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Piano Technique: Playing LEGATO can be a drag!

Posted on May 21, 2015 by

One of my favorite verbal prompts to students who have a choppy approach to scales and arpeggios, is: “drag” your fingers from note note–“feel” the weight transfer with imagined resistance. I often talk about flowing “vowels” not consonants through an … Continue reading →

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Piano Gym: Routines that build technique (Videos)

Posted on August 11, 2012 by

In the Olympiad era, bespectacled piano teachers and their students are assumed to be lockouts, pouring over eclectic music manuscripts in sheltered studios of higher learning. We’re viewed as eternal bench-warmers, leading sedentary lives; practicing archaic music for hours at … Continue reading →

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