How do I make practicing piano more fun?

Answer 1

stop practicing and do something fun then when you feel youre ready get back to practicing

Answer 2

I really don"t think practicing should be fun. It is not interesting but necessary. I am motivated to practice my piano several hours a day because I enjoy it (to some extent) and because I want to do well in competition and preformance. So basically I don't think there is any way to make practicing more interesting. What I do is after each an hour of practice I take a break and that makes it easier.

Answer 3

When I started music, I wasted a lot of time trying to practice. I'd do the same stuff over and over until I was sick of it and then just play stuff I knew, usually by ear. Nobody ever showed me how to practice. Nowdays, people have made a science of how to practice. Practice 'experts' or gurus hold seminars on how to practice. I bet if you typed 'how to practice music' into google, you'd find all kinds of info.
It doesn't hurt to sit down and decide just what your goals are. If you're taking lessons from somebody they've decided what your immediate goals are :). You should have a goal for each practice session, too. It's important to be specific about what you can accomplish at one time. If you're learning something new, you might try to play through it really slowly, just getting the notes, one hand at a time, at first. Don't be afraid to be really critical. When something goes wrong. Stop there, figure out what the problem is. It might be several things, that need to be worked out separately. The main thing is don't just keep playing through making the same mistakes. When you do that, you're learning the mistakes. Never let yourself make the same mistake twice without fixing it. When you do get it, repeat it several times the right way.
One thing I've learned about learning new stuff: after I get it sounding pretty good. The next day, when I go to try it out, it's like I've never seen the music before. I used to get really frustrated by this; but experience has taught me that's just the way my brain and fingers work. So, I just have to start over and learn it again. But, then on third day.....I discover that I've learned the piece! Now, I know that it takes me 3 times to get something learned.
There's got to be some music that you like to hear. It's alway nice to play things by ear that you've heard someplace, just for the fun of it. And it's nice to play things again that you've learned before. That's just to remind yourself why you're sitting down to the piano to begin with.
Enjoy the music. Don't be overwhelmed by the enormity of what you can't do yet. Have realistic goals. Perfect and polish the tiniest units of a piece of music and revel in that. Always look for the music in anything you play. If you can't face the idea of practicing, tell yourself that you're just going to practice for 5 minutes.

Answer 4

Well, no matter how much you love music, practicing is not about having fun. If you want to play for fun, you don't really need to practice much anyway. But, if you want to really increase your skill you have to take enjoyment from the strides you make when you do very meticulous and repetitive work. Practicing an instrument is one of the hardest kinds of work you can do, so you have to ask yourself if this career choice is really for you. I think learning to play an instrument is really beneficial in child development, but for a career choice it is only for a very select few.

Answer 5

nothing my friend practicing piano is hell on wheels. I would know since i have to practice everyday. But maybe if you try to find piano music to some of your favorite songs perhaps that may help....

Answer 6

Study the performances of Victor Borg and try to expand upon them... you'll have 'em in stitches... perhaps with a few of your own!
At any rate, practice makes perfect! Oh, and you can think up novel mnemonic devices for people of different ethnic or "lifestyle" backgrounds... e.g., "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" could be, for a Chilean, "Each Galapagos Bird Dies Flying." H-mm-mm, what could it be for the Gay Community... I wonder...

Answer 7

My suggestion to you is you can try to play with your piano a famous songs.I think you can get more fun from that.

Answer 8

there loads of fun things you can do! go to the park shopping Festivals camping long weekend away go out for a meal cinema swimming lazing round together! day trip to London

Answer 9

as they say if you love what you are doing you will not get tired of doing over and over again as they say"practice makes perfect" and feel the keys with your fingertips the ebony and ivory keys and let your heart and soul feel the rhythm of the music of what you are playing.

Answer 10

practice song that you like! Song from movies you like, or get sheet music from your favourite songs! It will make it much more fun.

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