Practice Tips
Lesson time: (1min 59sec)
Talia shares her top tips for effective practice, including pacing, breaking down music, and using backing tracks and interactive tools for focused learning.
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This lesson is part of the course Piano Method: First Steps
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Lesson transcript:
Here are my top practice tips! Focus on small, frequent practice sessions with breaks. Start by snapping the rhythm, then work on pitches, and finally add dynamics and articulation. Go slowly and break pieces into small chunks if you’re stuck. Frustrated? Take a break! The interactive sheet music in this course is a fantastic tool: you can slow down, loop tricky bars, or play with the backing track to feel like you’re in a band. Be kind to yourself, and keep practicing!
About the instructor
Talia Girton is a musician and HCPC-registered music therapist, and the founder of The Cycling Music Teachers. Her work brings together music therapy, counselling and education, and she tutors internationally on the music therapy training course at UDELAS in Panama as well as contributing to professional development with the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA). On MusicGurus she teaches the Piano Method and Piano Foundations courses, guiding complete beginners from first steps through rhythm, both hands, theory and performance. read more