Practicing piano scales – four advanced exercises Today’s article expands on the two previous posts regarding technical practice methods (How to practice Hanon Exercises and Improving piano scales) by introducing four advanced exercises for practicing piano scales. The word ‘advanced exercise’ is not used here because only more advanced pianists will be able to benefit … Read more
Improving piano scales – foundations of piano technique Today’s article discusses two important aspects of learning piano scales: the technical positioning, and hand and thumb shifts to improve the evenness and speed (over 200bpm with four notes per beat). Please note that technical foundations for scales are a vast topic, and today’s article focuses only … Read more
Piano technique How to practice Hanon exercises? There is a lot of controversy regarding the application of Hanon exercises. Some of the criticism addresses a rather ‘unmusical’ nature of those exercises and the tedious aspect of mindless repetition often applied to such technical drills. In today’s article, I would like to mention several piano practising … Read more
Piano technique Piano octave exercises for small hands Performing double octaves on the piano is a challenging task, particularly if your hands are small. To help you develop a comfortable and accurate octave technique, I would like to give away two short octave etudes (completely free) in today’s article. All etudes are written with young … Read more
Piano technique Piano double octaves – find the best fingering for your hand type In today’s article, I would like to discuss the traditional fingering for double octaves in piano: using a fourth and fifth finger – and occasionally the third. After many years of practice, I found that for my hands (which are not … Read more