily hours? I usually feel like I get stumped on how to stay creative with practice unless I'm just doing stuff like improvising and I can get demotivated from the lack of stimulation in that regard, if I'm just doing rote technique without doing it in a creative or expressive way. This usually makes me end up practicing a lot less after a burnout from all that "hard line in the sand" style of practice.

Probably it is not beneficial for you Josh, but I listen to your Chopin piano competition every single day. It is so beautiful!!! Did you notice that the presenter said your name wrong? Did she apologize? It was very awkward.

Right now I'm practicing about one hour a day, and my goal is to get to four-five hours a day by the end of the year! Thanks for all the tips, they have helped a lot!!! Also, my ultimate goal is to become a concert pianist, but, I don't know if that is possible since, I have only been playing piano for 4 and a half years.( I'm about to be 17 next Month) I also can't afford a private teacher😥 what do I do?😫🙏

Poor Cleveland, nobody wants to live there. Even Babayan, who was adopted by Cleveland like an adorable starving puppy, has moved to New York. Cleveland's my hometown and I was at the Casadesus competition that Babayan won (audience member). 1989 I think. Gaby Casadesus was still alive and there. Babayan was truly awesome and a spot in his studio would have been a good reason to move to Cleveland. But Ann Arbor's a great place and Michigan a great school. Anyways, I enjoyed hearing about your background, didn't know you were from Utah. Which I don't blame you for coming back to. I currently live in Oregon and am just besotted with the West.

What church were you from when you went on your mission?

Man takes several minutes to remind us why he is so much better than other people....

Where did you serve?

Some say liszt could sight read any score you gave him

Dont worry about those people who practice 8 hours a day, I use practice 12 hours a day and still got nothing to play perfectly as you 🙃 so now I am back to 8 hours a day.

'Trust me, you don't want to live in Baltimore' 😂

aww Barron was born in Baltimore

Did you try Chopin competition maybe?

I think it's too heavy to practice 9 hours a day. Where is your life? Thank you for sharing with us your story, Josh.

It is debateable whether practising for 8-9 hours a day will accomplish what they pianists concerned believe. After 4 hours there is so much lactic acid build-up in your muscles, that they can't perform very well at all and you will in fact not learn when you hoped for, unless you take at least a 2.5 hour break. I write this as an Accelerated Learning Trainer of 11 years experience, but I've also seen a prof from Julliard say this. Also, trying to learn anything new after 7pm is not a good idea - your brain is getting ready for sleep then, so all you will be doing is seting up a mental battle in your body, which is entirely counter-productive. It takes 2 hours to learn something new after 7pm, compared with 15 minutes beforehand. The time after 7pm should be used for reading music only, and this should be specifically for revision purposes ONLY. You want to be as tired as possible when you read the music, so it passes as in a blur. This means your conscious mind will not be reasiing any objections, and that is what you want because then you will know it wll be passing wordlessly into your unconscious mind, and that is the most powerful part of your brain. You can learn as much from visualising as you can from practising. The same slow and fast-twitch muscles fibres work in your body when you visualise as do when you are actually playing. Schabel hated practising. He used to do visualising to get round it. In this way he got away with two hours per day..... And I have tested this with myself and others. Using the visualisation technique I mention, you can get someone who is struggling with a passage to play it flawlessly very early on, during their practice time, if not first time round. It cuts hours off the work you have to do! It's a no brainer!

Ahhh look at tht summer girl blush!!!!!!

I play piano and i have to say i never had a teacher whom will teach me correctly because of that my uhm. Nerves are being pinched by my bone or i have tendonsitis something like that so i have to do surgery they thing is if i do it they say i wont be able to do piano still havent done it but yet i keep practicing and since i dont really sleep i tend to practice maybe.. 7-8 hours everyday because of it yet i cant seem to level up to a higher lever i really hope i can but i am very discouraged about it

Did you study classical or jazz in college?

Damn. Wonder how much farther you could have went had you not stressed yourself out with AP courses and college, and focused instead on your passions.

Where did you grow up?

How should we identified “technique”?

I struggle to practice 30 mins a day with family and work!!

45 min daily at 4 years old, 2.5 hours at teen level, simultaneous bachelors/masters degree, constant recitals…doesn’t seem too hard

hello everyone i'm 14 and i'd love to be in piano competitions but i was wundring if it was to late bc I've only been playing since age 13 and all the people who win competitions are like child prodidji's.

do you play golf today as well

Who taught hair dos?

I told my son if he was very focused in his practice time; and If he met his teachers goals, he could stop practice for that day. He averages about 4 hours a day. I wanted him to have a life away from the piano as well. You only have 1 childhood.

It sounds to me that you had a successful fortunate. You're a pretty lucky person. I wish I had the resources and determination you had. What did it for you? I'm just curious.

I can barely practise for 10 min and i get bored . Im lvl 7 . Like what do u practise FOR 4 HOURS!?

Was your father present while you were growing up? Maybe I missed it, but you seem to speak only about your mother.

3rd generation pianist from age 4...with up to 2.5 hrs a day..... 😳😳😳😳 Damn... Be very interested what did you do in them hours? Exercises only. Pieces or both?

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More importantly, what’s going on with your hair?

but utah is so boring.