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Tension During Fast Octaves
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
When I play octaves at a slow or moderate tempo, my hands and arms feel very free. However, when I play octaves at a very fast tempo, I sometimes feel excessive tension in the hands and arms. Is thi...
Lecture: Arm weight technique - pros and cons
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
@ : Alan has uploaded some really interesting new video clips recently. I know I could have posted this somewhere else on the forum, but this section seems to get the most attention. Here is the lect...
Mind and Hands
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
Mr. Fraser although I am getting better I still cannot seem to go on the piano and just let go mentally of my right arm and hand. I understand what I am supposed to do and my teacher (the one who trai...
5th finger droop and skeletality/knuckle collapse
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
Andrew, I suspect you may have missed the entire point of Guerrero's finger tapping exercise. It is not to find the anomalies in your finger's position and improve them: the point is to feels itself a...
The wonders of playing détaché
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
In a recent lesson with Alan we were working with playing détaché, in the context of arpeggio technique. Since then I've been playing around with different types of non-legato in places where I'd norm...
CHOPIN OCEAN ETUDE
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Student evaluation video discussion group
Hello Neil, Sorry I didn't respond earlier, didn't realize this new post was in. Your playing has good sonority and stability, and sometimes the r.h. thumb melody comes out enough - but more often, yo...
Thumb as arch-maker
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
Alan's exercise to raise the metacarpal arch - imagining a string tied round the forefinger knuckle, pulling back to to shoulder gently - got me experimenting: I noticed i could get the same result wi...
Pain in thumb. Wrong technique?
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10 years ago by A Pianist in Technique and methods
I don't know if I've come to the right place. I've recently returned to piano playing. I have gone from playing nothing to playing a lot in a short time, and started experiencing pain in my left thum...

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