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Suzuki Piano |
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"We
are born
with a natural
ability to learn."
"Ability breeds ability, talent develops
talent."
Shinichi Suzuki
from 'Nurtured
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So, you've got the notes, the fingering and the rhythm and
you don't make any mistakes. Does this mean you can play music?
There are three other elements of musicality that make "music"
music. Otherwise, you just create organized sound. These elements
are timing, dynamics, and articulation. Developing the intuition
to apply musicality in your music makes you a pianist rather
than a piano player. Each element has its own wide ranging
extremes to discover. Dynamics is so much more than loud or
soft. Articulation is so much more than staccato or legato.
Timing is so much more than straight time and tempo.
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The subtlety of sound is truly investigated as
the ear's ability to discern tone qualities is heightened. If
you're going to learn to play the piano, you might as well learn
how to produce the best tone from the piano. Anybody can push
a key down, but how many people produce a beautiful tone? |
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"A
musician cannot move others
unless he himself is moved."
- CPE Bach |
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Mastery over body mechanics is essential to developing flawless
technique. This takes time, patience, and lots of practice.
Most importantly, you need proper instruction. Instruction
in technique can never come from a book, and especially not
from exercises created for the sole purpose of repeating sequences
of notes. These exercises done with poor technique just further
solidifies faulty and labored muscle memory. Each finger has
its optimal position, as transient as it may be, and the hand
and the arm should be in balance to support the independent
action of each finger. Without independence, your fingers
won't be consistent in touch or rhythm in scale passages,
or be able to play Chopin, holding down notes with fingers
1 and 2 and trilling fingers 4 and 5 at the same time.
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Yes, I teach music reading. The Suzuki method
does not mean that you don't read music. I teach reading using
a variety of approaches, designed to make sight-reading a very
manageable task. What Suzuki develops above reading music, is
lightening fast memory, superior tone, and an intuitive ear.
These are valuable skills for a musician, ones that give you
freedom from the paper, and freedom to express. |
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Every song has steps to being performable. Concert
pianists do not sight-read on stage. It is memorized, in fact
"over-memorized." A song goes through these stages
- learning the notes and rhythm, correct fingering, solid technique,
musicality and tone, and finally "owning" the song
or mastery. Each stage of a song is documented on the student's
progress record. Students love to look back and see the proof
of their accomplishments. |
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Did you know there are pedal zones? Joseph Banowetz's
book The
Pianist's Guide To Pedaling is an excellent source on pedaling
technique. Pedaling is an area much too often ignored in piano
teaching. Your foot needs technique, too! You'll be amazed at
the difference you hear once you attend to training your pedal
foot. Can you imagine a chauffeur that doesn't break well? Well,
that's what you might sound like with an untrained foot. |
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I have an in-depth, four stage outline on music
learning that I give at my orientation. Please contact
me to schedule one. |
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More information about the history and methodology of the
Suzuki method can be found at these organizations sites as
well as many other state and local Suzuki organizations you
can search for.
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Bruno Walter said, "By
concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by
concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision."
Think about precision of tone and musicality. What precisely
did the composer have in mind as he put ink to paper?
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