The BEST Way to Learn a New Piano Piece QUICKLY: This Will SAVE YOU TIME!

📚 PIANO PROF AMAZON STOREFRONT:

This video is about the best way to learn a new piano piece.  When you start a new piece, it's essential to have an organized approach to learning new music. This is in order to avoid spending a lot more time learning the notes of a piano piece than you really need to, so that you can stop feeling like you're practicing and practicing without making much progress on your new piece at the piano.

In this video, I talk about sensory memory, and how to encode new information  into the  short-term and eventually the long-term memory.  I discuss the concept of "chunking" when learning a new piano piece, and why chunking is the most efficient way  to approach a piano piece that's brand new. And I also talk about how what we do at the piano is a physical combination  of motions  that need to be  repeated a sufficient number of times  in order for our  short-term memory  to hang onto them and to eventually encode them into our longer term memory.  

Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:26 How the brain processes new information
3:03 Learning music compared to other types of learning
4:49 Chunking
5:54 Limitations of the short-term memory
6:57 The overlap between playing the piano and sports
7:40 How small should the snippets be?
8:27 Why breaking things down is not as intuitive in music as in other kinds of learning
9:25 Practice in musical gestures
10:33 Summary

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[dominic]

Great video, well structured without rambling, padding or adverts. Thanks!

[kellyl]

This makes total sense and now I get it. I’ve always insisted on just playing the entire piece and expected to get it memorized eventually. Thank you so much for this!

[TheTmackey]

Dear Prof, you have come storming back with a priceless lesson. One example of what makes this so valuable is the way you illustrate "musical gestures" by going to the score and outlining those gestures/chunks.

All this plus mind maps!

Thank you so much!

Tom

[jasond]

Wow, I just loved this video and your method! Everything you said really makes sense.
I used to struggle for 3-4 months just to learn to play a short 4-page piece (advanced level) without mistakes.
It took me at least 2 years to really learn and play the first 3 Ballades and the first 2 Scherzos of Chopin.
Now with your method, I was able to pick up the 4th Chopin Ballade, the 3rd Scherzo and several of his Etudes, all within 6 weeks. Of course, I still have a lot of work and practice to do, especially with the expressions, pedaling, timing, etc. But it took me such a short time to learn something that would have earlier taken me more than a year.

All that you explained really makes a lot of sense and is 100% helpful.
I would try play a whole piece one day, and then the next day I couldn't remember anything, it was just a lot of wasted time. Breaking everything down into tiny sections really helps imprint the notes into our memory.
I wish I had been taught this method right from the beginning. Thank you so much!

[NimeuMusic]

A very helpful video, thank you! A video on how to structure your practice routine as an adult hobbyist would be really cool too!

[valodaslanian]

Hi Doctor ! The way I learned . How to ply a piece by my self is first focus on Rhythm and second ply first a few bars and then go on the rest :that really helps me to understand the whole song

[Bigdog]

So true. I am a beginner to piano. And I discovered this on my own. I am learning to play All of me by John legend. At first I tried to learn large chunks of the song at the same time say 10 bars. I played them over and over and still had a hard time remembering. But then I broke it down to one bar at a time and that helped tremendously.

[oscalicious]

Thank you so much for your help, you’re a great teacher!

[SwapneelGhosh]

Wow! Thanks for reaffirming my beliefs on practice and memorization. I’m self-taught at the piano and I’ve been subconsciously learning pieces this way all along the way for the last 14 years. As a result of being self-taught a tendency of mine is to feel insecure about my approach, glad to know I’m not wrong. :)

[Maria-gkyb]

Thanks for placing this link in this week’s newsletter. I missed it the first time you posted it.
And yes
The quote you posted is perfect:

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
- Mother Teresa

[BalatonDreamer]

"Practice in musical gestures" - what a useful lesson! And the summary at the end was really well organized. Thanks! And, welcome back to your house and your own piano - I love coming home after a time away, even when it's for otherwise fun activities (and remodeling isn't fun, though I'm sure you like the result).

[thepianoplayer]

Great tips for learners at any level.
I've seen learners who quit after a year or 2. Wish everybody would learn pieces in small sections from day 1. Probably too late for those who already quit.

[monicaconsigliereLavieenfleur]

Thanks. I have always broken down passages when I was learning at school and I started yo apply the same method to music. I started few days ago a new Chopin Nocturne and that is exactly what I did. I am still on the fist page as there are a lot of polyrythms

[lauraanthony]

This is helpful in working with my kids on their music assignments between lessons. Thank you.

[LiquidTurbo]

This was such a great video. Subconsciously I know what I need to do, but having you spell it out in such a straightforward and scientific way makes it really easy to understand how I should tweak my piano practicing methodology. Thank you so much.

[ignaciogianola]

Amazing video information!
I think, we should be add the harmonic análisis of the pieces. It helps to you to memorize. Thank you!

[jadeitejade]

Thank you Prof, I learn a lot from your tutorials. You are an awesome Teacher. thank you

[leehoward]

Chord progression is a key to understanding how a song is written. Then you just follow the sound of music and find keys on piano. You don’t want to memorize anything in a hard way

[mamacita]

Wow! Thank you for the video. This is pure gold and a lesson that everyone should re-watch multiple times to really learn it. Good repetition is the key! 🤓

[lovepiano]

Thank you, professor. I'm a working mom and don't have lots of time to practice each day. I'm taking an hour lesson for hobbies each week. My teacher just finished teaching me a new song, Chopin op20 C sharp minor, in two lessons. I feel stressed since I can't play it smoothly after two weeks. I'm going to use your method focusing on a few more difficult measures. My reading and muscle memory are normally good, and I can memorize a new piece in a short time. I need to work on more accurate polyrhythm.