Our bumper Practice Clinic this month features answers to questions on pedalling, playing cantabile, practising chords, arpeggio fingering and pesky polyrhythms in works by Sibelius, Schubert, Mayerl, Piazzzola and Beethoven!
In this month’s practice clinic, Graham Fitch answers two questions on playing chords followed by questions on achieving legato in a Rhapsody by Brahms and a Allemande by Handel
In this month’s Practice Clinic, Graham Fitch answered questions on works by Brahms, Chopin and Burgmüller. Topics discussed included playing rolled chords, practising grace notes, tackling demisemiquavers and Baroque style.
We tend to think of sitting at the piano and practising totally in terms of making sounds. If we’re not moving our fingers up and down, we’re not really practising,…
Chopin's evergreen First Ballade has never been more popular, thanks in part to Alan Rusbridger's book about his personal quest with the piece, Play It Again. It is a piece that…
I use a three-part process for measuring distances at the keyboard, to make sure all jumps are precise, secure and foolproof. We build in the precise measurements in our practising…
Annoyingly, last week's post on eliminating tension (which was to be the first of two or three on the subject) has itself been eliminated. It disappeared into the ether when…
In my youth I was fortunate enough to have some lessons with Philip Fowke, the first one was on Rachmaninov's rather overplayed Prelude in C sharp minor. I recall the…
Waltzes demand a fair amount of left hand agility from the pianist - all that hopping back and forth can be quite dizzying. A pre-requisite for mobility across the keyboard…
Unless anyone cares to contact me with further suggestions, this will be the last of my posts on chords. It's a selection of a few unrelated odds and ends which…
