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Why a Healthy Technique is Important

Why a Healthy Technique is Important

By Informance, 2020-07-09
Posted in: Technique

This weeks’ guest blog post by Penelope Roskell looks at the importance of a healthy technique and how to go about acquiring it. *** *** *** Should we suffer for…

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Tags: hand positionhealthy playinginjurytechniquetension
Why a Healthy Technique is Important
Q&A: How Can We Use Rotation in a Scale?

Q&A: How Can We Use Rotation in a Scale?

By Graham Fitch, 2014-05-23
Posted in: General tips

Q. You speak about forearm rotation in your eBook and in your YouTube video on scales and arpeggios, but I think of rotation as a large movement for things like…

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Tags: arpeggiosbeethovenDorothy Taubmanforearmforearm rotationJulian Martinjumpsrotary motionrotationscalessonatastrengthtension
Q&A: How Can We Use Rotation in a Scale?
Chess or Checkers?

Chess or Checkers?

By Graham Fitch, 2013-10-11
Posted in: Teaching

I have written extensively about the subject of slow practice on this blog and elsewhere. Since slow practice is such a cornerstone of our practice routine I don't apologise for making a…

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Tags: angela hewittchildrenfeetfingersinjurypianist magazinepractice toolsSlowlySteven Osbornetension
Chess or Checkers?
Some Thoughts on Mental Tension

Some Thoughts on Mental Tension

By Graham Fitch, 2013-08-03
Posted in: Performing

When we think of tension in piano playing, we correctly label this as negative - it is a thing that hampers us and our objective should be to locate its…

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Tags: anxietychildrenconfidenceerrorsmental tensionpedagogyperformancepositive attitudeteachingtension
Some Thoughts on Mental Tension
Snakes And Ladders

Snakes And Ladders

By Graham Fitch, 2012-08-29
Posted in: Teaching

In life, we repeat certain ways of doing things until they become habits - until we become unconscious of them and do them without thinking (and without the need to…

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Tags: concentrationevaluationhabitteachingtensiontrouble spots
Snakes And Ladders
Eliminating Tension(2): Braced Conditions Of The Hand And Wrist

Eliminating Tension(2): Braced Conditions Of The Hand And Wrist

By Graham Fitch, 2012-07-12
Posted in: Practising, Teaching

Yes, I know I was going to talk about forearm rotation this week, but inspiration took me elsewhere. I'll get to that soon, I promise! This post deals with how…

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Eliminating Tension(2): Braced Conditions Of The Hand And Wrist
Eliminating Tension (1)

Eliminating Tension (1)

By Graham Fitch, 2012-07-05
Posted in: Practising, Teaching

There are many reasons for tension at the keyboard. Faulty training is an obvious one, inefficient use of the body another. Yet tension does not always have its origins in…

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Tags: finger independenceteachingtension
Eliminating Tension (1)
More On Octave Displacements

More On Octave Displacements

By Graham Fitch, 2012-06-29
Posted in: Practising

Annoyingly, last week's post on eliminating tension (which was to be the first of two or three on the subject) has itself been eliminated. It disappeared into the ether when…

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Tags: beethovenchordsclosed handoctavesteachingtension
More On Octave Displacements
A Short Essay on the Life of a Pianist

A Short Essay on the Life of a Pianist

By Graham Fitch, 2012-05-12
Posted in: General tips

After a recent post, I received a request in the form of a comment from a reader, suggesting I might expand on my last paragraph. The last paragraph was as…

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Tags: adele marcuschildrenerrorsmaria curciomemoryperformancepractising the pianoprofessionalsviatoslav richterteachingtension
A Short Essay on the Life of a Pianist
Practice v Performance

Practice v Performance

By Graham Fitch, 2011-12-10
Posted in: Performing, Practising

A colleague put this quotation up on his Facebook wall this week, and while these golden words are from one of the greatest violinists of the last century, they apply…

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Tags: inspirationJascha Heifetzperformancepiano pedagogypiano performancepracticingpractisingtension
Practice v Performance

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