Piano learners who teach themselves can do incredibly well — I’ve seen many of them go through my free beginners’ piano course and watch my other piano tutorials here on YouTube. However, self-teachers tend to have particular problems that I see turn up time and again. In this tutorial I go through the ten most common problems I see self-taught pianists dealing with, and offer solutions.
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00:00 Piano Self-Teacher Problems
01:10 1: A Tendency To Race
02:42 2: Lack of Direction
04:06 3: The Tick of Doom
05:15 4: Scales & Exercises
07:09 5: Not Getting Feedback
09:03 6: Inefficient Practice
10:17 7: Unknown Unknowns
11:47 8: Overestimating Weaknesses/Underestimating Strengths
13:09 9: Lack of Reinforcement
15:02 10: “It’s Just Pressing Buttons”
16:06 What Next, Self-Teaching Pianists?
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