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Making Friends with Fiddly Fiorature

Making Friends with Fiddly Fiorature

By Graham Fitch, 2015-05-29
Posted in: General tips

Over the past couple of weeks I have had a few requests for advice on how to handle the flurries of little notes we find in the music of Chopin.…

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Tags: ann scheinartur rubinsteinChopin Nocturne in B flat minorChopin Nocturne in C sharp minorChopin Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minorconcentrationfioraturehands separatelymetronomeornamentsrhythmthe scoretheory
Making Friends with Fiddly Fiorature
Getting Students to Use the Practice Tools: Separately

Getting Students to Use the Practice Tools: Separately

By Graham Fitch, 2013-02-16
Posted in: Teaching

The brain is made up of two hemispheres, right and left. The right hemisphere controls the left side of the body, and vice versa. There is a bridge between the…

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Tags: childrencorpus callosumhands separatelypractice toolspractising hands separatelyPractising The Piano eBook SeriesSeparatelyteaching
Getting Students to Use the Practice Tools: Separately
A Supplement to Slow Practice

A Supplement to Slow Practice

By Graham Fitch, 2012-01-27
Posted in: Practising, Teaching

A few weeks ago, I gave some suggestions for practising Mozart's Rondo alla turca and I would like to apply this principle to another piece, which really couldn't be more contrasting in…

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Tags: hands separatelyMozartmozart rondo alla turcapiano teachingpracticing the pianopractising the pianoSectionsskeletonslow practiceSlowlyTchaikovskytchaikovsky dumka
A Supplement to Slow Practice
Top Ten Tips for Trouble Spots

Top Ten Tips for Trouble Spots

By Graham Fitch, 2011-07-03
Posted in: General tips

It is possible to hack away at a trouble spot for several minutes, constantly repeating it and beating it into submission, and then be able to manage it, more or…

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Top Ten Tips for Trouble Spots
The Three S’s (Part One)

The Three S’s (Part One)

By Graham Fitch, 2011-05-22
Posted in: Practising, Teaching

I couldn’t get far into this blog without talking about one of my mantras, “The Three S’s”. That (for me) stands for “SLOWLY, SEPARATELY, SECTIONS”, despite the array of alternative…

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The Three S’s (Part One)

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