Questions about Fink's book, Mastering Piano Technique.

[nocturneop2]

I've read through all of Chang's book and started on Fink's book, but I'm unsure on a few things. Fink says to start each exercise, one at a time, until it becomes ingrained into your subconscious. I understand that, but there are a lot of exercises and I'm not sure how long it's going to take me to ingrain just one. Would it be a good idea to do several exercises at the same time or just focus on one until it's ingrained? It seems a little crazy to spend weeks on just one exercise, when you could be doing several at a time.

[ajspiano]

I havent really read fink very thoroughly yet, but i have to say get the video. Everything will make more sense when you can see it rather than just read it.

I think the initial exercises can be done together, ie. Rotation, wrist snaps, finger snaps, finger curls, and the shoulder pendulum thing. Sorry if I've got the names wrong for any of these..

After those you can do the pullin and pushing circles and such, they seem to be piecing together the parts worked on in the other exercise.

Further on he talks about the keyboard symetary, playing chromatids beginning on D. Those exercises can be started immediately I feel..


Still, I havent read it properly or done much of it so take my advice pretty carefully.

[nocturneop2]

I do have the video and I was hoping that it would answer my question, but it never explains if it's okay to do multiple exercises in one session. Currently I'm trying to "groove" the movements until I move to the next one.

[keyboardclass]

I was in one of his workshops years ago but can't remember anything of what you're asking.  Doing as many exercises as you have time for with the fingers/hands/arms per day can only be a good thing though.  Really concentrate on losing tension as you do.

[keypeg]

I have the book and the video.  Having both is definitely a plus.  For me personally I found the first section on posture important, because it also debunked a few posture myths that have been around and are harmful.  If you weren't subject to them you won't notice, but if you were, likely you will.