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If you're hitting speed barriers, you need to go back and work out the "bugs" in your playing. Figure out where the difficulties come from. What notes of the studies tend to get shortchanged? What intervals feel awkward?...
Hi all, I'm currently studying a Bachelor of Music in contemporary performance. I'm a mature age student (36 y.o.) and have a lot of performing experience under my belt but no degree. I'm classically-trained but pursu...
Ok I have been trained pretty well in technique and approach to piano and never had really any problems with pain ever. But now I am in my freshman year of conservatory and I have (for reasons that are personal) experien...
I am experimenting on the computer keyboard as well as piano. I'm noticing something right now as I type-- I'll have to try it at the piano, too. It has to do with relaxation. My hands are quite tense by habit. Tha...
Hi there, What is a good technique for glissandoing? I struggle to do this without getting a sore hand pretty quick.
Over the last couple of days I've become aware of some tension along the outer ridges of my arms. It appears to be localised to a small area around where the tendon for my fifth finger emerges from my wrist, on the arm s...
Alan, I'm suddenly starting to hold a lot of tension in my neck. It feels tight and unpleasant. This is not tension that is coming from lack of function in my hand/arm. Rather, it seems to me that the tension starts i...
