Monday, July 4, 2011

110704

piano fitness is feeling freedom! continued training of the 2nd center's free-falling arm strengths with each practice.  balanced sitting is essential.

playing
ebb tide
and so it goes
etudes 10 3&4
consolation/claire
waltz
inventions
1st arabesque
k 331 1st, 3rd
reverie
vincent

Sunday, July 3, 2011

110703

piano fitness is developmental.  from one day's training to the next new awareness develops and listening closely, the tone is changed

Saturday, July 2, 2011

110702

piano fitness is musical meditation.

learning
op 53
  intro/a section continues to improve
  transition/b section-practiced
  c section some octave practice
  d section-some focused practice-hands alone!

training
10 pairs
5 6ths
5 finger patterns-2 counts
 

playing
dizzy fingers
house on the ocean
m-bb sonata i
op 10 no 4
debussy prelude
am waltz

Friday, July 1, 2011

110701

piano fitness is physical physics.  fundamentally force=mass X acceleration.  levers and angles for maximum efficiency surrendering to gravity.   listening and letting go.
still learning!!!

Thursday, June 30, 2011

110630

piano fitness feels good.  an introduction to music world through feeling sound.

Monday, June 27, 2011

110627

piano fitness communicates.   the combination of levers make up the vocabulary of movement

Sunday, June 26, 2011