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5 Signs a Piece Is Just Too Hard for You
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#piano #practice #classicalmusic • Hello everyone! Today's topic is how to figure out if a piano piece is too difficult / too hard to learn, so that it's best to set it aside for now and take another look at it at a different point in time. We as pianist all have dived into difficult - maybe, sometimes way too difficult pieces - and while it did help, the ideal goldilocks zone with the piano, as is also been researched with other disciplines, is something that is just over your current difficulty level (known as the Zone of Proximal Development). • This is a difficult (no pun intended) and subjective topic, because the term difficulty can apply to various things - what is difficult? the technique, the musicality, the memorisation, the pedalling, the tension and story-telling of the music, the phrase... as you can see, there is an endless number of aspects that can be counted to add to the difficulty of a piece. • However, there are some certain indications that it could be just too much for the moment - for example, if in it's entirety, the piece is so overwhelming, that you cannot seem to make any progress with it, or, that it takes an unproportionally large amount of time to make any progress, to play it a tempo, to figure out the right fingerings, and so on. • Therefore, here are 5 steps on how to gauge the difficulty of a piece, and some telltale signs that it's best to leave it be for now. • As always, any comments and questions are welcome. Please stay respectful to everyone in the comment section and consider others point of view to be different from yours. • 0:00 Introduction Caveat • 1:55 The 5 Signs • 13:20 Sign-off and Outro
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