My Practise Routine

1. Warm Up

• scales ( as fast as possible, 2 octaves up and back, both hands, seperate and contrary motion)
• scales (slow tempo, crotchet = 80 , 1 octave up and back, both hands, seperate and contrary motion)

2. Technique

• scales and exercises related to my recital pieces, at the same tempo of the pieces.

3. Strategies for practicing recital pieces

• Listen to a recording of the piece
• Play through once to get a feel for it.
• Go back to the start and work on it bar by bar.
• Practice slowly, at about crotchet = 60
• spend 10 minutes on each piece

I practice best when

I usually practice best afterschool, when I am relaxed. I usually pratice in short blocks of about 20-30 minutes 2 times a day. I practice in our spare room where we keep the piano, because it's too much effort to move it to another room. I usually have a metronome nearby if I feel like I need to use it, as well as my phone. My computer is right next to the piano so I can use it to record and to listen to music really easily. When I had one I always had my ipod with me. I practice best when my grandparents aren't home, because I don't have to listen to the complaining about how loud the piano is. So hard to make them understand that I NEED to have it loud to practice xD
When I start playing a song for the first time, I try to play it through a couple of times then I find parts that I have the most difficulty with, and work on them until I can play them with very little to no mistakes.
I practice on a random schedule, practicing whenever I feel like I can really be bothered :P

My First Blog

HI! I'm RoBdOg1231 :)
I am 16 years old, and I love to play the piano.
My grandpa (on my dad's side) played in a blues band called dangerous goods. I first started playing the keyboard in grade 5, and started playing the piano and learning how to read music in year 7. I started wanting to learn the piano when I found some keyboard teaching books in my grandpa's box in which he kept all his music. It taught me the basics, such as where middle C is, and it got me interested in playing the piano. So far I've learnt and made videos of Samson by Regina Spektor, A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton and Fur Elise by Beethoven.
I currently practise in a pretty off routine, practising whenever I feel like it, in blocks of about 20 minutes. I usually just practices pieces that I want to play, occasionally doing scales.
I am motivated by my grandparents, who encourage me and praise me when I play, as well as wanting to strive to do my personal best in music.