Bite-Sized Techniques
This is a collection of reasonably short videos, each of which tackle a very specific technical or performance question.
These are by no means a deep dive, but they do provide a substantive overview of how various specific techniques should be approached, practiced, and perfected. These can come in very handy if you run into difficulties during a piece you might be learning, where for example, an especially challenging passage of arpeggios, or octaves, or fast fingerwork etc. is required.
Within this collection, you should be able to find simple and readily intelligible solutions to the vast majority of technical issues that could potentially arise in the course of learning piano music.
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Technique
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Arpeggios
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Trills
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Fast Octaves
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Improved Hand Speed: Getting the Hands to Play Faster
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Inaccurate Playing: How to Clean Up Your Playing
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Gaps in Phrases
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Voicing and Balancing Your Playing
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Improving the Left Hand
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Stress Becoming Tension
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Synchronization of Hands: Especially for Fast Notes
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Dynamics
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Jumping Up and Down the Keyboard
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Playing Smoothly
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Strengthening the Pinky
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Performance
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Memory Slips
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Public Performances
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Recording Yourself on Camera
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Lack of Progress
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Practicing Old and New Pieces
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Mastering a Piece of Music
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Practice Time
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When Fingerings Differ by Edition
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Picking a New Piece
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I'm My Own Worst Critic
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Improved Stamina
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Memorizing Fingerings
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Staying Motivated to Practice
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What is Tempo
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