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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...

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...

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?...

Just made a rather interesting discovery, while practising opus 10 no 1. As far as the 5th goes, I've been experimenting with either pure knuckle pulls or actions that combine the action of extending the finger mildly fo...

The best Etincelles I´ve heard -- from the master of easy listening piano! What do you think?

I had the chance to work with Alan during his recent visits to New York. I have some lingering questions about standing on the fingers. Should I or shouldn't I? In my first session, I played Schubert's Op. 90, No. 3 I...

Just tried playing this through yesterday. While it's a hell of a long way from Horowitz (to put it mildly) I was actually quite pleasantly surprised by the overall result. Last time I tried playing it through the...

Arpeggios are an aspect of technique that I've been looking into recently (since everything I've been playing seems to have sweeping left hand arpeggios somewhere). I made some progress with them a few months back, makin...