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Piano Student: I don't know what I want to hear? by Shirley Kirsten
A journey from the unknown to the known...
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Piano Students as Composers: Stimulating a Creative Learning Environment by Shirley Kirsten
How to Help Children Compose in detail with musical selections as examples, and student art work....
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Piano Study and the value of singing by Shirley Kirsten
I discuss singing and cultural inhibitions as my introduction to this writing....
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Piano Study: Does counting out beats have to be robotic? by Shirley Kirsten
Embedded videos dis-COUNT this belief....
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Piano Study: Learning in deep layers and loving it by Shirley Kirsten
A divine Prelude is offered as an example...
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Piano Study: Tempo shifts from childhood to adulthood by Shirley Kirsten
My growing awareness about a particular marking...
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Piano Teacher Stories from the War Zone! Part One by Shirley Kirsten
A veteran music educator shares her earliest student years in St. John Canada, circa WW II....
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Piano Teachers, students, and reluctant farewells by Shirley Kirsten
The poignancy of farewells to teachers.....
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Piano Technician call back: Please fix these notes! by Shirley Kirsten
A video denmonstration of what needed repair. (BEFORE and AFTER sequences)...
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Piano Technique all Bundled into one Collection by Shirley Kirsten
and such beautiful music accompanies....
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Piano Technique and Mental Imagery (Playing into a Bowl of Molasses) by Shirley Kirsten
Certain Catchwords and images go a long way in developing a fluid technique....
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Piano Technique in the PLAY-ground: Thumb to thumb swings and more by Shirley Kirsten
tips on smoothing out scales and arpeggios...
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Piano Technique is about flexibility not finger strength by Shirley Kirsten
That's why meaningless repetition and finger pumping won't work!...
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Piano Technique: Presence of mind and Breathing through scales by Shirley Kirsten
Two sample lessons are included....
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Piano Technique: a romping, rollicking C# minor Arpeggio by Shirley Kirsten
A myriad of ways to practice...
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Piano Technique: Arpeggios! by Shirley Kirsten
The art of playing through video samples...
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Piano Technique: Avoiding pencil point playing by Shirley Kirsten
How to create a beautiful singing tone....
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Piano Technique: Be a Blockhead when learning Bach by Shirley Kirsten
Applying blocking strategies in mastering a two-part Invention...
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Piano Technique: Beautiful Chord Playing by Shirley Kirsten
How to create sonorous chords in the singing tone style....
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Piano Technique: Boosting the Left Hand by Shirley Kirsten
Pointers on developing a more reliable and expressive left hand....
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Piano Technique: Breathing through inverted chords and arpeggios by Shirley Kirsten
Strings of double root chords are unraveled with supple wrist motions....
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Piano Technique: crossed hands, leaps, and shifty eyeballs by Shirley Kirsten
How to navigate through daredevil escapades in a superfast Scarlatti Sonata (Allegrissimo) See WORDPRESS link if attachments not visible....
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Piano Technique: Five-finger positions are good for you by Shirley Kirsten
And the reasons why---...
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Piano Technique: Flexible wrist/forward motion by Shirley Kirsten
Burgmuller's "Inquietude" requires a supple wrist for sensitive shaping of lines, even at a brisk tempo. Slowing everything down and taking baby prac...
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Piano Technique: Fluidly played arpeggios by Shirley Kirsten
Tips on how to smooth out arpeggios to four octaves, legato/staccato...
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Piano Technique: Forearm vs. Finger Staccato by Shirley Kirsten
I explore Forearm and Finger applied staccato with videotaped examples....
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Piano Technique: Geography, Choreography and Muscle Memory by Shirley Kirsten
un-snagging e minor scales...
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Piano technique: hand crossovers, wrist spring forward in Scarlatti by Shirley Kirsten
A step by step guide from slow practice to tempo (the incomparably fast sonata in A Major, K. 113)...
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Piano Technique: nifty warm-up routines by Shirley Kirsten
to delight the player...
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Piano Technique: Obtaining Velocity, and doing the groundwork by Shirley Kirsten
Video instruction examines the baby steps required...
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Piano Technique: Playing Beyond the Fingers by Shirley Kirsten
with examples provided....
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Piano Technique: Playing Scales without bumps or accents by Shirley Kirsten
I provide lesson samples to illustrate....
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Piano Technique: Power forearm Staccato by Shirley Kirsten
in scales and arpeggios...
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Piano Technique: Practicing an E Major Arpeggio with a rolling contour by Shirley Kirsten
A lesson-in-progress with an adult student...
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Piano Technique: Practicing Arpeggios in 10ths and in contrary motion by Shirley Kirsten
blocking, rotation, and curve around tips...
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Piano Technique: Practicing parallel octaves in legato by Shirley Kirsten
a stepwise approach in video with score attached....
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Piano Technique: Practicing Trills by Shirley Kirsten
Tips on working them up to tempo...
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Piano Technique: Producing a beautiful singing tone using jello as an image by Shirley Kirsten
Mental imagery and muscle memory are explored...
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Piano Technique: Producing a beautiful singing tone using jello as an image by Shirley Kirsten
How mental imagery and hands on knowledge can advance a beautiful tone and phrasing at the piano....
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Piano Technique: Reeling off parallel thirds in staccato by Shirley Kirsten
Ilyana, 9, learns the basics about thirds and physical motion...
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Piano Technique: Remediating Peak Octave Scale Paralysis by Shirley Kirsten
with a staccato rendering focus (crisp, detached note playing)...
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Piano Technique: Respiration not Perspiration by Shirley Kirsten
How the BREATH is central to music-making...
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Piano Technique: Rotation in arpeggios, and scale building by Shirley Kirsten
My videos of piano instruction...
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Piano Technique: Scale organizers to allay anxiety by Shirley Kirsten
examining romps in TENTHS, Symmetries, cupped hands, applied rhythms and more...
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Piano Technique: Scoop it up, Loop around Arpeggios by Shirley Kirsten
Tips on how to play 4-note broken chords in consecutive positions or inversions....
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Piano Technique: Shaking out Bach Ornaments! by Shirley Kirsten
I discuss a relaxed approach to playing ornaments, under the influence of the late Claudio Arrau....
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Piano Technique: Spring Foward Wrist/Bounce motions by Shirley Kirsten
applied to the piano repertoire...
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Piano Technique: Staying Connected while playing staccato by Shirley Kirsten
I explore Wrist, Forearm, and Finger staccato in a B Major scale demonstration...
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Piano Technique: Tackling the Bb Major Arpeggio in chunks by Shirley Kirsten
A step by step approach toward fluency and mastery....
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Piano Technique: Teaching a 9 year old staccato/weight application (videos) by Shirley Kirsten
We used a basketball and ping pong ball juxtaposed......
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