 | Fundamentals of Piano Practice eBook: Chuan C. ChangPrice : $8.00 (lowest price)
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Product Description :
This is the best book ever written on how to practice at the piano! Learn the most efficient practice methods, musical playing, relaxation, and Mental Play (playing the piano or the music in your mind) which has been neglected by most teachers; all great musicians used it, yet mostly failed to teach it systematically. Mental play impacts every aspect of piano playing: memorizing, acquiring technique, controlling nervousness, developing performance skills, playing musically, acquiring absolute pitch, composing, improvisation, etc. Genius is more created than born; most of what had been attributed to talent are simple knowledge-based solutions that we can all learn, and taught in this book. It explains why exercise methods such as Hanon, Czerny, etc., should be avoided because they delay your development as a pianist. Instead, we must learn the quickest methods of technique acquisition, such as practicing hands separately and then together, segmental practice, outlining, use of Parallel Sets ("Chord Attack"), the incredibly diverse hand motions, eliminating speed walls, etc. Improved memory can raise the effective IQ; memory is an associative process based on algorithms and music is such an algorithm, enabling us to become super-memorizers with hours of repertoire. Learning piano makes you smarter and teaches project management. Includes chapter on tuning your piano. The chromatic scale, temperaments, circle of fifths, etc., are explained from mathematical, historical, and music theory points of view.
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Product Detail :
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 1348 KB
- Print Length: 266 pages
- Publisher: Booksurge (June 17, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002DUCX00
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About The Author :
| Born in Taiwan, 1938; lived in Japan, 1945-1958; started piano lessons in 1949, then received a BS degree from RPI, Troy, NY (1962), and Ph. D. in Physics from Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (1967), USA. Worked as analytical research scientist, 1967-1998, mainly in electron microscopy and spectroscopy, at the Bell Telephone companies in NJ. This book originated from observations on the piano methods of Mlle. Yvonne Combe, who taught our two daughters; while writing it, I discovered that piano pedagogy had never been researched, documented, and analyzed properly; therefore, this book is my attempt at correcting that deficiency. It is not a definitive finished product: it is just the beginning of a sea change in piano pedagogy. |
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