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Just saw that this article has been quoted on the piano technique site. Funnily enough I'd stumbled across it a few days earlier. I wasn't quite sure what to think. My first inclination was that it sounded like wi...

Just encountered this concept for the first time: It's interesting to relate it to keybedding, as well as with the concept of fingers that only support pressures from the arm. Strictly speaking, even the most skel...

I've been thinking recently about the role of the thumb recently, after working through some of the ATMs in Honing. In particular, the one about moving the thumb and feeling the breeze that the movement creates has been...

I've recently been working on scales and arpeggios from a variety of different angles - integrating rotation, experimenting with feather light legato and exploring maximum articulation of the fingers. I've started this t...

Here are a couple of videos I've uploaded to illustrate the points I made in the thread about standing: Now, as Francis Bacon said, experiments often tend to "prove" what they set out to prove. There's certa...

Does raising the wrist cause tendonitis

I've finally got around to doing most of the videos for the post on thumbs (that I'd actually completed the writing for ages ago). I'd be interested in any views from anyone. Most of the exercises have a good deal...