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Topic: Don't know where to start with technique exercises?  (Read 1514 times)

Offline spiano95

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Don't know where to start with technique exercises?
on: January 13, 2013, 01:20:44 PM
I am a grade 8 student (LCM board) and besides the usual scales and arpeggios, I want to look into a few books for developing technique. What's my best bet for this level?
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Offline lloyd_cdb

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Re: Don't know where to start with technique exercises?
Reply #1 on: January 13, 2013, 09:26:30 PM
Maybe some of the high level czerny books for reinforcement?  I don't know, it seems to be a strange question for someone at that level. Maybe just expanding your repertoire to pieces with technical aspects that you might be avoiding. 
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Offline xdjuicebox

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Re: Don't know where to start with technique exercises?
Reply #2 on: January 14, 2013, 06:47:39 AM
To be honest, books that emphasis repetitive, nonmusical exercises should be avoided. Your time is better spent playing the music directly, and if you have trouble with technique, you can use things like chord attack and parallel sets to get them up to speed.
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Offline kujiraya

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Re: Don't know where to start with technique exercises?
Reply #3 on: January 14, 2013, 10:50:33 AM
Maybe the first step would be to identify which passages are difficult for you to play in the pieces of music that you are learning, and to isolate the problems/issues/weaknesses which are making each of these passages difficult for you.
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