4/19/2023 0 Comments Piano metronome![]() ![]() Once you have gotten used to using the metronome with scales you will want to apply this same practice to playing arpeggios, exercises and any pieces that you’ll end up working on. ![]() The regular beat that it gives us provides a framework that we can utilize to shut out anything other than our fingers on the keyboard and the steady drum beat of the metronome. The metronome can serve to bring these two aspects together because it connects with the rhythm part of our brains and our body’s energy system. We can’t do everything in our heads and we can’t do what we need to with our fingers and hands if our thoughts aren’t telling them what to do. That’s fine! Remember, this is to help bring you fully into your practice time so you can accomplish your goals.īeing ‘fully present’ in piano practicing means that our thoughts and body are working or practicing together. You may want to repeat this exercise a couple of times before moving back to what you were originally trying to work on in your practicing. When you finish, take another deep breath and just be still for a moment.Play through your scale up and down one octave – keeping your focus on each note and feeling the beats in each hand and finger as you move up and down the scale.Take another deep breath keep your focus on nothing but the beat of the metronome and your fingers moving along with that beat simultaneously…as if they were one.Listen to the beat of the metronome and feel them in your fingers at the same time you are “feeling” them in your thoughts.Take a long deep breath and as you do place your fingers over the keys that you are going to start playing the scale with.Now turn on your metronome and set it at a very slow tempo.īefore you start playing the scale…do this: Go back to a scale that you know very well and can play easily. (Doing this will actually help you accomplish your original practice goals!) Your goal in using the metronome for this specific issue is to help bring your thoughts and your fingers together instead of trying to perfect whatever you were first practicing on.When you notice this happening in your practicing - get your metronome out. If this is happening at the piano it’s probably also happening in other areas of our lives too. Our minds are not working with our bodies they seem to be doing independent things instead of working as a team and we can’t get the things done that we want to. When this happens, it is usually a symptom of being too busy, too tired, stressed out, and/or just living in a bit of a chaotic state no matter what the cause is. ![]() Have you ever sat down at the piano to start your practicing and a few minutes into playing you realize that your thoughts have been on something totally different than what you were practicing on? Even after several attempts to concentrate on your piano playing, your thoughts just won’t cooperate! ![]()
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