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‘Bravo!’ This is what we often hear after attending a stunning performance. To some performers, a ninety minutes performance can be short. But how much hard work and long hours of practice is there behind a ninety minutes performance? Ninety hours? Ninety days? Or even ninety weeks? What do they actually do when they say they are ‘practicing’? |
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Memory is a curious business. The question of memorizing is a first and last one in all music teaching, learning and practicing. Unless one understands the nature of memorizing, one cannot learn merely the notes of a piece in the quickest and most effective way.
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A lot of pianists perform with different parts of their body i.e. involving their head and arms (not to mention their fingers of course…). It is sometimes the case where, a non-musician finds performance with body movement more expressive than the one who sit still like a xoanon. We often see pianist raising their arms above their head. And yet, are those movement or gesture necessary in performing?
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Scale playing is one of the first things that a child is taught at the piano. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 would perhaps be the right hand fingering for most of the beginners (having the little thumb crossing under the third finger as we play the scale). And this set of fingering, usually combines with the popular C major scale - despite the fact that it is the most difficult scale to master.
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