The Most Common Issues For Beginners

LESSON 1 THE MOST COMMON ISSUES for beginners Home » Creative Practice Routines » Page 2 LESSON goals 0% Video TimestampsTick When Complete 1 Blending the notes 2 Understanding our weak fingers 3 Chords and Finger Control 4 The collapsing fingers 5 Those random notes are too loud! 6 Hiding your fingers under the keys…

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The Three Big Essentials To Get Started

LESSON 1 THE THREE BIG ESSENTIALS to get started Home » Creative Practice Routines » Page 2 LESSON goals 0% Video TimestampsTick When Complete 1 The Fingering 2 The notes on the piano 3 The wrists, arms and shoulders 4 The balance of tension and relaxation 5 Josef’s quick ‘non concert pianists’ guide to posture…

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Bonus – The ‘Play-Along’ Sessions

The Play-Along Sessions Welcome to the play-along sessions. Here you will find videos for each routine in the course where you can settle in and play along with me in real time at various different speeds. This should help you get used to the specific exercises in stages. Home » Creative Practice Routines » Page…

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Bonus – [NO EXCUSES] Creating Infinite Exercises Part 2

Bonus [NO EXCUSES] Creating Infinite Exercises Part 2 In this bonus lesson, we explore how to create infinite chord based exercises and how to plug them into your practice routine. Perfect for starting accompaniment techniques and getting your chords sounding more interesting. Home » Creative Practice Routines » Page 2 LESSON goals 0% Video TimestampsTick…

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Bonus – [NO EXCUSES] Creating Infinite Exercises Part 1

Bonus [NO EXCUSES] Creating Infinite Exercises Part 1 In this bonus lesson, we explore how to create infinite finger exercises and how to plug them into your practice routine. As well as how to get melodic with them and turn them into actual music! Home » Creative Practice Routines » Page 2 LESSON goals 0%…

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Bonus – Learning a Piece of Music From Scratch

Bonus The 3 Stages Of Learning a Piece of Music In this lesson, you will learn some techniques you can use to spice up how you can play your chords and how we can plug those exercises into the piano Hiit routine. Home » Creative Practice Routines » Page 2 LESSON goals 0% Video TimestampsTick…

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The Best Adult Piano Practice Plan

The Best Adult Piano practice plan Home » Creative Practice Routines » Page 2 Start here Discover everything you need to know about ‘The Best Adult Piano Practice Plan’ or what I like to call… The Piano HiiT Routine! This will be your foundation. Your structure thoughout the whole creative practice routines course. Start Creative…

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Spontaneousness and Creativity

Spontaneousness and Creativity This is probably the most useful lesson in this whole course. The ideas we cover are applicable to ‘anything’ you want to learn / practice. In this lesson, we explore the benefits of being spontaneous and adding creativity into our practice and I show you a specific example from each of the…

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Routine 5 – All of Me

ROUTINE 5 Using the Piano HiiT Routine To Learn a Popular Song In this routine, I show you how you can play ‘All of Me’ by John Legend. But more importantly, the principles of how we can use the Piano HiiT Routine to learn a popular song. Home » Creative Practice Routines » Page 2 LESSON…

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Routine 4 – Fingering

ROUTINE 4 Nailing Fingering (See what what I did with that title… ha… ha… hmm) In this lesson, you will learn 3 exercises you can plug directly into the piano HiiT routine which train fingering. These exercises are designed to get your fingers moving unpredictably and sound musical. Home » Creative Practice Routines » Page 2 LESSON…

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