Personal Practice Reflection

PERSONAL PRACTICE REFLECTION
Name of the Student
Name of University
Author Note

I reflect upon the things that I have been able to learn throughout my piano practice. My
main focus is towards analyzing one of the major challenges that I faced during my practice. One
of the crucial anticipated challenges in my learning process is staying motivated to practice the
technique skills. The piano technique refers to the ability to match the right sound with the right
time. In order to nurture this skill a great amount of patience, hard work and dedication is
required. To stay motivated towards slowly developing the perception of sound and rhythm
constantly is a tough task and requires patient nurturing of personal skills.
The challenge is in regards to motivate myself to learn a set of things that would help me
in my piano practice. I cannot stay motivated as I feel a lack of confidence when it comes to
getting out of my comfort zone. Learning about various types of sounds and their rhythmic
elements and focusing on recreating the same is a difficult task for me (Johnson, Snyder and
Kraus 2017). Some of the techniques I thought about using for enhancing my piano skills are
learning the music that I love and improving my perception of music. This helped me to stay
focused in my piano practice. Next, mastering a particular technique and moving forward from
there was important. I believed in setting milestones and motivate myself to achieve these
personal milestones, like being able to develop a particular music piece part by part. I would also
need to find out the right keyboard spot. Another important factor will be to track my progress
(Eriksson et al. 2017). This will help me to know how far I have reached and understand my
shortcomings.
One particular musical work that I am interested in is “A little night music” piece by
Mozart. This particular piece is simple and effective to master my piano skills. Initially, this
music piece could be a stepping stone for learning better technique skills. My personal practice is
focused on harmonizing the tones. I use this piece to improve my technique and prepare for the