Strauss, Scriabin & a Funeral March
Our latest Practice Clinic recording features practice suggestions and exercises for Strauss’s Blue Danube Waltz, Liszt’s Romance in E Minor, a Scriabin Prelude and the Funeral March From Chopin’s second Sonata.
Hold Me, I’m a Fermata!
Following on from last week's post on rests, I'm going to move on to the fermata - or the pause. We find this marked on rests as well as on…
Five Fingers
My piano chum, Leon Whitesell, has a brand new Facebook group called Piano Playing Questions. In a recent post, Leon referred to the five-finger exercise formulae of famous Russian teacher,…