As a somewhat continuation of last week’s post whereby I was encouraging you to take stock, I would like to spend some time focusing on metronome practice to ensure that you understand what it is, why we use it, how it can improve your piano playing and practice and how best to use one.
One of the most frequent criticisms that I can offer to all learners of the piano – whether self teaching or learning with a tutor – is that they are not necessarily given an opportunity to “take stock” before moving on. Therefore, all the habits of bad piano practice can carry forward and ultimately make a poor pianist of them, otherwise cause a complete roadblock and prevent them from progressing any further anyway.