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Tips for a Natural Hand Position

Tips for a Natural Hand Position

By Graham Fitch, 2020-05-28
Posted in: Technique

My approach to piano technique is based on using movements that are most natural to the body, movements that are free, loose and that feel good. It is most important…

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Tips for a Natural Hand Position
The History of Piano Technique (Part 1)

The History of Piano Technique (Part 1)

By Graham Fitch, 2013-11-22
Posted in: General tips

Writing about the history of piano technique for my new eBook I recalled vividly my harpsichord studies with Ruth Dyson at the RCM, and her insistence that the fingers play from…

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Tags: arm schoolblended activityfinger schoolfingersharpsichordhistoryJory VinikourMartha Beth LewisPractising The Piano eBook SeriesRuth Dysonstrengthtechnique
The History of Piano Technique (Part 1)
Five Fingers

Five Fingers

By Graham Fitch, 2013-10-25
Posted in: Practising

My piano chum, Leon Whitesell, has a brand new Facebook group called Piano Playing Questions. In a recent post, Leon referred to the five-finger exercise formulae of famous Russian teacher,…

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Tags: fingersfive-finger exercisesHanonJosef and Rosina LhévinneLeon WhitesellMedtnerpeter feuchtwangerpractice toolsQ&AScriabintheoryVasily Safonov
Five Fingers
Chess or Checkers?

Chess or Checkers?

By Graham Fitch, 2013-10-11
Posted in: Teaching

I have written extensively about the subject of slow practice on this blog and elsewhere. Since slow practice is such a cornerstone of our practice routine I don't apologise for making a…

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Tags: angela hewittchildrenfeetfingersinjurypianist magazinepractice toolsSlowlySteven Osbornetension
Chess or Checkers?
The Fantasie-Impromptu: Some Ideas (Part Two)

The Fantasie-Impromptu: Some Ideas (Part Two)

By Graham Fitch, 2012-11-02
Posted in: Learning Pieces

This is my second post on Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu. In the first, I proposed two different ways of choreographing the LH, the arm steering the hand in both. I also discussed…

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Tags: Chopincross rhythmsFantasie-Impromptufingershands togethermaking a chaintempo
The Fantasie-Impromptu: Some Ideas (Part Two)
Some Thoughts on Five-Finger Exercises: Variations on a Theme by Hanon

Some Thoughts on Five-Finger Exercises: Variations on a Theme by Hanon

By Graham Fitch, 2012-09-19
Posted in: General tips, Practising

Almost every book of piano exercises has a chapter dealing with five-finger exercises, and a lot of pianists won't feel warmed up and ready to face their practice session without…

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Some Thoughts on Five-Finger Exercises: Variations on a Theme by Hanon
Eliminating Tension(2): Braced Conditions Of The Hand And Wrist

Eliminating Tension(2): Braced Conditions Of The Hand And Wrist

By Graham Fitch, 2012-07-12
Posted in: Practising, Teaching

Yes, I know I was going to talk about forearm rotation this week, but inspiration took me elsewhere. I'll get to that soon, I promise! This post deals with how…

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Eliminating Tension(2): Braced Conditions Of The Hand And Wrist
Tools for Memorisation

Tools for Memorisation

By Graham Fitch, 2012-05-31
Posted in: Practising

Here is the second part of my article MIND OVER MEMORY, published last year in Pianist Magazine. Remember, everyone who has ever played the piano in public has had that horrible…

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Tags: evaluatefingersmemorypianist magazineskeletonstoppingtrackingtranspositionvisualisation
Tools for Memorisation
On Passagework

On Passagework

By Graham Fitch, 2011-11-27
Posted in: Practising

There are innumerable examples in the piano repertoire of what is commonly known as "passagework", a string of fast notes that lasts either a few bars, a whole section, or…

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Tags: accentadele marcusChopineffortfingersinjurymaria curciopassageworkpiano pedagogypracticing the pianopractising the pianorhythmteachingtempotension
On Passagework
On Double Notes (Part One)

On Double Notes (Part One)

By Graham Fitch, 2011-08-28
Posted in: Practising, Teaching

Technikos: "of, or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful" But there is no difference between interpretation and technique. Every dynamic and nuance must be produced simultaneously by a technical means (Walter…

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Tags: armdouble notesexercisesfingersMoszkowskitheory
On Double Notes (Part One)

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