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Offline mycrabface

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Playing technique?
on: June 28, 2007, 10:42:00 AM
Is there a way to play the piano that allows the sound to travel? How to?
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Re: Playing technique?
Reply #1 on: June 28, 2007, 11:24:19 AM
Is there a way to play the piano that allows the sound to travel? How to?

Basically an expensive big, good and well prepared piano.
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Re: Playing technique?
Reply #2 on: June 28, 2007, 12:07:36 PM
Is there a way to play the piano that allows the sound to travel? How to?

Yes, there is  :D

But it is not about how to press the keys, but that you have a clear imagination what sound you want to produce - and then, when practising, you have to listen very carefully, how the real sound at the moment is - and how you want it to be. If you do this for a long time, your sound will get better. Of course there are differences in what your arms, hands and fingers do, but you can find the right movement only with your ears, not with your eyes or with your brain    ;)
If it doesn't work - try something different!

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Re: Playing technique?
Reply #3 on: June 29, 2007, 10:23:03 AM
Yes, there is  :D

But it is not about how to press the keys, but that you have a clear imagination what sound you want to produce - and then, when practising, you have to listen very carefully, how the real sound at the moment is - and how you want it to be. If you do this for a long time, your sound will get better. Of course there are differences in what your arms, hands and fingers do, but you can find the right movement only with your ears, not with your eyes or with your brain    ;)
Mmm... My friend's piano teacher teaches my friend how to press. She says she's using up the same energy in pressing normally, but she's pressing it in a different way. She was trying to teach me how to do it, but I still don't get it. She was pressing the end of the keys (as per normal) but using only her fingertips to play (like when you point down, your fingertip hits the key)  :P
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Re: Playing technique?
Reply #4 on: June 29, 2007, 10:36:30 AM
Mmm... My friend's piano teacher teaches my friend how to press. She says she's using up the same energy in pressing normally, but she's pressing it in a different way. She was trying to teach me how to do it, but I still don't get it. She was pressing the end of the keys (as per normal) but using only her fingertips to play (like when you point down, your fingertip hits the key)  :P

I don't understand what's the difference to "normal"(?) playing - but what is the goal of her special technique?
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Re: Playing technique?
Reply #5 on: June 30, 2007, 03:45:36 AM
I don't understand what's the difference to "normal"(?) playing - but what is the goal of her special technique?
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