My favorite expert on technique started a blog this week! Adult students will find this particularly interesting. Pop on over and check it out.
Here an excerpt:
(10 Practice Techniques for your “toolkit”)
1. Separate Hands Practice
2. Practising in dotted rhythms
3. Chunking
4. Blocking chords
5. Varying the touch
6. Practising backwards, adding a bar at a time
7. Mental practice – analysing keys and fingerings
8. Practising slowly, loudly, lifting the fingers high
9. Conscious listening for balancing voices and shaping phrases
10.Exaggerating dynamic differences
