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Left hand little finger pain
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
Hi, I was glad to find your forum looking for help regarding my left hand. Having returned to playing again last year, in recent months I've been making progress with stride style left hand. In my e...
Developing a Better Sense Rhythm
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
I have recently been struggling with the some new pieces I am learning. My teacher says I play very beatifully (tone, touch, phrasing), but then there comes a point that a note is rushed and that re...
This problem I have
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
Hi all, so here is my problem right now. Right forearm muscles get tense. But!!! I know what you're thinking: wrong movement, no arch, no arm weight/balance, etc, etc, all the usual stuff... BUT! H...
Moriz Rosenthal
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Piano master video discussion group
Over the past year and a half I have become obsessed with 19th century players. I love everything about the style. One characteristic that nearly all the players I like have is the ability to make the...
Practice Techniques for Fast Passages
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
Hi, I am struggling with acquiring speed in some of the repertoire I am studyiing. For example, the left hand in the excerpt bellow from Beethoven Sonata 19 Op.49 no. 1 (Rondo). The movement is all...
Fulcrums
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
It just occurred to me that the big problems with some of the physics oriented approaches of old lies within the spectacularly oversimplified explanations of the fulcrum. To think of the knuckles as b...
Transition from 3 to 4th finger
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
Dear Alan, my 4th and 5th fingers keep being weak and "entangled". Every time I play a passage that requires to go rapidly through the 3rd to the 4th finger, the latter barely presses th...
Balance of the arm
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
Just written a new post covering various issues: While the last one was about perceiving the fullest sense of release possible, this one is about starting to put some activity back in at the sh...

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