What is the most difficult when you practice the piano ( or other instruments) O!
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What I personally find difficult is transposition. Because I play jazz piano I have to think of the chord sequence not as a chord, but as a position in a scale - so I'd have to see I'm playing in C, and that if the chord pattern C F Am D G it is in fact I IV ii V I into V - not surprisingly that is pretty tricky, especially if I then had to put the whole thing up a semitone.
With guitar it is tabs that are most difficult.
I think some of the chords are quite hard to grasp and also the arpeggios.
I think it's keeping pace with the beat while moving your fingers, not looking at them, reading the notes, etc. I started playing the piano again after having to take some time off from it. It's a challenge. I love it but I'm at the point where I'm trying to gain speed, reading the music, trusting my fingers, separating the right and left hand in terms of how they move up and down the piano.
i play the drums the only thing thats kinda hard is a flayl (think thats how ma spell it) =]
Scales ....with one hand playing in reverse...
.....hmm... and some really fast arpeggio...too.
i play the keyboard
I play the cello and currently the most difficult thing for me is the fast-paced double stops (two notes at the same time). I'm getting the runs and the parts that are all the way down the fingerboard. It's the darn double stops that are killing me. Also, capturing the essence of the time period of my piece is hard. I have a very Romantic sound and I'm playing Haydn. I really have to work on lightening up my bow arm.
I also really have to work hard on intonation because my hands are unusually small. I should've played the violin, but hey? I love the cello. I actually have to drop notes or change passages occassionally because I physically can't reach both notes at the same time, even in thumb position. This doesn't happen often, but I do have to really practice extra hard for some octaves and jumps that cellists with larger hands can make without shifting.
But its all a challenge and its worth it. It's very rewarding to practice. Just you and your instrument exploring together.
~Lisa
I play piano, organ and trumpet. On an organ, octaves and chords are the hardest to play well (there is no way to connect them seamlessly without a sustain pedal). On a trumpet, this is impossible!
Apeggios can be a little harder than scales, in my opinion. It is harder to keep them in time because the thumb has to turn over, and it is more awkward in an arpeggio. I think that the hardest thing to really master is an effective tremolo, or fast repeating notes. The piano is not really designed for this.
On trumpet, it is easy to make the tongue do all the work. Normally, one separates the notes by articulating (saying "tu" or "toe" in the mouthpiece). To repeat a note quickly, it is easy to say, "Tu-ku-tu-ku" or, "Tu-tu-ku-tu-tu-ku." On a piano, it requires changing the finger that plays the note, but remaining on the same note.
Every instrument has things that it is naturally disposed to do. On harps, arpeggios are easy (and that is why it is called an "arpeggio" –?Italian for "harpage"). On organ, I guess you can get an octave pretty easily by selecting what stop (sound) you use. In all these cases, that is why practice is required –?to master the natural weaknesses of the instrument.
finding time to practice!!! guitar,piano,mandolin,bass,banjo,harmoni... flute,recorder,etc.
seriously though, scale practice, arpeggios,and the like. dont forget the metronome!
well i would have to say that what the hardest thing to learn the piano is learning where all the keys are and learning the songs you have to play.!
Anthony P thinks that when playing octaves and chords on the organ there is no way to connect them seamlessly without a sustain pedal
That is not at all true..You learn through special exercises, to slide your fingers, replacing them all the time with other fingering..You have to do it very subly so not to "cut" the sound on the organ...
With the necessary exercises you learn how to play smoothly and forget the sustain pedal or whatever !
Playing smoothly therefore, can be hard for unprepared organ players.
I play piano, and getting the rhythm right always gets me. Also, when there's a page turn, you're by yourself, and your fingers are flying all over the place . . .