Developing your piano technique is never a matter of doing mechanical exercises but of discovering a choreography for the particular piece of music at hand!
Choreography and Piano Technique
Each particular musical passage suggests a certain choreography that engages the natural coordination of ALL your piano-playing body parts: head, torso, shoulders, upper arms, forearms, hands, and fingers.
And so, one of the goals of studying a piece of music is to discover the choreography that fluently expresses your musical intentions.
Takeaways
Musical piano technique is about learning how to dance with the keyboard.
Piano Technique is not something you have or don’t have. Technique exists (or not) only in relation to the particular musical passage you are trying to play.
The way you move your body is the way the music is going to sound and feel.
If it doesn’t feel like you are dancing, you are doing it the wrong way.
Study first in order to discover an appropriate choreography for the musical passage in question. Practice second in order to train your brain to make that choreography automatic.
The piano is not a gymnasium.
It’s a dance floor!
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