One of the most important piano playing tips is to set aside separate times for piano practice and piano performance. Both practice and performance time are used to improve piano playing, but in different ways.

# Take a section, and play each hand separate until you can do it well. Then play it hands together until you can do that well.

ADVANTAGES:

Playing each hand separate is easier. The left hand can be weaker and just fumble along without being noticed too much. Giving it special attention will strengthen it.

WHEN TO USE IT

Usually you should only use this method if you are having trouble playing hands together, or having particular trouble with one hand in a certain section. In sections where you can, it is usually better to start out with both hands.
Hands separate practice works well with hymns, polyphonic pieces (for instance, fugues), and any piece where the hands are fairly independent.

# Finger groups.

Like Stops (see previous topic), but you group according to fingering patterns instead of rhythm. For instance, a C Major scale, right hand, could be practiced like this (notating finger numbers):

1 2 3 STOP 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 STOP 3 2 1
This is stopping at the end of each finger group. Another method is to go one note further, that is, stop on the first note of the new finger group, instead of the last note of the previous finger group. On the C Major scale, it would look like this:
1 2 3 1 STOP 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 3 STOP 2 1

ADVANTAGES:
The stop gives you time to evaluate, think, and plan ahead.
Helps you learn the fingering thoroughly.
Helps you memorize (you are breaking it up into small, easily digestible chunks).

Concentrates your attention on the most difficult point of any finger passage (the point where you pass the thumb under).
# Practice without pedal.
If a certain passage is usually played with pedal, play it without pedal.

ADVANTAGES:
You can hear things more clearly, particularly wrong notes and unevenness.
If it sounds good without pedal, maybe it will sound even better with pedal. You can visit learning piano-video lesson for more information.

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