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Piano Technique: Be a Blockhead when learning Bach

Posted on November 27, 2014 by

Blocking techniques can help to solidify tricky passages in Bach’s A minor Invention (13), especially if intelligent decisions are made about landscaping broken chords with thumb shifts weaving through them. Examining measures 9 through 13 for example, I devised a … Continue reading →

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