Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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However, the 20 pieces per year is a good number to compare to. Because it will bring up several questions, the most important being "How can I make the learning and practising process more efficient?" If I were your piano teacher, I would not be happy with you taking such a long time to learn those pieces.
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Read More »Bernhard (the most (in)famous member of these forums) wrote one should be able to learn at least 20 pieces per year. Of course, the number of pieces one learns in one year is very personal. It depends on the length of the pieces, the difficulty of the pieces, current ability of memorisation and the way one practises. For instance, at my current level I could probably learn over a hundred of those eight bar pieces you find in beginner books, because they pose no technical challenges, they are probably in C major and they are very short. If you were to give me Chopin's Fourth Ballade, it might take me several months because of the technical challenges. However, the 20 pieces per year is a good number to compare to. Because it will bring up several questions, the most important being "How can I make the learning and practising process more efficient?" If I were your piano teacher, I would not be happy with you taking such a long time to learn those pieces. It would be understandable if they were way out of your current level of technique and you had bad motor skills and you didn't practise, but you practise 7-10 hours a week. I would then ask "Are you actually practising during those 7-10 hours or is it just playing?" I would then get you to film yourself practising and spend a whole lesson on how to make it more efficient, pointing out places where you are going wrong so you can be aware of this and learn to be self-sufficient. Having a mixture of really easy pieces and harder pieces is important. The easier ones you'll be able to learn faster, thus have a better sense of progression and more pieces to play. The harder ones boost your technique and are rewarding when you finally get there.
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Read More »White Christmas According to Guinness World Records, Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" (1942) as performed by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single worldwide, with estimated sales of over 50 million copies.
This is a compendium of the best-selling music singles. The criterion for inclusion is to sell at least ten million copies worldwide. The singles listed here were cited by reliable sources from various media, such as digital journalism, newspapers, magazines, and books. According to Guinness World Records, Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" (1942) as performed by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single worldwide, with estimated sales of over 50 million copies.[1] The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later". Guinness World Records also states that double A-side charity single "Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" (1997) by Elton John (rewritten as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, rather than Marilyn Monroe in the original 1973 version), is "the biggest-selling single since UK and US singles charts began in the 1950s, having accumulated worldwide sales of 33 million copies". This makes it the second-best-selling physical single of all time.[1] Two best-selling singles lists are displayed here relating first to physical singles (mainly CD and vinyl singles) and second to digital singles (digitally downloaded tracks which first became available to purchase in the early 2000s).
Eddie Van Halen often used economy/sweep picking as well as fast alternate picking.
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