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Crossing Hands, Automatic Fingering & Practising Ornaments

Crossing Hands, Automatic Fingering & Practising Ornaments

By Informance, 2025-02-13
Posted in: Practising

Our first practice clinic of the year features questions on crossing hands, fingering, ornaments and more in Prokofiev, Bach, Grieg and Scarlatti!

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Tags: bachcrossing handsfingeringGrieginventionornamentspractice clinicProkofievScarlattistaccato
Crossing Hands, Automatic Fingering & Practising Ornaments
Pieces to Play – Galuppi, Bach & the Schumanns

Pieces to Play – Galuppi, Bach & the Schumanns

By Informance, 2024-01-25
Posted in: Inspiration, Learning Pieces

The next instalment in our Pieces to Play series features works at a variety of levels by MacDowell, Bach, Galuppi, Merikanto & both Schumanns!

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Tags: album for the youngClara Schumanngaluppiinventionjs bachpieces to playSchumann
Pieces to Play – Galuppi, Bach & the Schumanns
Bach, Schubert, Pedalling & Playing Softly

Bach, Schubert, Pedalling & Playing Softly

By Informance, 2023-09-21
Posted in: Learning Pieces, Practising

In this month’s practice clinic, Graham Fitch answers questions on playing softly, practising a Bach Invention, pedalling in a piece by Maikapar and tackling some of the challenges in the 1st movement of Schubert’s monumental last sonata.

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Tags: bachinventionlegatomaikaparpedallingpractice clinicSchubert
Bach, Schubert, Pedalling & Playing Softly
Florence Price, Bach, Haydn & a Daydream!

Florence Price, Bach, Haydn & a Daydream!

By Informance, 2023-04-06
Posted in: Examinations, Learning Pieces

Another four videos featuring pieces from Grades 2 – 7 of the 2023 & 2024 ABRSM piano examination syllabus have been published on the Online Academy.

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Tags: ABRSMabrsm 2023 & 2024ABRSM Grade 2ABRSM Grade 6bachexaminationsflorence pricegrade 6HaydnHaydn Sonata in B minorintermediateinvention
Florence Price, Bach, Haydn & a Daydream!
Choreographing Bach’s D Minor Invention

Choreographing Bach’s D Minor Invention

By Graham Fitch, 2020-04-30
Posted in: Learning Pieces, Technique

I’m going to look at Bach’s Two-Part Invention in D minor, aiming to help you solve a couple of the issues that seem to bother some players in this piece. …

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Choreographing Bach’s D Minor Invention
Inventing Exercises from Pieces

Inventing Exercises from Pieces

By Graham Fitch, 2013-03-07
Posted in: Practising, Teaching

There are pieces that contain passages of technical difficulty that require special attention, a type of practising over and above the routine use of the other practice tools. This could…

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Tags: alfred cortotChopincraftDebussyinventing exercisesinventiontechniquetrouble spots
Inventing Exercises from Pieces
Inventing Exercises

Inventing Exercises

By Graham Fitch, 2011-09-17
Posted in: Practising

One thing I can say for certain is that we are all different. When it comes down to rituals in practising, there is nothing more personal than what we do…

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Tags: beethovenexercisesinventionpractising the pianoSchumann
Inventing Exercises

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