Piano Technique
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The solution to a technical problem is never–I repeat never–about doing exercises to build finger strength, speed, and endurance…
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Highly skilled musicians don’t have some superhuman capacity to think about enormous strings of unrelated sounds or dots on a page…
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The solution to a technical problem is always found in the direction of mental and physical ease…
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Fingering charts in PDF format showing finger choice and placement for the Harmonic Minor Scales over two octaves in both hands…
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Unfortunately, most piano students begin and end their musical careers struggling to play notation, not music…
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We don’t speak English one-syl-la-ble-at-a-time. We shouldn’t play music one-note-at-a-time, either!
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Did you know that there are four “middles” on an 88 key keyboard?
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Music has the power to make us march, dance, sing, remember, laugh, and cry….
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‘s explore the expressive potential of different articulations by playing the same phrase using three different “touches” — legato, staccato, and portato…
