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Offline Sekoul

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exercises at school
on: July 10, 2004, 10:27:43 PM
Hi, can someone please suggest any exercises i could do to improve my technique but without a piano. I mean sumthing i could do in the bus, at school, at a restaurant... basically whenever i'm bored and my hands are available.

Offline Snappy Joe

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Re: exercises at school
Reply #1 on: July 10, 2004, 10:44:11 PM
You can always tap your fingers, move them around, trill with different fingers, do some rhythms on your legs or.. compose music in your mind! :) (or whistle a tune whilst imagining playing it and visualise it through your fingers!)
 F. Liszt

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Re: exercises at school
Reply #2 on: July 10, 2004, 11:11:21 PM
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. (Hunter Thompson)

Offline donjuan

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Re: exercises at school
Reply #3 on: July 11, 2004, 07:03:40 AM
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Hi, can someone please suggest any exercises i could do to improve my technique but without a piano. I mean sumthing i could do in the bus, at school, at a restaurant... basically whenever i'm bored and my hands are available.

I know how you feel...take a look at this thread I started to get some help on what to do during my boring summer school program..
https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=stud;action=display;num=1089253491
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