Daily Technical Exercises

[affettuoso]

Hey guys!

I’m currently working towards taking my DipABRSM exam.  I don’t want to lose my technique and need to keep building strong fingers in order to be able to play fast and firm. 

I don’t suppose anyone has a ready-made list of scales and arpeggios I could do each day?  I never know how many and which scales/arpeggios to do each day without over or under doing it without getting bored or frustrated.

Hopefully someone will understand and have a solution!

Kind Regards,

affettuoso

[rc]

Any system will do, invent one for yourself.

For example: go around the circle of 5ths practicing each scale, relative minor (harmonic + melodic), tonic chord + inversions, arpeggios, 7ths.  You could practice in a key until you meet an objective or just go at it for a week before moving onto the next key.

Very important to have an objective before you begin.  Depends on where you are and what you want to do.  You could aim for accuracy, do things like repeat the figuration 4X without error, or one-offs immediately without error.  When it gets easy up the speed. 

Or you could practice dynamics - crescendo/decresendo in infinite variety, LH cres while RH decres.  pp as possible.  FFFFFFF AS POSSIBLE!  Accenting certain notes.

Perhaps you may get tired of doing the figurations in order and want to practice in 3rds or other variations.  Maybe the chords get boring and you'd rather try playnig them as alberti basses or some other pattern.

Be creative with your approach and the possibilities are endless.  Pick a system and objectives and go, any will do.  I want to go practice just talking about this

[rc]

Oh I should mention too - just as important as what you're practicing is that you're developing concentration.  To be able to focus on command is the ultimate skill.