Crossing Hands, Automatic Fingering & Practising Ornaments
Our first practice clinic of the year features questions on crossing hands, fingering, ornaments and more in Prokofiev, Bach, Grieg and Scarlatti!
Pieces to Play – Galuppi, Bach & the Schumanns
The next instalment in our Pieces to Play series features works at a variety of levels by MacDowell, Bach, Galuppi, Merikanto & both Schumanns!
Bach, Schubert, Pedalling & Playing Softly
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.
Florence Price, Bach, Haydn & a Daydream!
Another four videos featuring pieces from Grades 2 – 7 of the 2023 & 2024 ABRSM piano examination syllabus have been published on the Online Academy.
Choreographing Bach’s D Minor Invention
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. …
Inventing Exercises from Pieces
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…
Inventing Exercises
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…