My brood of students and I enjoy the romp through a set of parallel thirds within a five-finger position.
In our escapade, we usually dance through the Major and parallel minor tonalities.
Interplay, back and forth always helps. It allows the teacher to model physical ingredients of a buoyant staccato.
Arms and wrists should be relaxed, and suggested points of energy renewal are identified. Ilyana, 8, punctuated these with claps before she gave it a whirl.
Private piano teacher, recording artist, composer, piano finder, freelance writer, film maker, story teller: Grad of the NYC HS of Performing Arts, Oberlin Conservatory, NYU (Master of Arts) Studies with Lillian Freundlich and Ena Bronstein; Master classes with Murray Perahia and Oxana Yablonskaya. Studios in BERKELEY and EL CERRITO, California; Member, Music Teachers Assoc. of California, MTAC; Distance learning
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