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Piano Tip # 1 "Losing Interest before Mastering a Piece"
“I feel that by the time I’ve mastered a piece, it has lost its luster and its appeal to me.” I’ve heard this so many times from my students! I learned a method of memorizing in Russia that uses small segments of the musical piece hands separately without combining them until memorized. My experience has been that most students learn by ...
Piano Tip # 2 "The Angle of the Fingers - for Phrasing and Sonority",
The angle of the fingers and hand while playing piano is very important and influences the volume, tone, and color of the sound. With a flat finger and a gentle caressing touch, you can achieve a quiet sound which moves flowingly from one tone to another, carried and phrased by the wrist... With a more curved finger, you produce a vibrant rich sound which almost transforms into a "beam of light" in the...
Piano Tip #3: "Practicing Arpeggios and Scales"
Very often, I use a particular method of practicing passages of arpeggios and scales within a piece. Separate them into groups on notes, assembling the groups that fit in one position of the hand... Using a chords or "clusters" as a means of...
Plus NEW Piano Tip no. 4 "On Phrasing"
Phrases live and breathe when the body as a whole is employed in the creation of sound: your wrists and arms are utilized in phrasing, your physical breath is engaged and in sync with each phrase, and your breathing responds to...
Eleonora Lvov - Russian Concert Pianist and Master Teacher - concertpianist1@gmail.com - (941) 358-0235
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