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Bach - Little Prelude(BWV 939) - 6 days of practice(started last Thursday and finished it this Tuesday) Tchaikovsky - Old French Song(#16, Album for the Young) - 5 days of practice(started last Friday and finishe...

Hi! I have the DVD and I think it is great. I will definitely use it for my pianostudy. However I don't have any book of it and I am curious what pieces are being played on the DVD. *The piece at the end of chapter...

Going back to the wrecking ball analogy/ping pong ball analogy, but in a slightly different way to before, I had an idea yesterday that I think could be very useful for the dichotomy between lightness and heaviness. Taki...

Hi, My neighbour called me today and asked if we could reduce the number of hours we practice the piano the piano every day - I can understand her - especially when the same section is being practised over and over agai...

My first new problem is related to R-L hand coordination when playing scales at a faster tempo. I played them at 40 bpm for a very long period of time, then switched to 50, 60, 80 and even 104. When playing faster my lef...

Hi there all I've been listening to Valentina Lisitsa float over the keys of chopin op.25 no.6. Then I listened to a few more artists - Sokolov, Kissin, Pollini, Ashkenazy etc. I must have listened umpteen times b...

Just been thinking a lot about this recently and I wonder what Alan would think about a kind of 'internalized' elbow out that goes on pretty much constantly- but which never notably pushes out as you play through a chord...

Hi, I am studying Chopin's prelude in E minor and I was wondering what kind of rubato should be applied there and why. I have read in some places that both Mozart and Chopin were quoted saying that the right hand melod...