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Schumann, Mozart, Muscle Memory & Double Notes

Schumann, Mozart, Muscle Memory & Double Notes

By Informance, 2023-10-12
Posted in: Learning Pieces, Practising

Our latest Practice Clinic recording features answers to questions on tackling double notes, pedalling, building muscle memory and tempo in works by Schumann, Mozart and Brahms.

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Tags: BrahmsBrahms Intermezzo in A op. 118 no 2kinderszenenmemoryMozartpedallingpractice clinicSchumann
Schumann, Mozart, Muscle Memory & Double Notes
Firm Foundations from the Start

Firm Foundations from the Start

By Graham Fitch, 2022-06-09
Posted in: Practising

Graham Fitch shares some tips and tools for developing other types of memory alongside muscle memory for greater security and confidence in performance.

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Tags: memorisationmemoryonline events
Firm Foundations from the Start
Write it Out!

Write it Out!

By Graham Fitch, 2019-08-15
Posted in: General tips

I first published this post way back in June, 2013, and it has been buried in the archives ever since. I decided to update it and republish after the subject…

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Tags: errorsgoldberg variationsmarking the scorememorywriting
Write it Out!
The Floating Fermata

The Floating Fermata

By Graham Fitch, 2019-03-14
Posted in: Practising

Graham Fitch explains how one of his favourite day-to day-practice tools, the Floating Fermata works.

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Tags: BrahmsBrahms IntermezzoChopinChopin Scherzo no. 1 in B minorerrorsfloating fermataGinasteraGinastera Danzas Argentinaslearning a piecemaking a chainmemoryop. 119stoppingwrong notes
The Floating Fermata
Tackling a Programme

Tackling a Programme

By Graham Fitch, 2014-02-28
Posted in: Performing

I had an interesting question from a reader in Australia, so this week I thought I would address the issue of how to learn a programme consisting of multiple pieces.…

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Tags: Chopineasy piecesexaminationslearning a piecememoryorganisationparkinson's lawperformancepractice toolsprogrammeQ&AThe Three S's
Tackling a Programme
A Tool for Memory Work: Tracking

A Tool for Memory Work: Tracking

By Graham Fitch, 2013-08-29
Posted in: Practising, Teaching

Memorising a piece takes plenty of time and energy, and requires a strategy more sophisticated than simply closing the score after several weeks of reading it. Some memory work is…

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Tags: ChopinChopin Nocturne in Bevaluatelisteningmarking the scorememorisationmemoryno. 1op. 32piano teachingpractice toolspractising backwardPractising The Piano eBook Seriestrackingvisualisation
A Tool for Memory Work: Tracking
Back Up!

Back Up!

By Graham Fitch, 2013-08-09
Posted in: Practising, Teaching

In an effort to assist students with their learning, I will often ask for the beginning and the end of the piece in a lesson. Or perhaps even work on the…

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Tags: backwards practiceFred ChildKhachaturian Toccataloopingmaintenancemaking a chainmemoryPerformance Today American Public MediaPractising The Piano eBook SeriesSimone Dinnersteinteaching
Back Up!
Firm Foundations

Firm Foundations

By Graham Fitch, 2013-01-18
Posted in: General tips, Practice tools, Practising

A late, esteemed colleague who had amazing sight reading skills once told me he never read through more than once a new piece he was about to learn. It was…

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Tags: fingeringlearning a piecememoryrepertoirerhythmsight readingtempo
Firm Foundations
Mirror Mirror On The Wall

Mirror Mirror On The Wall

By Graham Fitch, 2012-09-13
Posted in: General tips, Practising

I once had to do up someone else's tie and found the only way I could do it was to stand behind and pretend I was putting it on myself.…

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Tags: Chopinchopin revolutionary etudehabitinversionleopold godowskymarc-andre hamelinmemoryrudolph ganzscriabin nocturne for the left handsymmetrical inversion
Mirror Mirror On The Wall
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

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