5 Ways To Improve Your Piano Playing

If you are a piano player and or looking for piano study tips to improve your piano playing read these tips here below. Are you playing the piano? It´s a great and rich instrument but before you can really start playing the great masters or that great jazz tune lots of practicing needs to be done... For this article I want to mention 5 ways to improve your piano playing.

1. Find a Qualified Piano Teacher

Don´t fall into this trapp from other people saying you don´t need a piano teacher. I highly recommend you grab your local paper or phone and find a qualified piano teacher. Why? Most importantly, you will learn much faster and eventually play much better then if you have to do this all by yourself.

2. Practice Regularly

Never practice when you are tired you cannot focus and concentrate well enough to make good progress.
Practice Regularly Piano playing requires good coordination and music reading skills. To get best results with your piano playing practice daily for at least 20-30 minutes a day.

3. Set Realistic Goals

When studying your song, set realistic goals. Find a song that is right, and fits your musical knowledge and skills. For example if you are studying a Czerny etude make a goal to learn a new page every day or even a few measures depending on your level and skills.

4. Improve Your Sight Reading

If you have no trouble reading music notes you learn a new song much faster. Keep working on your sight reading skills by making it a routine to start your daily practice with playing a few bars of a totally new piano piece.

5. Read Music literature of the Composer

When you are playing a Mozart sonate and you don´t know anything about his life its more difficult to play with a good "character". Learn all about your favorite composer and try to find a good approach to play his/her songs.

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Adam Gyorgy Plays Prokofiev’s Scherzo

Igor Stravinsky characterized Prokofiev as the greatest Russian composer of his day. Prokofiev was also an excellent pianist, and often performed his own works.

Some of his solo piano music performances were recorded for HMV in Paris in 1935, and he was also soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra in the first recording of his third piano concerto, recorded in London on the HMV label in 1932. These recordings are now available on CD on the Pearl and Naxos labels.

In this encore from a recital at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 2005, a young Hungarian ”rising star” pianist and Steinway artist Adam Gyorgy displays his sensitive interpretation with a steady yet lively rhythmic sense of repetition, cultivated contrasts and lovely clarity of articulation.

Grand Piano

Grand pianos are those which stand on three legs and whose strings run horizontally. (The exception is the so-called "square" grand, an antiGrand pianos are those which stand on three legs and whose strings run horizontally. (The exception is the so-called "square" grand, an antique piano which stands on four legs.)

Grands differ mainly in their length-that is, the distance from the very front edge of the piano to the very back edge of the curved end. Practically speaking, the larger (longer) the grand, the better the tone. The smallest grands are slightly less then five feet from front to back, and are sometimes referred to as "baby" or "parlor" grands. The largest are the concert grands, at about nine feet in length.que piano which stands on four legs.)

Grands differ mainly in their length-that is, the distance from the very front edge of the piano to the very back edge of the curved end. Practically speaking, the larger (longer) the grand, the better the tone. The smallest grands are slightly less then five feet from front to back, and are sometimes referred to as "baby" or "parlor" grands. The largest are the concert grands, at about nine feet in length.