An adult student and I worked on relaxation techniques that applied to her warm-ups. We practiced preparation for starting notes of broken chords and scales.
I recommended a slow and deep ingestion of air before the release of a stream, that has a perfect moment to create an opening sound or tone. Music and the synchronized breath are at ONE.
Most students will fall hard on an opening note, sending it down stream, without the necessary spring forward energy to perpetuate the flow of a phrase. A poke, jab, or premature gesture, can cause entrapment of a note that has only given birth to itself without relation to others.
Pianists must be singers, with a generous flow of circulating breath to feed phrases. We are otherwise, separated from strings inside the piano, unable to directly pluck them or draw a bow over their surface. Our challenge is to bridge a…
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Arioso7's Blog (Shirley Kirsten) 
Shirley, thank you for the demonstration on breathing in regard to the melodic line and phrasing. I enjoyed your demonstrations using the contrary motion scale, then moving to the repertoire
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Thanks, Deborah. I’m glad the demonstrations were of value. I appreciated your feedback. SK
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