Discussions

Hi all, and congratulations for this fantastic forum ! I wanted to open a new thread (hoping it's not already created anywhere>I didn't find...) about my pianistic discoveries. In a nutshell, I'm an amateur pianist (I...

Argerich's playing of the same piece Alan posted, in 2008. I personally find this more attractive than her earlier performance. In terms of technique, her arch, her use of hands are just as efficient as the old on...

This is the only video of Horowitz where he actually contradicted his own claim that he doesn't move around his body unnecessarily when he plays. Other than that, he does a lot more inefficient movements than he norm...

Hi, My teacher organized this informal recital to give me the oppurtunity to practise live performance for my grade 4 RCM exam next week. Recording quality is not the best but I hope its good enough to get some feedbac...

This is a very simple and powerful idea that I discovered in a book about Busoni. Playing the piano like any complex task, requires us to group or chunk information so that we can execute fairly long passages with a sin...

Hi I just wanted to throw this question out about recording piano practice. My last real teacher always said I should record myself - it really shows up things both technically and musically. I did a recording of pr...

Hi Alan, I have just received "honing" and I am very excited about it. It is really fun to read and very informative. I really like how the first few chapters go back to the fundamentals in the DVD (which I thought I al...

Hi there. I have a problem when playing arpeggios or passages involving the 4th and 5th finger on the last two notes(the 4th on a black key and the 5th on a white one). For instance when I play the arpeggiated broken...