Engaging Your Mind Learning a New Piece
Graham Fitch shows how to use a tool he calls Personalised Pattern Recognition when learning a new piece.
Gershwin, Schumann and Balancing Voices
Our latest Practice Clinic recording features answers to questions on balancing voices, reducing tension, articulation, shaping and achieving rhythmic fluency in works by Bach, Scarlatti, Liszt, Debussy, Schumann and Gershwin.
Bach Partita in B Flat Video Walkthroughs
Even though they were among the last keyboard suites Bach wrote, the six Partitas, BWV 825–830, appeared from 1726 to 1730 as Clavier-Übung I, the first of Bach's works to be published under his direction. The format follows the…
The Other End of the Telescope
A respected colleague teaching at the College level used to challenge his new students in their first lesson with him by getting them to play almost impossibly slowly with the…
Take a Rest
Following on from last week's post on the floating fermata, I would like to share another practice idea involving the planning of deliberate stops. Instead of an arbitrary length of…
On Touch (Part One)
I was recently asked by Pianist Magazine to write a series of three articles on touch, which turned out to be more challenging than I had anticipated. The second article…