We're all busy people. We wish we have more time to practice. However do you find every
time you get the chance to practice you're just not making as great an improvement as you wish?
Hey I'm Jazer! By the end of this video, I want to teach you a counter-intuitive method of practicing
piano that gets you tremendous results for quite minimal effort. I teach this method to my weekly
students and I literally see them learn huge parts within five minutes of their half hour class. This
will be worth your time I promise. I call this the AAR Rule and it stands for "Absolute Accuracy
Rule". The Absolute Accuracy Rule is where you practice at such a slow speed; where you can
strike all the right notes with all the right fingers at 100% accuracy. And by 100% accuracy,
I really mean 100% accuracy. No mistakes. Before we get into the details, if you're a new piano
student here make sure you SUBSCRIBE to this channel. I share heaps of piano tips and lessons
to help you play piano better. So remember, the Absolute Accuracy Rule is where you play
it slow enough that you can play all the right notes with all the right fingers. Let's use Fur
Elise as an example. The final product of what Fur Elise should sound like, something like this...
But before we can play like that, I suggest for us to do the AAR rule which is to slow it
down sometimes to even completely forego the pulse and just focus on the right
fingers at the right spots. It should look something like this - find your positions,
slow down but make sure every note... every note you strike is correct. I
want to show you now a bad example of how I see lots of beginners practice Fur Elise.
I was probably exaggerating a little bit there but this is what I personally called gambling.
It's where you're not being 100% mindful about your notes. You're simply just trying your luck
with your notes and not thinking deeply about what the next note is. When people practice like that,
they'll often get nowhere. They'll sit down for half an hour. They'll try really hard but by the
end of it, they just feel demotivated. And you know before long they give up
piano altogether. With the Absolute Accuracy Rule, you also want to practice in really,
really, small sections so that you can have success with them. A small
section could literally be maybe just the start of Für Elise. For example..
As you can see there even such a small introduction part, I'm still being very
mindful and thinking really deeply about that it's - 5 - 4 - 5 - 4 - 5 - 2 - 4 - 3 - 2.
And once I have success with that, I want to probably repeat that several times. If you
want to take it even further, you should be aiming for seven successful times. That means challenge
yourself to play something successfully for seven times in a row. So let's say I'm working on...
So that'll be one time. And let's say if I am going for my second
time and I do something like this. Now if something like this happens,
what does that mean? That means perhaps the first time that I got it correctly was by
pure luck. And that's really hard to stomach but it's true. As a professional and honest pianist,
which you all are, you should try to shrink down the part you're practicing so that you're
gambling less. And you're having more deep thinking and success with it. For example...
Let's say I just focus on that.
I just try to coordinate everything. Play the right notes at the right times. Coordinate the
right and left hands when each hand comes in. If they come in together, if they come in at
different times. So this is the method you build step by step, sometimes note by note,
sometimes half bar by half bar, sometimes bar by bar. And if you have this strong
sense of discipline and working in this really deep way, you learn and master parts really,
really quickly. And what happens when you learn these parts really quickly, piano becomes really
fun. You're always making improvements. There's a sense of momentum you learn in masterpieces
within weeks. And then when you're done with that piece, you can move on then to your next piece.
My heart goes out to the beginner piano students who unfortunately don't understand this Absolute
Accuracy Rule. They struggle with practice for a long time gambling with their notes. You know
and eventually after weeks and couple of months they realize piano is no fun. They're not getting
anywhere and they just give up all together. So it's so important if you want to keep your
piano motivation, you want to keep improving, you must practice in a way that guarantees
that improvement. And I can promise you this is something you need to try - the AAR rule. Go and
try this Absolute Accuracy Rule. If you've tried something like this before, please let me know in
the comments. How you found it. Does it work for you? Does it not? Hope you learned something in
this video. I have loads of piano tips and lessons. I'll catch you in the next video.
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