how to learn difficult music FAST | 5 practice methods for learning new flute music
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- Learn how to learn difficult music FAST and how to practice effectively. In this video I explain the top 5 practice methods I use for learning a difficult piece of music quickly. These practice methods work well for ANY instrument, not just the flute! Let me know in the comments below if you already use any of these methods or if you use a method that I didn't mention!
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0:00 intro
0:38 two key practice principles
1:54 method 1: work up slowly w/ metronome
3:00 method 2: change the rhythm
3:44 method 3: add one note at a time
5:02 method 4: play it backwards
5:23 method 5: memorize the passage
5:55 combining methods
6:29 outro
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Share your favorite practice method below :)
Playing a passage with the lights off. It's more for memorization than anything but disabling one of your senses really helps you internalize the music.
I never thought of that, thats reallly smart.
Would closing my eyes have the same effect?
@@rachelvalentina1226 Surprisingly, no. I tried that too, but turning off the lights was just harder for me so I just do that.
The common "chunking" is also pretty effective.
I like to practice any difficult passages by:
1) tonguing 8x per note
2)then 4x per note
3)then 2x per note
4)then play as written
Also Flutter tonguing-these really help me a lot.
Great video! I have three additional methods that are helpful, if you ever want to try them out:
1. Doubling, tripling, or quadrupling the rhythm. This works best for passages of fast-passed notes. For instance, if the passage is an ascending D major scale in 16th notes, you could play 2, 3, or 4 notes on every pitch instead of one. This gives your brain more time to process the note changes, while enabling you to practice the articulation closer to tempo.
2. Isolating difficult passages. This is where I go through a piece and and pick out the 20 most difficult spots, usually no more than 1-2 measures long. I then copy the passages onto a piece of staff paper (usually by hand, but copy and paste on a computer works too), so that I am only concentrated on those spots and not the rest of the piece. Then I’ll practice each spot for three minutes, for a total of one hour on the moist difficult spots.
3. Physically turning your flute around to the left and playing the passage with opposite hands. This is the craziest method, but I swear it works. If you turn the flute around so that are playing to the left with your right hand on top and can learn the passage like that, playing it with the flute in the correct position is no problem at all.
I would be really interested to see you try these and hear what you think! Please make a follow up video of these strategies and others that people suggest.
I never learned to practice when I was younger, and as a consequence my technique on all instruments is terrible. Wish someone had taught me these tips early on! I can say from personal experience that your tip #1 is very accurate: playing wrong notes repeatedly during practice will train you to remember the wrong notes forever 🤦🏻♀️. In a related vein, it’s important to practice with correct fingering techniques as well instead of inventing your own to get through, otherwise you end up with muscle memory of clumsy fingering!
same, it's frustrating. I'm slowly trying to get myself there. I'm so happy to made this video. It's very helpful.
I never thought to play it backwards to help learn. I am definitely going to try that.
THANK YOU KATIE! I’m doing a recital in a few months and I am STRUGGLING with some of the passages in Carmen Fantasy
I am also working on Carmen Fantasy for my recital! :)
Loved this segment! Mainly because I’ve used all these practise techniques on that exact passage (love the Faure Fantasie)!! Another technique is to use different articulations - all tongued, all slurred, groups of 4 and 4, slur 2 , tongue 2 etc.
These methods and principles are the holy grail of practicing
Katie - this is WONDERFUL! So happy to see your expertise here.
Thank you so much this so helpful for solo and ensemble!🙏
OMG It helps me a lot!! You are the best thank you!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Thank you for sharing this! Very useful!
This is so good, Thank you! I use the last two the most and they'vre been very helpful in making me improve fast
Thank you for sharing! Fauré's Fantasie is a great example that I struggle and will use your tips!
Hi Katie. Thank you for sharing your methods! I used to chunk and vary rhythm - but I am going to use playing backwards as well.
Omg I literally just made a video similar to this without even knowing you made this- you’re a big inspiration to me!
Love this. I'm the same - super nerdy about practice techniques and don't my students know it! 😄 I will be showing them this video to reinforce what I've already taught them 👍
This is great! I usually teach band, but have been teaching all my classes piano during Covid, and it’s really forced me to consider different methods of practice, and it’s refreshing to know the methods I have used on my students are used by a great musician like yourself!
(Oh, and I was literally telling a student a few hours ago that practice is really just trying to find the solution to a problem. It’s like I watched your video in the past 😂)
♥️♥️♥️ I’m sending this video to my students ! Thank you so much ! It’s going to prove them that I ‘m not a crazy old teacher with old-fashioned methods ! 😜😂
thank you thank you thank you!! this is very helpful to me!
Great video and useful tips. I have used most of the methods regularly except no.4. It is so funny that I have never thought of doing this to learn and will now try to use it.
Thanks for this one. I play guitar/bass and I'm not a classical musician, but still very helpful.
I really need to build up the patience of doing stuff slow AND WITH THE METRONOME. It gets tedious quite quick. It's most likely very effective, but starting slow and not speeding up the tempo until next day... that sounds rough, and it is, AND I know it works. I heard our bass teacher at music school working a Celtic music piece on the violin on his time off in one of the rooms. He was there when I went to my lesson, he was still there going at it when I finished and went home. After some weeks we finally got to hear the piece at tempo and it sounded great and absolutely perfect. He was so disciplined it did sound fantastic even at the slow tempos.
practice makes permanent! that is so true!!!
I have a band assignment due today and I only really practiced in the past month and its quite a challenging piece, so procrastination really isn't helpful, but this was!! Thank you so much!!
OMG ITS BEEN A YEAR AND IM BACK FOR THE SAME ASSIGNMENT!! ITS JUST A DIFFERENT SOLO 😭😭. I’m never learning my lesson, am I?
this is perfectly timed. i have an audition coming up soon!! thank you so much!!
Love the video! Use all those methods with my students too :)
This was helpful ☺ thanks a lot katie 🙂
I'm just starting to play the flute, but I've been playing violin for 9 years, and I have to say, all of these methods work great and I've used them a lot. I definitely recommend that people try a few of these methods out.
I usually practice difficult passages using different articulations or rythmic patterns. I do this with scales arpeggios and finger exercises too. It helps a lot.
Awesome!
I often stress on the fact that i cant sight read it fast. So this is rather comforting. Thanks Katie
Katie, I am SO excited. I just bought my own flute!! I've been renting on for a while, but I just bought myself a Gemignhart (idk how to spell it) 30SHB! I'm getting ready for high school :)) also, thanks to you, I got it for a good price from FCNY!
I only played some difficult passages slowly. Very usefull methods.
So I already knew all of them but the backwards playing. I‘m using the memorizing and the changing rhythms a little bit too rarely, so thanks for the reminder! Another tip: when you have to play quick passages (for example a long passage with semiquavers only) just start by only playing the accentuated notes and then add the other ones. (E.g. 4/4, only semiquavers: just play the first note of every group of semiquavers so you have quarter notes. Then you could play every second note so you have quavers and then you add the rest. Works best when using the metronome)
P.S. Please tell me if you understood my explanation, English is not my mother tongue, so it was hard to find the right terms :)
I tend to mix all of these. Another method that might help is practicing the scale(s) and arpeggios associated with that piece.
hi Katie
this video was very helpful
thank you
That backwards theme is a good composition subject!
I clicked so fast!!
one thing I like to do is to reverse the tonguing. sometimes i will also not do standard technique or scales and just play sections from my pieces as if they were the exercises.
I've never heard of practicing backwards technique:o It sounds super brain-burning, and, considering that I am a pianist, my practice sessions are already super mentally demanding, because playing 4 independent voices at a fugue with your 2 hands is extremely tricky. IMAGINE A PIANIST PLAYING A TOUGH 4-PART FUGUE BACKWARDS, OMG.
You definitely wouldn't use playing backwards with a fugue, because that would make things more confusing. Maybe for long running passages.
Oh play backwards ! Who of thought. Good idea
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Wow so Beautiful video sister 💘💘🙋🙋🙏
Me at 2:59: That looks like something I've seen before... *Picks up sheet music*. Is the EXCACT same piece I'm playing right now. Wow, crazy
yaaaaay
Question: what is the music at the intro of your videos?
It’s the Godard Allegretto
@@fgorlando thank you!
@@sofiane2432 of course! I love that intro too!
I had my first flute lesson last friday and I love the idea of playing the music backwards.🤩😆 Than I'm learning 2 pieces instead 1 that I can play and when you just start you don't have a lot that you can demonstrate yet.
Are annoying me when I started to play string instruments I mess up somewhere and I go back and figure it out but you make a mistake somewhere you can always correct it anyway
I find very interesting and helpful watching your mouth while playing, not very often you are cloth to the camera. Thank you
I’m playing rush e in front of my school and I can’t go fast enough
As a rock musician, I always memorise everything because I can't read 😂
'if you can play it backwards you can play it forwards'
Zoom in video edit.
Also long long short short and short short long long