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Practise Tips

These are tips which I have collected from television documentaries.

- When you play classical, you must play clearly as you are playing it in a theme (will be memorable).

- Warming up is very important, otherwise it will affect the notes.

- The basic piano techniques are scales and chords: 7th notes, octaves, stacattos and legatos.

- Biggest problem in scales is the "clanging " position.

- "Jump " is the most difficult piano technique.

- The most important classical composers are Bach, Mozart and Chopin.

Bach: Very interesting and develops polyphonic playing.
Mozart: Simple harmonies, so simple that you need to make it better with dynamics.
Chopin: Easy to fall in love with.

- When practising the Flight of the Bumblebee, practise slow to get the pronounciation of the notes, practise with stacattos.

- When practising Chopin, hands need to be really down. Rest hands on the piano, normal position, move your fingers 1, 2, 3 etc.

The following tips have been collected from Maksim himself by Lamia when he was in Thailand!

- Try to spend as much time as possible with the metronome so that your rhythm will be perfectly precise. Maksim also uses this tip to make original clssical pieces go well with the added experimental and techno sounds.

- If you are feeling nervous before the show, the best solution is frequent practise. You may visualize the audience and the piano postiton during the practise. This is so that if you walk up on stage, you won't get nervous or surprised because you've already known and prepared that they will be there.

- This is highly recommended. If you have a tape recorder, then it is very useful to record your own playing during your practise and listen to it later. That way, you'll hear your own mistakes which you may not have realised during your practise.

- If you feel bored whilst practising (Maksim admitted that he did feel bored during certain practises!), the solution is to set up a goal each time you practise. What do you want to accomplish? That way, you'll feel more motivated, making your practises more efficient and worthwhile.

For instance, Maksim himself sets his goal to make the performance perfect, so he feel motivated and willing to work hard for it.

- A seven hour practise may seem long and somewhat tiring. The tip is that you have to know your own strength. Set up a practise schedule. Maksim practises for 7-8 hours a day but he breaks up these hours into 3 sessions: two, 2 hour sessions and one, 3 hour session. He concentrates hard during the first 2 hour sessions and plays in a much more relaxed manner during the other 2 hour session.