Piano Technique
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Hello everyone, could you give me some advice on choosing the repertoire for the III year of the piano bachelor's degree? I am an adult, so I would like to perform a program that is not too...
Hello everyone, I am studying Chopin's Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1 and I have reached the double movement. Although I had no difficulty in the part marked "poco più lento," I am encountering enorm...
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Frank
Hello everyone. Among the pieces I have decided to perform for my graduation exam is Chopin's Waltz No. 14. I wanted to ask you how to execute the arpeggios present in the first 8 bars of th...
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pianoexpert
In both cases, of a hand that is too dry or a sweaty hand, the fingertip tends to slip on the piano keys. I have the problem of dry hands and it takes fifteen minutes before the fingertips a...
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Thesimon
Guys, I would like to ask for an opinion on a simple matter that, in my view, can hide some pitfalls. I'll get straight to the point: how do you play repeated chords (even simple octaves) at...
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pianoexpert
Good morning everyone, I am a former pop musician and I would like to kindly ask you how to make Logic Pro X (which I recently purchased and am therefore inexperienced with) recognize my Nov...
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Thesimon
I thought I knew how to play something until I got my hands on the transcription score of Schubert-Liszt's Die Forelle and listened a thousand times to Jorge Bolet's recording. But how many...
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mike
Good evening everyone, in the piece below there is a dashed line between two notes that I don't know how to play; should I play the first note and the second note joined by the line with the...
In piece No. 6, attached, there should be some diminuendo if I'm not mistaken, but I don't know what the little triangle above the notes means and furthermore the sixteenth note has a small...
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pianoexpert
Good evening, I have a doubt about how to achieve the legato at measure 121 of the waltz in question: . How do you move from B-D# to C#-E? Do I release B-D# simultaneously and go to C#-E, or...
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Hi guys, I am in my final year of the three-year First Level degree. This year involves the most difficult hurdle: a choice of 6 preludes and fugues from Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. Ob...
I was wondering what makes a musician what they are... I can outline fundamentally three points. 1) The first is surely TALENT. We could also call it predisposition, or musical sensitivity....
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Hello everyone, I am new to this forum... I would like to ask for an opinion on my study program. I am 16 years old and before the piano I had never touched an instrument (except for the flu...
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Frank
I am writing to get some ideas on how to solve two problems I have noticed with my hand positioning, which I believe are related. The first is that I tend to play with my fingers, especially...
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pianoexpert
Hello, a brief introduction: I was trained in piano playing using the so-called Italian technique with many in-depth studies with the Vitali school in particular, to which I turned at a cert...
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Pierpier
Hi Guys! I have noticed that many pianists have problems regarding hand positioning. What is your main problem regarding this topic?
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Frank
Hello everyone, I have been following you for a long time and the time has come to ask for a little help; I will briefly describe my situation.. as a former student, I have resumed as a self...
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"A pot of hot water is much better than many exercises" used to say Glenn Gould, who apparently would immerse his arms in hot water for half an hour before sitting at the piano rather than d...
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Thesimon
Repetition always said Neuhaus is the mother of learning; we need to repeat to learn a piece, to perfect it and last but not least, to play it at speed.. Repetition, at least as far as I am...
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pianoexpert
Recently I happened to practice for a certain period on an antique upright piano, a late nineteenth-century Pleyel upright restored in the early 2000s, despite a series of rather evident "li...
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maquieto
Hello everyone, i would need some advice on how to use the pedal in the famous “Clair de Lune” from Debussy's Suite bergamasque. My edition simply provides the indication “con sordina” at th...
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maquieto
Good evening guys. I wanted to ask you for some advice because I feel a bit "desperate". I have to start the second year of the first level and I will have to perform 6 preludes and six fugu...
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maquieto
I bought the Henle urtext edition score of the Goldberg Variations very boldly, sure that I could breeze through the Aria in two minutes and the rest quite easily, except for a few pieces......
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maquieto
Hello everyone! In recent months, I have realized how important it is to see and hear oneself while playing (both during practice and performance). In particular for 2 reasons: 1. to objecti...
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maquieto
The Henle Urtext always reports fingerings arranged in a scattered and incomplete manner. I always finger however it seems most correct to me, and various teachers have also always told me t...
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