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		<title>Elementary principles to study piano</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps this might occasionally be successful with a natural-born genius, but it would be an exceptionally gifted being who would govery far without any method or school, as we call it, to start with. You can also find this kind of genius on some videos of the youtube music section dedicated to pianists. For the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fingers &#124; elbows positions upon piano keyboards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing, then, that presents itself is the position of the body when seated at the instrument. With regard to this, the pupil should be seated with his chair exactly at the middle of the keyboard, and at a medium distance, that is to say, neither too near nor too far, but so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to lift the fingers on keys : technique</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To recapitulate the whole matter and condense it, the principle set up is that all control on the keyboard should be established by the fingers, the hand and the forearm, the wrist remaining entirely supple. This, in my opinion, applies to all finger technique, and is essential for arriving at a completely successful issue. Care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finger exercises for piano scales</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must pass on from five finger exercises to the technique of extended positions of the hand, such as are to be found in scales, arpeggi, chords, thirds and octaves. I propose here to speak of scales and arpeggi only, and shall first say a word or two about scales, for which the five-finger exercises [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fingers in piano scales : thumb passage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piano scales finger. In order to obtain this smooth passage of the thumb in scales, I advise that the wrist always be kept absolutely loose, and that in slow practice, when the thumb is ready to pass, the wrist be raised temporarily from its usually low position to a higher one; also the finger which [...]]]></description>
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