Self Taught Mastery

projectself · 2015-05-06T15:31:58+00:00

My tip is not to post it here and just do it.

PIMPIN-AINT-EASY- · 2015-05-06T18:05:29+00:00

I have played piano for over 10 years, what I do is learn each hand well separately and then when you try and synchronize both hands go very very very very slowly and master the slowest speed you can that keeps a consistent rhythm, after that it will be easy to speed up because you have built the autopilot connection between your mind and your hands, the idea is to laser beam your focus on just one thing and that thing is slow but correct note playing and rhythm. Hope that helps .

Man-with-a-pitchfork · 2015-05-06T17:46:58+00:00

Before the age of institutionalised music schools, who taught pianists how to play?

Other musicians. For most of the famous pianists, their fathers were their first teachers.

Mozart

" In the fourth year of his age his father, for a game as it were, began to teach him a few minuets and pieces at the clavier."

Beethoven

Beethoven's first music teacher was his father. [...] Some time after 1779, Beethoven began his studies with his most important teacher in Bonn, Christian Gottlob Neefe, who was appointed the Court's Organist in that year.

Franz Liszt

At age six, Franz began listening attentively to his father's piano playing and showed an interest in both sacred and Romani music. Adam began teaching him the piano at age seven, and Franz began composing in an elementary manner when he was eight.

Brahms

Johann Jakob gave his son his first musical training. He studied piano from the age of seven with Otto Friedrich Willibald Cossel.

And, of course, Rachmaninoff himself.

When he was four, his mother gave him casual piano lessons, but it was his paternal grandfather, Arkady Alexandrovich, who brought Anna Ornatskaya, a teacher from Saint Petersburg, to teach Sergei in 1882.

I'm sure you can learn this by yourself. But for the piano as for many other skills, learning from somebody who already knows how to do it can be immensely helpful at the very least.

You don't have to re-invent the wheel every time you want to learn a new skill.

Sedac · 2015-05-06T15:46:13+00:00

I don't have any musical tips, but I do know that the psychological boost you will get from mastering this piece will positively affect every other aspect of your life - whatever you do, don't give up until you can play that shit with your eyes closed!

[deleted] · 2015-05-06T16:28:16+00:00

Treat the left and right as one unit. Same goes for the treble and bass sections of the score.

DalekJay · 2015-05-06T17:40:18+00:00

exact same boat as you here mate! but before Rachmaninoff I got some other songs. Chopin and Mozart are my all time favorite, and video game piano songs are great to play too like Skyrim theme. My main goals now are: Play a piano version of Jazz Suite n2 Shostakovich, and March of Swordmaster (from Rhapsody)

Shermanderland · 2015-05-06T17:49:34+00:00

I'm a guitarist and I still struggle with synchronization on new songs. I see it posted on all music subreddits but here it is again: Practice.

Title	Self Taught Mastery
Author	redpillcynic
Upvotes	21
Comments	11
Date	May 6, 2015 3:11 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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