Juilliard graduate helping dedicated adult pianists who love challenging repertoire practice less while learning more.
🎹 the #1 secret holding you back
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Anytime you have to "unlearn" an unknown practice habit, it slows down your progress faster than taking a wrong turn and not realizing it for miles. But what will slow him down presto is adding something to his practice that will take him extra time to remove. If you watched that and thought, ‘wait… I might be doing that too,’ you’re not alone. It speeds up your progress by catching the things you’d otherwise have to unlearn later.
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Lisa Spector, Piano Ninja
Juilliard graduate helping dedicated adult pianists who love challenging repertoire practice less while learning more.
I thought my competition days had ended more than 30 years ago. Apparently not. 🤷♀️ There are very few international piano competitions with no age limit. I only know of three.I've been recording for one of them this past week. I love the preparation. What I didn't love was what happened last week. The maximum submission length was 15 minutes, which isn't much time to make an impression. My plan was to submit Brahms's left-hand arrangement of the Bach Chaconne. It's an extraordinary piece,...
I started this weekly newsletter 6 months ago and have been searching for the right name for it, followed by a logo. And here it is, sitting at the top of your email. PRACTICE NOTESunfiltered. It didn’t go perfectly. I knew when I landed on the name (after 48 iterations) but I originally started with a completely different design direction. It just wasn’t landing. So I scrapped it and went somewhere entirely different before arriving at the logo you see now. And as soon as I had it, I knew....
Your score tells you when to pedal down and when to release. You know what it doesn't tell you? How slow or fast to pedal. 🐢 🏃♀️ That gap is where most of your pedaling decisions are happening on autopilot and you don't even know it. In this YouTube short from the recent 50 Shades of the Damper Pedal workshop, I'm playing 24 seconds of Debussy Reflets dans l'eau. I'm describing what to watch and listen for. Watch my foot. You'll notice it doesn't always move at the same speed. Sometimes fast....