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 in Piano Technique
- Piano Technique: General Principles
- Body Awareness Training
- Play Like an Artist!
- Piano Technique: Micro-Lessons
- Introduction to Musical Mind
- Introduction to Musical Phrasing
- Proprioception & Visualization
- Commentary on Hanon, etc.
- Muscle Memory
- Fingering Principles / Finger Numbers / Fingering Revisited
- Keyboard Layout: The Four “Middles”
- Prepared or Unprepared Attack?
- The Black Keys
- Up & Down, a Lesson in Legato
- Chunking & Continuity
- Circular Playing
- “Inside” a Single Note
- Connect the Dots
In the Works
NOTE: Frank is in the process of reproducing or producing lessons on the following topics. Please let him know if there is something in particular that YOU are interested in so that he might prioritize which lessons come first.
- Play Something!
- Choreography
- Six Degrees of Freedom, Horizontal Key Depth, Vertical Key Depth
- Music As Language
- A Computer Analogy (Programming)
- Gravity, Weight, Release, Gesture
- Five Articulations (Legato, Staccato, Tenuto, Portato, Accent)
- Lazy Thumbs
- Tactile Feedback
- Vertical Chunking (No Flams)
- Horizontal Chunking
- Momentum (Preparation)
- Crossovers
- Think Thumbs
- Sticky Fingers
- Skips
- Slow Chords (Thrust)
- Single Sustained Notes
- Slow Repeated Notes
- Fast Repeated Notes (Do You Change Fingers on Repeated Notes?)
- Single Sustained Chords
- Slow Repeated Chords
- Fast Repeated Chords
- Two Note Slurs
- Push Offs
- Alberti Bass (Mozart Sonata in C)
- Getting There
- “Fast” Versus “Slow” Playing
- Skips
- Slow Arpeggios
- Fast Arpeggios
- Chromatic Scales (Maybe I’m Amazed”)
- Grace Notes
- High & Low Registers
- Left-Right Integration?/Five Note Left-Right Independence Studies?
- Octaves Made Easy
- Trills, Tremolos, Reversals, Rocking Motions
- Breathe!
- Top Notes
- Bottom Notes
- Play It Like You Mean It!
- Starting a Piece (“lift”)
- Ending a Piece
Fingering Charts
- Fingering Charts: 12 Major Scales
- Fingering Charts: 12 Natural Minor Scales
- Fingering Charts: Major Triad Arpeggios
- Fingering Charts: Minor Triad Arpeggios
- Right Hand Fingering Patterns: Major Scales (YouTube)