The #1 Thing You Can Do to Improve Your Piano Playing!

0:00 Intro and commentary
0:34 Which students make the best progress?
1:28 Choice of repertoire
2:58 Taking a long-range view of learning the piano
5:56 The necessity of releasing the ego as a student (my own story)
7:54 The most important thing you can do to help your teacher
11:54 How to gauge if a piece is right for you
13:17 Avoiding learning by rote
13:57 Develop a wide range of skill through varied repertoire

Music in the intro and outro is Earl Wild’s Etude no. 1 after George Gershwin’s “Liza”

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