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Speaking of the alignment of the bones, I believe that besides the movement of "grasping" we could also add the movement of "caressing". To Get ready to caress the key to press it is not an useless movement because, i...
Partially, along the lines of the stuff I've already said here, there's another thing that occured to me that I think is one of the key fundaments that leads to a person's style of technique, from the very first note tha...
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Body position, Muscular area (yellow, green and blue), point of equilibrium area (blue), point of engine area (green), point of movement area (red).
His pianistic mechanism is one of the greatest in history and he moves as intelligently and gracefully as any pianist I have seen. He plays with wonderful finesse, power and structural clarity. One thing I don't find i...
My particular situation may be different from many other students: I recently decided to try to develop a decent piano technique after several decades of "doing what came naturally". I had worse than no technique (i.e....
I am struggling to deal with significant pain in the base of my thumbs, without giving up playing for an extensive period of time, and it has led me to a way of practicing that I thought might be of interest to others...
In the DVD I not have see the use of the body (muscle of all the body), playing the piano. Use correct or not correct of muscle of arm, leg, shoulders. ecc., all muscle of the body, during my performance at the piano,...
