• Practice in sections. Practice any sections you had trouble with first, hands separately and hands together, with music and with the metronome at a slow tempo, counting aloud.

• Practice "starting places", meaning practice starting at many different places on a page, so that you can easily rehearse with an accompanist, or easily go on in a performance, should you get off.

• Study the piece of music away from the piano for a few minutes each day. Notice what keys you are in, and the form of your piece.

• Practice larger sections, up to tempo, hands together with metronome, counting aloud.

• Finally, throughout the week, try to sit down several different times, "cold" meaning, not warmed up, or having practiced first, and play straight through your piece.

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Music isn't just learning
notes and playing them,
You learn notes to
play to the
music of your soul

Katie Greenwood