How to Make Your Piano Sing Like a Violin:
Perfecting Your Touch at the Piano
by Larry Greenfield

Think of all the things you have done with your hands today: washing, dressing, eating, etc. All of these actions seem commonplace, because we possess the remarkable feature of opposable thumbs. Playing the piano, however, is different -- not only from a myraid of life activities, but also from playing other musical instruments. Playing the piano, in fact, is one of the few things in life which requires the thumbs not to act in opposition to other fingers, but to act in concert with them. To access the dexterity and sensitivity in the thumbs, to bring the thumb muscles into delicate balance, you must do something to offset the restrictions imposed by the paino: an exercise specifically for the thumbs.

Back and Paderewski, among other keyboard giants, stressed the fact that the thumbs were the most important finger in playing the keyboard. This book teaches you how to improve the way your thumbs are used, and provides a complete picture of exercises for all the other fingers as well -- including solving Shumann's famous dilemma about the constriction of the fourth finger, to give your paino a singing sound. You have only to try it to feel the dramatic difference this technique will make in your touch.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 108 pages
Publisher: Unlimited Publishing;
Edition: illustrated edition
Date: 2001
ISBN-10: 1588320189
ISBN-13: 978-1588320186
Condition: Brand new copy! Overstock from publisher. Book and pages are clean and crisp. Been sitting on a shelf. In stock and immediate shipping!
Category: Self-Help, Music;

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