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Topic: List of piano techniques and methods?  (Read 11340 times)

Offline filovirus

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List of piano techniques and methods?
on: September 09, 2013, 09:50:43 PM
I am new here. I have read through a lot of Berhand's older posts. I am currently learning piano without a teacher using Rachel Jimenez's "Fundamental Keys" method book. For reasons I don't want to explain, I will not be getting a teacher for myself. I am supplementing the method book using various level repertoire books, including Snell, Celebration Series, and Exploring Piano Classics (my favorite of the three).

So my question is this: Does anyone know if Berhard ever posted a master list of all the techniques or elements that he made sure his students understood? For instance, did he have a list to check off when a student learned staccato notes, or "A" major, or mordants, etc.?  I know he didn't use a published method and I was just wondering how he kept track of student progression and knowledge. I would like to have a similar list to keep track of my own learning. I suppose I could make my own, but I don't want to miss anything or search through method books to see their progression through the levels. If I have to I will, but why reinvent the wheel if it has already been done before?

Thanks in advance.

Offline worov

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Re: List of piano techniques and methods?
Reply #1 on: September 10, 2013, 09:38:49 PM
Check out this thread where bernhard lists several techniques main from Fink, Sandor and Cortot (especially reply #9) :

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=12502.0

Methods ? Err... Bernhard doesn't use methods books as he says in this thread (reply #3) :

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=4336.0

He advises books on technique though. Check this thread where he lists books on piano technique (especially reply #34) :

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,5298.0.html

He especially recommend the books of Abby Whiteside. Let me quote him :

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Anyway, I have read the Abby Whiteside books many years ago (and keep reading them and always finding new things in them) and I can say that she has been one of the greatest influences in my way of thinking about the piano.

You can read the original thread here (reply #98) :
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=1808.50

Hope this helps.
 

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