Practice schedule

[korsol]

How long do you guys play each day? Does anyone know how to make overtones at the piano?

[molto-marcato]

I don't know if i understand your question properly, but if you hold down the left pedal only two of the three strings of one note are hit by the hammer. The third string then does produce some overtones as far as i know. Second possibility is to press down one key very very slightly without producing a tone, hold this key down and then press another key, lets say 1 octave higher und you wil notice the lower strings will start vibrating aswell und thus produce some overtones.
What exactly do you want to achieve with overtones?

[korsol]

I made one without knowing what I did. I just wanted to know what I did. Can't it get used in songs?

[molto-marcato]

Some pianists use the left pedal to create a special sound in ff or fff, besides that i don't know very much about direct use of overtones in piano music.

[overscore]

I do 90 minutes of exercises in the morning, then 2 hours or so of playing music later on, then an hour or so sightreading in the evening.

I think you can get overtones with an acoustic piano by hitting a key very hard and then pressing the damper pedal as soon as you release the key.

[Bob]

I heard someone call the fff chord-then pedal effect as "catch pedalling."  Someone told me you can get a sfz on a piano that way.

[imbetter]

like 5 hours total. im hooked =/

[korsol]

I wich I had the time to use that much time on the piano

[danny elfboy]

How long do you guys play each day? Does anyone know how to make overtones at the piano?

It doesn't matter how long you practice ...
or better yet ... what it matters is that you use your practice time to solve problems
It's wrong to think of practice time as X amount to spend at the piano
Think of it as focusing on some particular aspect or part of the piece you're practicing you've problems with and solving it
So ... it's an individual thing; as long as your practicing is productive because you've at the end accomplished something then it can be 2 hours or just 1 hour or 3 hours or 4
It just depends on how much it takes you to accomplish something
When you've accomplished it it's totally useless to keep repeating endlessly the same thing

[overscore]

I practice new techniques or those I haven't yet mastered, and lots of scales. I practice pieces I already know as well because, apart from enjoying them, you can never stop improving on your playing and going over familiar pieces leaves you free to think about touch, tone etc without worrying about the notes.

I also enjoy experimenting with different sitting positions, hand and finger positions etc and as a result sit further away and lower than I used to. What's good for one person isn't necessarily good for another.

[jozart]

If you're referring to the overtone series, you can demonstrate on the piano.  Let me see if I can get this right....you could start any note but its easy to use C. Press down but don't sound low C (two octaves below middle c). While holding low C, hit and release the C one octave above. You will hear the octave overtone which is the first partial. Then while holding low C, hit and release G below middle C. You will hear the overtone of the fifth which is the second partial. You can continue through the series and hear all the overtones but they get weaker as you get higher.
This is what gives tonal color to each instrument and actually anything producing sound. The presence and strength of overtones determines timbre.
Joe