Piano Technique: Piano Technique Fundamentals (Micro-Lessons)

Piano Technique Fundamentals: Pithy insights to get your whole approach to Piano Technique moving in the right direction…

Piano Technique Fundamentals (Micro-Lessons)

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Playing the piano should feel like you’re DANCING… with a partner. ~ Frank Peter

Technique and interpretation are INSEPARABLE. ~ Frank Peter

How you MOVE your body is the way the music is going to SOUND and FEEL. ~ Frank Peter

Fluent Piano Technique is achieved by learning how to dance, not by training your fingers to be well behaved little hammers on the end of stick. ~ Frank Peter

Suggesting that you play the piano using only your fingers is like saying that you dance ballet using only your feet. ~ Frank Peter

BEWARE of anyone who claims that you need to build strength and endurance in order to play the piano. ~ Frank Peter

You cannot make beautiful music if you play using just your fingers, no matter how dexterous and well-trained they might be. ~ Frank Peter

Musical technique is achieved by fluid CHOREOGRAPHY, not machine-like precision. ~ Frank Peter

The solution to a technical problem is always found in the direction of MENTAL and PHYSICAL EASE. ~ Frank Peter

Never stop playing… even in-between the notes… ESPECIALLY in-between the notes! ~ Frank Peter

Playing with a musical technique is largely the process of learning how to get out of your own way. ~ Frank Peter

Even SMALL ADJUSTMENTS in how you position and move your body will absolutely LIBERATE your technique. ~ Frank Peter

Fast playing is not a matter of developing “speed”, but about cultivating ACCURACY! ~ Frank Peter

Grouping of notes into meaningful musical PATTERNS, both physically and mentally, is essential to technical freedom and ease. ~ Frank Peter

All progress in piano technique is achieved by changing your BRAIN, not by changing your muscles. ~ Frank Peter

Expert piano technique is a TEAM SPORT. Your entire body contributes to every musical idea, large and small. ~ Frank Peter

“A coordinated GESTURE is all that is required to play any musical pattern with freedom, ease, and confidence.“ ~ Frank Peter

“Musical technique is always PREPARING & ANTICIPATING… mentally and physically CONNECTING one musical place to another!” ~ Frank Peter

“The keyboard is not a gymnasium. It’s a DANCE floor!” ~ Frank Peter

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