Here you are going to learn how to use your brain and move your body in a way that enables you to play the piano with natural ease and artistry…
Links to Lessons
- Piano Technique: General Principles
- Body Awareness Training
- Play Like an Artist!
- Piano Technique: Micro-Lessons
- Introduction to Musical Mind
- Introduction to Musical Phrasing
In the Works
NOTE: Frank is in the process of producing and RE-producing videos on the following topics. Please let him know if there is something in particular that YOU are interested in so that he might priotize which leson come first.
- The Magic Compass
- Six Degrees of Freedom
- Choreography
- Music As Language
- A Computer Analogy (Programming)
- Practice Makes Permanent
- Motion is Lotion (never stop moving!)
- An Ounce of Prevention! (common, but very easy to fix mistakes!)
- Gravity, Weight, Release, Gesture
- The Finger Training Myth
- Commentary on Hanon, Cortot, Czerny, Whiteside, Taubman, etc.
- Fingering Principles/Finger Numbers/Fingering Revisited
- Keyboard Layout: Middle What?
- The Five Articulations (Legato, Staccato, Tenuto, Portato, Accent)
- The Black Keys
- Muscle Memory (combine four intelligences?)
- Proprioception & Visualization
- Tactile Feedback
- Vertical Chunking (Flams”)
- Horizontal Chunking
- Connect the Dots
- Lazy Thumbs
- Chunking & Continuity
- Momentum (Preparation)
- Crossovers
- Circular Playing
- Think Thumbs
- Sticky Fingers
- A Lesson in Legato
- Skips
- Slow Chords (Thrust)
- Depth
- Single Sustained Notes
- Slow Repeated Notes
- Fast Repeated Notes
- Do You Change Fingers on Repeated Notes?
- Slow Repeated Chords
- Single Sustained Chords
- Fast Repeated Chords
- Two Note Slurs
- Getting There
- Push Offs
- Horizontal Key Depth
- Vertical Key Depth
- Alberti Bass
- Accents
- Staccato
- Legato
- “Fast” Versus “Slow” Playing
- Skips
- Slow Arpeggios
- Fast Arpeggios
- Chromatic Scales (Maybe I’m Amazed”)
- Grace Notes
- High & Low Registers
- Prepared or Unprepared Attack?
- Left-Right Integration?/Five Note Left-Right Independence Studies?
- Octaves Made Easy
- Trills, Tremolos, Reversals, Rocking Motions
- Breathe!
- “Inside” a Single Note
- Top Notes
- Bottom Notes
- Play It Like You Mean It!
- Play Something!
- Starting a Piece (“lift”)
- Ending a Piece
- Visio-Spatial Keyboard Awareness: Major Triads