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A reminder that these blog entries are not ‘timely.’ They do not address issues that relate to the present news of the world. They address perennial issues faced by most pianists when striving to excel in their playing. I encourage you to search through the posts to find the ones that will yield the greatest benefit to you.
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Flow, Versus a Sequence of Separate Notes
August 23, 2019
H.P’s lesson on 8/13/19 Menuet from Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin
Joe: “Our recent work has focused on flow versus the pointillism of notes. As we go on today, let’s use two very restricted definitions of these two terms, ‘Notes’ will simply mean knowing what notes to play at the next moment and ‘flow’ will simply mean getting to those notes from the preceding notes without even the most minimal of hesitation.
Ornaments, and the Seeming Length of Quarter Notes
August 21, 2019
A.B.’s lesson on 8/8/19 Prelude in Eb Minor, Book I.
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A Cluster of Thoughts
August 7, 2019
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Getting lost in a large group of notes beamed together
How to Physically Relax: Chopin Edition
August 5, 2019
S.B.’s lesson on 8/3/19
-Nocturne, Op 48 / 1, in C Minor
A Chopin Nocturne; the Boundary Between Heard and Imagined Sound
July 31, 2019
S.B.’s lesson on 7/11/19: Chopin: Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48 / 1.
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