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Individualizing Piano Study: How to avoid Method Book dependency

Posted on March 30, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Over decades of teaching, I’ve come to the conclusion that each student needs a custom designed long-term lesson plan. Method books only go so far. Often they stratify the learning process, keeping students in an interminably drawn out, regressive C … Continue reading →

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Piano Students as Composers: Stimulating a Creative Teaching and Learning Environment

Posted on March 27, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

This morning, as I foraged through piles of folders, I stumbled upon one of my articles that was published in the California Music Teacher (MTAC Magazine) in 1985. At the time, I had just released my music book, “Piano Duets … Continue reading →

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Music Theory and Piano Study: It doesn’t have to be drudgery

Posted on March 26, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Music Theory doesn’t have to be drudgery If I turn the clock back to my early days as a piano student, I can say without a doubt that I absolutely HATED “Music Theory” or anything remotely related to it. And … Continue reading →

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Bach to Nature, Part 2: The Avian Shuffle

Posted on March 23, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I returned to Oso De Oro Park in Fresno, California to film geese, ducks, and gulls doing their lighthearted shuffles. A Baroque March framed the landscape. These birds produced quite a show. Back story: The gates to the lake area … Continue reading →

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Piano Technique: Big Leaps, Crossed Hands, and shifty eyeballs (with slow motion video replay)

Posted on February 23, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Prepare to exercise your eyeballs minus head movements when tackling large leaps, especially those hand over hand acrobatics that are intrinsic to many of Domenico Scarlatti’s sonatas. In the video I’ve isolated a few of these jumps from K. 113 … Continue reading →

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Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in A, K. 113–in leaps and bounds

Posted on February 18, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I can always use an extra pair of hands to navigate the Baroque composer’s technically challenging sonata It’s a real workout playing Domenico Scarlatti’s essercizi or sonatas. The impossible leaps, crossed hands, trills and syncopation that permeate the composer’s music … Continue reading →

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Piano Instruction: Fur Elise by Beethoven (Video)

Posted on February 16, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Played on the Steinway piano Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” is a cherished composition that many of my piano students aspire to play, so I always look forward to helping them along in the learning process. I recommend subdividing the fundamental eighth … Continue reading →

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Performance Anxiety and the Pianist

Posted on February 6, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

For too long performance anxiety was a taboo subject, always swept under the rug. I remember grappling with paralyzing jitters during my years at the New York City High School of Performing Arts. My piano teacher at the time, a … Continue reading →

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Practicing Bach Inventions 4 and 13 with my 10 year old piano student

Posted on February 5, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

We had fun videotaping part of a lesson from a different camera angle. My student and I sat in front of our separate pianos, collaborating on two Bach Inventions. (Number 4 in D minor and number 13 in A minor) … Continue reading →

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The iPhone Invades Piano Lessons

Posted on February 2, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Monday, Jan. 24th, was a first! Esmeralda, a retired attorney, who’d been taking lessons from me for a year, entered my El Cerrito piano studio with a bright red iPhone as a sign of the times. A dangling rectangular prism … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: creative fresno

Individualizing Piano Study: How to avoid Method Book dependency

Piano Students as Composers: Stimulating a Creative Teaching and Learning Environment

Music Theory and Piano Study: It doesn’t have to be drudgery

Bach to Nature, Part 2: The Avian Shuffle

Piano Technique: Big Leaps, Crossed Hands, and shifty eyeballs (with slow motion video replay)

Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in A, K. 113–in leaps and bounds

Piano Instruction: Fur Elise by Beethoven (Video)

Performance Anxiety and the Pianist

Practicing Bach Inventions 4 and 13 with my 10 year old piano student

The iPhone Invades Piano Lessons

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