Hi, welcome to Piano Lesson #13 and in this lesson, I will be showing you how to giddy up your practice time, so that you get an equal practice on almost all the aspects that we need to be working on.
Also, one of you guys—I forgot the name, actually because this was a while ago—he was asking me to teach how to site read a little bit better, and I thought that was a good idea.
I am going to do that since I am running out of ideas. I did not expect that my students would go this far so now, I am getting into the limitation of how much I can really teach without spending hours and hours making videos. Since I do not get paid for it, I have to do other stuff to pay my bills and stuff. I cannot devote all my time to lessons.
I was running out of ideas and things to teach. I think I might be able to do one lesson, maybe how to play a trail and stuff like that. I am not sure what else I can just teach because I am not sure if I could be able to teach harmony over You Tube. That would be hard. Harmony is an interesting local music video course. I do not think that is possible.
To get into it, how we are going to divide the practice time is—generally, you want to have a layout, and you have. For each of you, you might want to work on different things. Get a piece of paper, a pencil or a pen, whatever you want to use, and figure out what the total time you want to practice the piano for the day.
Let us say, you want to practice for one hour. I know some people may want to practice for an hour. Some people like me, an hour is not enough. Just figure out what is good for you in using your hour, and then you can take half the hour and expand it in different time segments for whatever you want. So, I am thinking that one hour is good for going in either direction.
If you are practicing for one hour, I would spend 15 minutes doing scales. These scales depend on your grade throughout. The 10 to 15 minutes of scales are to be spent going through your book.
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Where was I? There is a 10 to 15 minute of scales, focus on endurance and speed, because we are using that to warm up your fingers. You should apply and try to put yourself a little bit so you are building up your endurance, so that when you get into pieces, you can last longer and playing the next comes with more ease, because that is what scales are all about.
So, if you do not have a scale book, go to your local store or surf names until you can find a scale book that you can pick up or something like that. If not, you just use the scales that I showed you, D major and G major, and you can use the same patters to figure out all the other scales.
So, in 15 minutes, I divided them into scales like this. (Demonstration) That is the range from doing one octave to two octaves to three octaves. (Demonstration) We can have two octave sounds together, (Demonstration) or even four octaves sounds together. That is all about building up your scale level.
Then, you do a chromatic scale, (Demonstration) just like that, during one of your keys. Chords and arpeggios. (Demonstration)
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