The Floating Fermata
Graham Fitch explains how one of his favourite day-to day-practice tools, the Floating Fermata works.
Spring Cleaning a Repertoire Piece
Do you have a favourite piece you just love to play, but end up feeling disappointed that you're just not doing the piece (or yourself) justice each time you drag…
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…
Tools for Memorisation
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…
Top Ten Tips for Trouble Spots
It is possible to hack away at a trouble spot for several minutes, constantly repeating it and beating it into submission, and then be able to manage it, more or…
More On Stopping
In my quest to establish in the practice session as many of the reflexes we're going to use in actual performance as possible, I have come to see that stopping…
To Stop Or Not To Stop?
I recall an infuriating time with a house guest who found herself confined to the kitchen while I was practising in the living room. Every time she heard the playing…