Course | Piano | The Pianist's Guide to Touch
"The best ability on Piano is to play 'softly', and have triple piano as well as triple forte"
Instructor
Maria Thompson Corley
Duration
1 hour and 18 minutes
4 Chapters
Course description
Achieve excellent results and in-depth, natural, and more expressive sound in piano playing.
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Foundation of Tone control
The Physics of Dynamics
Legato
Legato (part two)
“How many Juilliard-trained pianists does it take to change a light bulb?”
“Ten. One to start, then nine more to do it louder and faster.”
"Even when pianists try to use both ends of the dynamic spectrum, our efforts can be stymied by inferior instruments. Nevertheless, even the most wonderful piano possibilities will remain unexplored if we don’t know how to create a triple piano sound in the first place. Playing quietly is more difficult than playing loudly; when my teacher, Gyorgy Sandor (with whom I studied at Juilliard, by the way), first introduced me to the idea of softer softs, I spent hours trying to achieve new levels of control. It’s still working, but so very rewarding."
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Instructor Maria Thompson Corley