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		<title>piano lesson : five finger exercises</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 16:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An important piano lesson about five finger exercises. I strongly advise the student, as he advances, to play through some of the Exercises every day, increasing the Tempo gradually but never playing them too rapidly, and paying careful attention to the articulation of the fingers. It is also advisable to play the scales and Arpeggio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>piano scales and arpeggios : exercises I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These piano scales and arpeggios should be practiced every day with the accompanying arpeggio exercises in four different keys. Thus every scale and arpeggio in all the tonalities will be gone through twice during the week; practice also this pentatonic scale chart on piano. Piano scales in C and Arpeggio : right hand Piano scales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Style : interpretation of music</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Considerations about the interpretation of music and the music style. And what is musical style? I think it can be explained as the impression reflected upon the music by the manners, customs, and modes of thought which were characteristic of the epoch when it was written. For, after all, people lived, loved and suffered every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules of piano music interpretation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Piano technique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tips and piano interpretation rules for students. As far as the general rules of interpretation are concerned, I will give a few which appertain to what might be called the syntax of music. Such are the following. An ascending passage should be played with a crescendo, a descending passage with a diminuendo. The pedal must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online piano lesson : how to play and practice octaves : technique for pianist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How to practise piano]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another online piano lesson on how to play the octaves ; learn new techniques and tips for playing piano better. I now come to Octave Technique for which every sort of studies have been and continue to be written. Now the real octave wrist, combining great strength with high nervous tension and suppleness, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piano interpretation tips : online lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips for Pianists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Online piano lesson about interpretation and some helpful tips on hot play piano. It is told of Beethoven, who composed the well known piano piece titled Fur Elise, that he played over one of his own compositions to a talented pupil in order to give him some idea of the interpretative side, and then asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B flat scales and arpeggios for piano</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Piano technique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The fingering given in the C major example is similar in the keys of D, E, F, G, A, and B. For the E flat and B flat scales the fingering is the same as that given below. Piano scales in B flat and Arpeggio Right hand. Scales in B flat and Arpeggi. Left hand.]]></description>
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		<title>Beginning to learn to play piano</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Preparing for the pianist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To arrive at any real result in the study of the piano, it is essential to start very young, and to train both the ear and the hand from childhood. In the case of the beginner, the purely mechanical side of how to hold the hand and produce a supple articulation, is, of course, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to use piano pedals : sustain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tips about how to use the pedal on a piano The piano pedal can also be used in passages to give a more sustaining quality to the tone, though here care must be taken not to impair distinctness, but a great deal more pedal can be applied without causing any blur if an accent is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melody analysis : Moonlight Sonata</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beethoven Moonligh Sonata]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Analysis of the melody of Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig Van Beethoven The melody is introduced in the fifth bar, and must give the idea of floating on the accompaniment. At the tenth bar there comes a change of harmony from the major into the minor key, and here the note G (the first G) in [...]]]></description>
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