Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Are you afraid of making mistakes when playing piano? Do “wrong notes” instantly stop your flow when piano playing or improvising? In this tutorial, Cameron breaks down practical strategies on how to rewire your ear so that mistakes become musical choices — not something to fear.
This lesson focuses on how to overcome fear of wrong notes and shows you how to turn dissonance into something expressive and intentional. Instead of avoiding mistakes, you’ll learn how to use them creatively in your piano playing and piano improvisation.
In this video, Cameron demonstrates a clear 3-step process for how to correct “mistakes”:
1️⃣ Learn to hear dissonance – developing awareness through focused ear training
2️⃣ Step into safety by resolving the dissonance – understanding how tension works musically
3️⃣ Repeat the “mistake” – transforming it into an intentional musical idea.
By repeating and shaping so-called mistakes, you stop being scared of making mistakes and start making confident musical decisions.
Cameron also explores Bill Evans’ Peace Piece as a powerful example of how dissonance, space, and repetition can form the foundation of a beautiful improvisation. Using this idea, he creates a free improvisation and shows how “wrong notes” can become part of a compelling musical language.
If you would like practical piano exercises to improve your ear and strategies on how to correct mistakes and make them intentional, this tutorial is for you!
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VIDEO BREAKDOWN:
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Hearing dissonance
09:08 Stepping into safety
17:17 Repetition = Intention
21:28 Bill Evans Peace Piece
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👇 If you would like to learn more how to improvise on piano and discover new chord shapes, watch this tutorial next:
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Credits:
Filmed by Josh Adams.
Edited by Charlie Coe.
youtu.be/Nk4orTGn0uY
#londoncontemporaryschoolofpiano #wrongnotes #pianotutorial
Are you afraid of making mistakes when playing piano? Do “wrong notes” instantly stop your flow when piano playing or improvising? In this tutorial, Cameron breaks down practical strategies on how to rewire your ear so that mistakes become musical choices — not something to fear.
This lesson focuses on how to overcome fear of wrong notes and shows you how to turn dissonance into something expressive and intentional. Instead of avoiding mistakes, you’ll learn how to use them creatively in your piano playing and piano improvisation.
In this video, Cameron demonstrates a clear 3-step process for how to correct “mistakes”:
1️⃣ Learn to hear dissonance – developing awareness through focused ear training
2️⃣ Step into safety by resolving the dissonance – understanding how tension works musically
3️⃣ Repeat the “mistake” – transforming it into an intentional musical idea.
By repeating and shaping so-called mistakes, you stop being scared of making mistakes and start making confident musical decisions.
Cameron also explores Bill Evans’ Peace Piece as a powerful example of how dissonance, space, and repetition can form the foundation of a beautiful improvisation. Using this idea, he creates a free improvisation and shows how “wrong notes” can become part of a compelling musical language.
If you would like practical piano exercises to improve your ear and strategies on how to correct mistakes and make them intentional, this tutorial is for you!
—————————————————————————
VIDEO BREAKDOWN:
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Hearing dissonance
09:08 Stepping into safety
17:17 Repetition = Intention
21:28 Bill Evans Peace Piece
—————————————————————————
👇 If you would like to learn more how to improvise on piano and discover new chord shapes, watch this tutorial next:
youtube.com/watch?v=mfFukKNJBQg&list=PLDqNslPG6e1J39vKtouDGW-NQCOsxfFp-&index=65
🎁 Claim your FREE gift - Resources Pack - by getting in touch with us at London Contemporary School of Piano so that we can help you solve your challenges and accelerate you progress at the piano:
contemporaryschoolofpiano.com
🎹 Learn Piano with Cameron Ward:
contemporaryschoolofpiano.com/coaches/cameron-ward
🎓 Get Your GROOVE Everyday Course to access all the resources you need to master piano grooves and expand your piano groove vocabulary:
lcsp.samcart.com/products/groove-mastery-everyday
🎓 Join our Flagship Course, THE COMPLETE MUSICIAN: Piano Essentials Online Course with Tom Donald:
contemporaryschoolofpiano.com/the-complete-musician
🔔 If you enjoyed this piano tutorial on piano practice strategies for dealing with fear of making mistakes when playing piano and would like to get more top tips on learning piano, make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel right here:
youtube.com/channel/UCZWqaBf6VLuD0cSKF4cukPg?sub_confirmation=1
Follow CAMERON WARD:
INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/camwardkeys
Credits:
Filmed by Josh Adams.
Edited by Charlie Coe.
youtu.be/Nk4orTGn0uY
#londoncontemporaryschoolofpiano #wrongnotes #pianotutorial
