Practice Tips 

 

Try to practice 5 days of the week for a short time. If you are focused on what you need to practice, even for 15 minutes, you will be most efficient with your time.
 

Make sure that you practice the day after your lesson. Then you will remember what your teacher told you.
 

Look at the music and think about how it will sound before you play it. Think about what your beginning hand position will be. Look at where you will need to pause and prepare for something different.

Learn the songs in sections, and make sure that you have learned each section correctly. It takes more of your time to have to re-learn that section, so listen to how you sound as you play.
 

Make sure you are using the same fingerings each time. Learn each hand separately, using the appropriate keyboard technique to get the tone you want.
 

If you get frustrated, stop, and come back to the piano later that day.
 

After you have focused on practicing the lesson for 15 minutes, look ahead at a song, and try to play it. Or go back and play some songs that you already know.