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How to double your confidence with your piano pieces in half the time

helpful tips practice routines revolutionary practice methods Feb 05, 2025

  1. Keep essential tools at your piano – Always have a metronome, pencil, notebook, and post-its ready to go.

  2. Plan your practice ahead of time – This ensures you make the most of each session. [Watch this video if you don’t know how.] And make sure you’re realistic. [Like this.]

  3. Cut unnecessary exercises – Scales, chords, arpeggios, Hanon, or Czerny should only stay in your routine if they directly help you feel confident in your pieces. Otherwise, cut them or reduce to 5 minutes or less.

  4. Use the metronome correctly – It’s one of the best tools to develop consistency and confidence. [This videoteaches you how.]

  5. Count out loud – Do this from the very beginning stages of learning a piece to develop rhythm security.  [This video teaches you how.]

  6. Commit to one fingering early on – Write it in your sheet music to maintain consistency.

  7. Use the Post-It Method – Break your practice down into small sections with post-its to prioritize accuracy.  [This video teaches you how.]

  8. Reframe mistakes as learning opportunities – Instead of getting frustrated, get curious! Ask yourself why the mistake happened and fix it with intention.

  9. Strengthen all four types of memory – Filter your practice through this question: How can I ensure I’m reinforcing each type of memory every time I sit at the piano? [This video teaches you how.]

  10. Practice sight reading daily – This helps you recognize patterns in music quickly, stay in flow, and build confidence. It gives you a micro way to practice all of these steps on a daily basis (as opposed to over a longer period of time with your longer pieces) and so you’ll develop all of these abilities much faster alongside the confidence with your pieces. Want a proven framework for sight reading that minimizes mistakes and builds accuracy? This course gives you the step-by-step system!

Sight reading is the secret sauce behind beautiful and accurate piano playing that no one’s talking about!

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