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 Fundamentals: General Principles
- Piano Technique Fundamentals: Body Awareness Training
- Commentary on Hanon, Cortot, Czerny, etc.
- Why Everyone Should Buy Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist
- Fingering Principles
- Finger Numbers
- Fingering Revisited
- Keyboard Layout: Middle What?
- Articulations (Legato, Staccato, Portato)
- Muscle Memory
- Proprioception & Visualization
- Connect the Dots
- “Fast” Versus “Slow” Playing
- Do You Change Fingers on Repeated Notes?
- Prepared or Unprepared Attack?
- Left-Right Integration
- Five Note Left-Right Independence Studies
- The Black Keys
- Momentum
- Chunking & Continuity
- Finger Crossovers
- Circular Playing
- Think Thumbs
- Sticky Fingers
- Up & Down, a Lesson in Legato
- Lazy Thumbs
- Octaves Made Easy
- An Introduction to Phrasing
- “Inside” a Single Note
- Play Something!
- Visio-Spatial Keyboard Awareness: Major Triads
- Micro-Lessons