Common mistakes in piano playing

[pianoplayjl]

What are some mistakes you observe in pianists and perhaps even yourself? We can learn a bit from this....

Here are mine:

Ignoring mistakes and pretending they never happened

Repeating myself, ie. hesitancy

Making the left hand drown out the right hand

Pedalling in the wrong spots

Doing hands together earlier when you are supposed to do hands separate

Playing like a robot

missing notes everywhere

JL

[ted]

Most of my playing faults, which are numerous, all stem from the same thing - a tendency to expend far too much physical energy and effort in the cause of the music. I am much better now than when I was young but I still have to learn to work more from the mind, to think more quickly of the easiest way to achieve a musical effect, and to avoid regarding a piece or an improvisation as something akin to an obstacle course.

[iansinclair]

Mine are just the opposite!  Since I play almost entirely for my own pleasure these days, almost all the mistakes I make -- and they are legion -- are a result of simply being too lazy to go back and practice things I know darn well I ought to practice .  Sigh...

[pianoplunker]

What are some mistakes you observe in pianists and perhaps even yourself? We can learn a bit from this....

Here are mine:

Ignoring mistakes and pretending they never happened

JL

There ya go. Problem solved

[pianoplayjl]

There ya go. Problem solved

I only put that there after pondering for a while what mistakes I make. Sometimes I make mistakes without myself knowing that I made one. I would never have thought that off the top of my head since that is something that is like a habit; something I always do in lessons and practice sessions so that I can get through the piece faster. I have to unlearn that bad habit but it will take a while....

JL

[pianoplunker]

I only put that there after pondering for a while what mistakes I make. Sometimes I make mistakes without myself knowing that I made one. I would never have thought that off the top of my head since that is something that is like a habit; something I always do in lessons and practice sessions so that I can get through the piece faster. I have to unlearn that bad habit but it will take a while....

JL

Yes, practicing mistakes can happen to me too. For me it is a matter of  being impatient and even telling myself a little flub here and there wont hurt.  At that point I have gone out of practice mode into playing mode too soon.  For me the cure to get me back into practicing rather than playing is to use the metronome.  That always takes the "play" away and I can get busy working on those passages that would be flubbed and make them whole.

[pianoisthebest23]

I often play things up to speed before they are ready...Definitely need to work on that. 

[black_keys]

I often play things up to speed before they are ready...Definitely need to work on that. 

Yea the same thing to me

[perprocrastinate]

Overusing the sustain pedal. When I finally play a difficult passage perfectly, my forgetting to release the pedal butchers the sound.

[zezhyrule]

Overusing the sustain pedal. When I finally play a difficult passage perfectly, my forgetting to release the pedal butchers the sound.

This~ 

[roseamelia]

Mine are:

Pedaling on the wrong notes too.

I do the wrong finger sometimes on chromatic scales instead of three I do two.

And sometimes ignore the repeats.