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How long should I practice piano every day?
Are you not getting the results that you want?
Hi,
I'm Jazer and I'm here to answer the question,
How long should I practice piano?
Let's go.
The first thing I want to talk about today is consistency.
Consistency is so important
when it comes to improving
in your piano learning.
Let's say you set yourself to practice one hour daily.
Make sure you are actually practicing
one hour every day as opposed to squeezing
all that practice
into that one day before
your
lesson.
For example,
if your lessons on Thursday,
don't cram six hours onto Wednesday.
It just doesn't work as well
as compared to practicing one hour
every single day of the week.
And there's a really good reason for this.
That's because you need to sleep
on your practice to get better the next day.
It's a really funny thing that happens.
When you do your practice for the day,
sometimes you've realized like
nothing really gets in after a while,
but the moment you take a nap
or the moment you sleep for the night
and you come back the next day,
suddenly,
the things that you're learning suddenly goes into your hands
and you start to be able to perform
them without you consciously knowing
you've
jumped that hurdle.
So remember
spreading your practice over the,
over the week
because what you want to do is to practice in little blocks,
sleep on it,
and it will grow better the next day.
And if you do this consistently for every day of the week,
you're going to see some massive improvements over the year.
There's a study that showed that students who
practice 15 minutes a day,
four, five days a week,
eventually gave up lessons a lot more
than students who practice 30 minutes a day
for five days in their week.
And there's a good reason for that.
When you're practicing, not a whole lot,
guess what happens to your progress?
It's not going to be very good.
It's not going to be a lot.
So what happens is you put in all
this time and effort and money into your piano lessons,
and you realize you're not getting
that much from it over the weeks and the months
because you're not putting the time
into practicing before you go back to your piano lessons.
Remember the magic of piano lessons
happen at home.
The magic of piano lessons happen at home.
What that means
is
When you go to your lesson,
you get feedback
and you get knowledge from your teacher
and what you're supposed to do when you go back
is to practice all these things
so that
by the next lesson you are ready to go.
You're ready to receive
new wisdom and new techniques
and new ideas for your
next week's practice.
When you go for a piano lesson,
you got to know
that that panel lesson is only
effective
if you go home and you
put in the work
daily
before your next lesson comes.
The next thing I want to talk about is the quality of your practice.
A great violinist once said,
"Practice with your fingers and you'll need all day.
Practice with your mind...
...and you'll get it done in one and a half hours."
Now, the message behind this quote
is that
when you sit on the piano to practice,
be really aware that your time spend there
is extremely mindful time
and not mindless time.
When you sit on the piano,
be aware not to
play through your music for the entire hour
without really realizing
what you're doing, if that makes sense.
I see students do this all the time where they
practice through their piece
and I can see they're not giving
real thought into,
what can I do better here?
Perhaps
that's a forte and that's a piano.
Am I bringing this part out?
Am I bringing that part out?
Then not having
mindful thought processes about their practice.
They're sort of just
running it through for the sake of practice.
I want you to think real in depth into your practice.
Ask yourself some critical questions.
What can I do better here?
Perhaps this section I'm not so good at.
Why don't I do this section 10 times now,
before I move on to the next part?
Ask yourself critical questions,
every time when you practice.
Try not to run through the piece
for the sake of running through the piece.
In conclusion,
I think that your practice time is going to really depend
on your life situation
and your commitments to a variety of things.
But my recommendation to students
is that they practice every day
for at least the length of their lessons.
So if
Tom has a one hour lesson every Friday,
I'm going to expect that Tom
by next Friday
that he's locked in
six or seven hours worth of practice.
Cause he will,
let's say if he doesn't practice on Friday,
I will expect him that from Saturday
till next Thursday he would have practiced six days.
So six hours worth of practice before he comes back.
So I hope that's been helpful for you.
Keep up the practice, because the practice
is going to lead you to greatness.
When you do your practice consistently,
over time, you're going to see some"
really great things happen for you with piano.
So just stay onto it.
Great things are coming your way.
How long do you practice the piano every day?
Let me know in the comments below.
I love to find out a little bit about your piano life.
My name is Jazer,
remember to like and subscribe to my channel
and I'll catch you in the next video.
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