How to play with great rhythm - 7 important keys

https://playpianofluently.com/ How to practise to make your playing rhythmically flowing and stable can be quite a conundrum. People often struggle to feel confident that they're playing the correct rhythm and they tend to worry about going out of time. Often they resort to practising with a metronome and try to be perfectly in time but this just leads to more problems, tension and stiff unmusical playing. In this short video, I explain how to approach improving your rhythm and developing a strong sense of musical pulse and metre. Put these 7 keys to good rhythm into practice and you'll find that playing with great rhythm can be easy and natural.

00:00 Put rhythm first before everything else
02:00 Don't control timing
04:47 Stop guessing it from "how it goes"!
08:15 Sense the structure and flow inwardly - body and soul
11:45 Sense it like poetic metre or storytelling - say it with feeling and some flexibility
17:36 Relax your body and mind! (let go, be brave!)
20:49 Don't overthink about note values - think in cells