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Tips for Tackling Trills

Tips for Tackling Trills

By Informance, 2022-05-26
Posted in: Technique

In our guest post this week, Penelope Roskell provides some tips for practising and playing trills.

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Tags: czernyornamentstrills
Tips for Tackling Trills
Chopin, Left Hand Evenness, Runs and Trills

Chopin, Left Hand Evenness, Runs and Trills

By Informance, 2021-09-23
Posted in: Practising

In this month’s practice clinic, Graham Fitch answered questions on various topics in works by Mozart, Chopin, Clementi and Grieg.

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Tags: Chopinchopin nocturnechopin waltzGriegGrieg ButterflyMozartmozart k332runstrills
Chopin, Left Hand Evenness, Runs and Trills
Q-Spots Series: Bach Invention in D Minor

Q-Spots Series: Bach Invention in D Minor

By Graham Fitch, 2019-09-24
Posted in: Practice tools

For my first piece in the Q-Spots Series I have chosen Bach's Two-Part Invention in D minor, and identified two Q-spots that very often cause players to falter (click here…

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Tags: inventionsjs bachpractice toolsq-spotsquarantiningtrills
Q-Spots Series: Bach Invention in D Minor
Secrets of Beautiful Trills

Secrets of Beautiful Trills

By Graham Fitch, 2016-12-08
Posted in: Technique

Blog post on the secrets of producing beautiful trills at the piano.

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Tags: fingeringSchubert Impromptu in G flattrills
Secrets of Beautiful Trills
Practising Chopin’s “Ocean” Etude

Practising Chopin’s “Ocean” Etude

By Graham Fitch, 2013-09-20
Posted in: Practising

In last week's post on ties and repeated notes, I referred to Chopin's Ocean Etude (more properly known as op. 25 no. 12). A reader contacted me asking if I…

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Tags: accentalfred cortotChopin Ocean Etude op. 25 no. 12errorsrepeated notesskeletontied notestouchtrillstrouble spotsWalter Cosand
Practising Chopin’s “Ocean” Etude
Tied Up

Tied Up

By Graham Fitch, 2013-09-13
Posted in: Practising

I was at Steinway Hall here in London yesterday making another series of video demonstrations for Pianist Magazine. One of the demonstrations was on how to manage trills. If we…

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Tags: Bjs bachChopinetudeornamentsrepeated notesScarlattisonatatied notestrills
Tied Up
The Trouble With Ornaments (Part Two)

The Trouble With Ornaments (Part Two)

By Graham Fitch, 2011-04-05
Posted in: Practising

Thank you for all your feedback from the first part of this post. Your comments are most appreciated, and I will respond to them all (please click here if you'd…

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The Trouble With Ornaments (Part Two)
The Trouble With Ornaments (Part One)

The Trouble With Ornaments (Part One)

By Graham Fitch, 2011-03-28
Posted in: Practising

The year was 1978 and I had been assigned the G major French Suite of J. S. Bach by my piano professor at the RCM. I duly went off to…

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Tags: js bachornamentstheorytrills
The Trouble With Ornaments (Part One)

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