🎥 Workshop Highlight — Playing Fast Music Calmly
Most pianists try to force speed — but real fluency isn’t built through pressure. It’s built through calm coordination, developed step by step.
In this short highlight from our Beating Piano Frustration — How to Practise Without Losing Heart workshop, we look at how to play fast music without tension, and how to grow speed naturally instead of fighting for it.
💡 Key idea: “Fast playing is a by-product of calm playing.”
🎯 Try this next time you practise:
1️⃣ Choose one short fast passage (even a bar or two).
2️⃣ Play it at your most comfortable slow tempo — with no tension at all.
3️⃣ Stay there until it feels smooth, light, and balanced.
4️⃣ Only then, increase the tempo by a tiny amount — keeping the same sense of ease.
5️⃣ If tension appears, slow back down immediately.
This is how you build speed that lasts — through consistency, not strain.
👇 Watch the highlight below, then try this approach on your current piece. Notice how much more relaxed and in control your playing feels when “fast” grows out of “easy.”
(Full workshop replay → Classroom → Workshop Replay Library → “Beating Piano Frustration”)
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🎥 Workshop Highlight — Playing Fast Music Calmly
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