
you know, they play on a high end Clavier in order to produce note and performance data into a midi format.
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Now that Yamaha is sponsoring the eCompetition annually worldwide, I download all of the contestents’ performances. I was pre-occupied with scouts, ham radio and other stuff.īut now and over the many years that I have been involved with digital piano research, I am particularly aware of the top performers out there now and listen to it more than jazz which I am more of a jazz or improv pianist anyway. my mother was a piano teacher but that didn’t matter. growing up I did not take very many piano lessons. but your opening video regarding classical music is very good. Hi Robert – I really enjoy your presentations. There is great reassurance in performance when you know your scores on this level. I make sure I can get through difficult sections again and again until things are totally clear. Whenever I play a recital I play my music in my head constantly before the performance. If you do this, you will have mastered that piece of music better than any other piece you’ve played before. Play as far as you can go without stopping and when you have to stop, refer back to the score and start again until you can play the entire piece from memory away from your instrument. Here is a great exercise for you: Take a piece you are very familiar with, remove the score, and try and play it mentally. You may be depending upon tactile memory on some passages and you may realize that you don’t actually know the music as well as you thought. Learning your music mentally away from your instrument will help you identify problem spots you didn’t know existed before. By doing this you will be able to hear the music exactly how you want it to sound so you can develop your performance. Imagine the performance in great detail, every sound and action. However, you should continue practicing even when you are away from your instrument. To my surprise, the performance ended up being the best I had ever had by far! But how can this be?ĭon’t hop into bed with your musical scores just yet! You have to develop technique and playing your instrument is essential. I ended up taking all my scores into bed with me and I practiced mentally. Determined to succeed despite my physical ailment, I tried something new. Needless to say, this was not enough time to practice.


An hour and half a day is about all the practice I could handle – and that was about how long the program was. I had become very weak but was determined to play the program.

In college I had come down with mononucleosis when I was scheduled to play a solo recital. In fact, recent brain scan tests have found that there is no difference in brain activity between someone playing an instrument or just thinking about playing an instrument!

While the action of playing an instrument has a physiological component, learning and practicing is much more of a mental experience than anything else. While this might sound silly, learning to play music mentally is one of the best practice methods.
