Juilliard graduate helping dedicated adult pianists who love challenging repertoire practice less while learning more.
πΉ π€² my hand SHRUNK but I didn't give up
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Instead of giving up when I was told I'd never play piano again after my hand literally shrunk (of course, many other physical complications too after four surgeries!), I changed my fingering! I'm relearning my soul piece, the Chopin E Minor Concerto. π Pre hand accident, it felt like a walk in the park. Now? Only with a lot of new fingering choices... and hand redistribution (a ton of it!) You can watch some demonstrations of that in my recent YouTube video. π WATCH HEREβ Even if your hand hasn't changed, it's worth questioning your fingering. π€² Does it fit? Right now, today? If you'd like to learn how to make faster fingering decisions that work for your hand, join us Thursday... βSAVE MY SPOTβ I'll walk through how I make fingering and hand redistribution choices, and how to build your fingering decisions instead of white knuckling through what stopped working years ago. You'll be at your piano, trying out new fingering on your own music. π€« Don't worry, you'll be on mute. Short replay for anyone registered, so grab your spot even if Thursday's tight. But you'll get so much more out of it if you can try things with your own hands as we go. |
Lisa Spector, Piano Ninja
Juilliard graduate helping dedicated adult pianists who love challenging repertoire practice less while learning more.
After I shared my Cliburn audition of the Bach B flat Partita, the comments on YouTube and Instagram kept mentioning my trills. People noticed how easy they sounded. Here's the thing. I haven't practiced a trill inside a piece since graduate school. π€·βοΈ Over 40 years ago, I learned a five-minute warm-up from John Perry, R.I.P. I've done it almost every practice session since. When a trill shows up in whatever I'm playing, it just works. I don't stop to negotiate with my wrist. I don't wonder...
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Someone caught it. 23 seconds in, on the Gigue from the B-flat Partita, the one from my 1989 Cliburn audition. A mistake, small, just a switch in the notes. He commented so everyone would hear it. Barely noticeable, but he felt good catching it. π₯Ί I replied without thinking twice. "My motto now is Screw Perfect. Just Make Music." 131 likes on that reply. More than the comment that started it. That reel also got me 466 new followers on Instagram which lead to celebrating 10K followers...