Our Active Repertoire is the music we can play with confidence, fluency, and expression, for our own and others’ enjoyment, and preferably from memory.
Pianodao’s Active Repertoire Project brings focus to this ambition, and offers the following seasonal sheets to help you track your progress:
The project is a free, non-commercial resource available to pianists and teachers internationally. It is equally suitable for players enjoying the piano alone and those learning with a teacher. And it can be incorporated alongside any other method, syllabus, or programme of study.
It can also be used as a positive alternative in its own right, and the quarterly Repertoire Sheets will help you recognise and chart regular progress.
Getting Started…
We often fret about the things we can’t do, the music we can’t play. It can lead to a negative spiral that leaves us feeling defeated and deflated.
But what if we recalibrated our expectations and turned our focus more positively towards what we can do, and what we can play?
The Active Repertoire Project is all about rediscovering our enthusiasm for playing our favourite pieces, developing confidence, and sharing the music we most enjoy with others,
The Project encourages piano players to develop their own Active Repertoire of three or four pieces which can be played any time, any place, without notice or embarrassment, and preferably even from memory.
By making Active Repertoire our top priority, we can:
- start our practice sessions positively, with music we enjoy
- more quickly memorise our favourite pieces
- overcome our anxiety and feel more at ease playing to others
The Active Repertoire concept is modelled on the goals and practices of successful performers worldwide, and built on the fundamental pedagogic values espoused by the greatest educators, right up to the present day.
Crucially, the Project offers an approach which aims to foster a lifelong love of music by developing intrinsic motivation, rather than the extrinsic motivation that underpins grades, competitions and tick-box progress sheets.
And importantly, the Active Repertoire Project sheets not only provide space for you to focus on your active repertoire, but also to reflect on and chart an overview of your broader piano journey, including technique, listening, future goals and aspirations.
To understand how you can develop your Active Repertoire right away, head straight to this article for more information:
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