| How can you create and keep your motivation to play | | | | home and maybe you will stimulate others in your |
| the piano? In other words, how can you increase and | | | | family or among your friends to play on their |
| keep the joy of playing the piano? The cause that | | | | instruments in such a setting. Of course you have to |
| made you start playing in the first place! | | | | plan ahead in order to suggest a performance and in |
| 1. Before setting goals | | | | order to prepare yourself. |
| Sometimes the reason why we don't keep our piano | | | | 5. But if you don't like to perform? |
| playing goals is that we haven't been honest with | | | | You can actually practice the art of performing on |
| ourselves when we set the goals. Before setting the | | | | your piano without people present. One way is to use |
| your goals you have to decide why you want to play | | | | your imagination and pretend that you perform in front |
| piano. Make an honest survey of your assets and | | | | of others. If you want to help your imagination a bit you |
| wishes in the area of piano playing. | | | | can put empty chairs in front of you representing the |
| 2. Setting goals | | | | audience. |
| In order to set goals that you will actually work | | | | On such an occasion you have to exercise self |
| towards you have to be honest with yourself. Do I | | | | discipline and play those pieces in your actual program |
| really want to accomplish these goals. Will I really feel | | | | from beginning to end. If you would make a mistake in |
| good when I reach my goals? | | | | front of a public, what would you do? Probably you |
| 3. Having a repertoire | | | | would want to minimize the effect of this mistake and |
| One common reason for starting to play the piano is | | | | just play on. This is what you have to practice even in |
| to be able to play the pieces of music you like. This | | | | this setting. |
| means that as you learn to play piano, a goal might be | | | | This will create self confidence in your ability to handle |
| to learn a number of piano pieces, let's say five | | | | mistakes and will also help you find weaknesses you |
| melodies, by heart so you can play them in any setting. | | | | can improve upon in your playing. |
| These five pieces of piano music is to be learned so | | | | This is also an excellent time to record your |
| well that you don't have to worry if you are asked to | | | | performance for later evaluation. The act of recording |
| play. | | | | is like having a critic in the public. |
| One reason for having a repertoire with piano pieces | | | | 6. Listen to piano music |
| throughoutly rehearsed is that you can feel that you | | | | You have to look upwards in order to climb to a higher |
| perform at the top of your ability. | | | | level in your piano playing and this will be accomplished |
| 4. Always perform | | | | by listening to piano players on an higher artistic level |
| One great way to create motivation to practice on | | | | than yourself. |
| your piano is to always perform in front of other | | | | At last a piano playing qoute from an unknown author: |
| people in different ways. A way to creating | | | | "One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; |
| momentum to practise your piano repertoire is to set | | | | another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at |
| up an informal concert with a couple of pieces in the | | | | fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and |
| setting of your own home. | | | | the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it |
| Your family will be your public. There are many | | | | will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give |
| occasions for having someone performing music in the | | | | forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault. |