Comments on: When a Student is Nervous About a Challenging Piece…

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By: Tammy

Tammy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:09:21 +0000

I have one or two students who also get the “deer in the headlights” look or say “this piece is too hard for me” (cringe) when they see a potentially challenging piece. So I, too, take a similar path and whisk them to my dining room table along with their music and a few ’silent keyboards’ (those plastic 2-octave things). We sit out there and slowly break the piece down: time signature, potential problem areas, and then (depending on the student), we take it one hand at a time and look for and play all the similarities. At first, we take the rhythm very slowly and focus on getting the notes and potential jumps right. Then we will go back and get the rhythm down if necessary. After playing it “dry” at the dining room table, they feel so good about themselves and every time say, “That’s not so hard after all”…and we go back to the piano to play it on the keys. Happiness!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:02:56 +0000

Mike,
Yes, they must have accuracy when moving, or we don’t introduce the notes.

Having them move fast gives them confidence as well as getting them in the right place. It helps once we introduce the notes because they don’t have to think about where their hands should be. They’ve already mastered that, and now they can just focus on the notes.

-Rebecca

By: Mike Saville

Mike Saville — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:47:00 +0000

Interesting tip, kind of a sideways distraction that is practice related. I like the idea and I think if used sparingly could be a really useful addition to the teachers armoury.

You make no mention of accuracy? Do you take account of this? No point moving really, really quick if the hand position or notes is going to be wrong.

The concept of getting students to ‘drill’ is good. I would question if I would want them aiming to be as fast as they can right from the off . . .. hmm . . . . I’ll mull this one over.

Thanks for the post though – thought provoking.