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Re:How I Practice Piano by parkersweb on Sunday May 09, 2021 @03:43AM (#27094058)
After about 9 years learning piano as a kid I had one year of tuition from a concert pianist when I went to University.

He was an excellent teacher - one of the things he majored on was ‘blind’ familiarity with the keyboard. He would get you to close your eyes, then ask you to pick out, for example, all the Cs on the keyboard going up the octaves. Made a huge difference to my confidence in positioning my hands at speed…

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Re:How I Practice Piano by notimetorelax on Sunday May 09, 2021 @07:53AM (#27095248)
This sound amazing, is there any teaching material I can buy to start with it on my own?
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Re:How I Practice Piano by parkersweb on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:24AM (#27103554)
To be honest a lot of the guidance was verbal. The only book we used was called ‘Help Yourself to Sight Reading a Practical Tutor for Pianists’ by Daphne Sandercock. The writing style was quite severe and had phrases like ‘a fault common to weaker pupils at this stage…’
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