It took a student of mine to show me how to “think outside the box” in terms of ulnar deviation, one of the bugaboos of piano technique.
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Chord theory as a part of piano technique
In that same Bartok #20, the other hand has a series of chords that looks very simple to a trained musician. But I realized that Marco was processing these notes by naming them individually – he had no concept of what they constituted: a chord. It was as if he could spell each word but not recognize the group of letters as a word. This of course slowed things down considerably.
Piano technique that brings music to life neurologically
“When he got the arm choreography he got rhythmic life, ability and accuracy. He had acquired a new ability, a new mode of relating to the musical line…”