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The Art of Piano Technique is the unique, complete and thought-out training solution based on the “PianoWell” system. What’s included:
• Three classroom-type detailed textbooks — The Basic Course, The Advanced Course and The Final Course. Each textbook includes a DVD with video illustrations of properly accomplished assignments from the textbook performed by the author.
• One 180-page, 19 pieces analysis workbook with completely analyzed and ready to learn pieces for each course.
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The Art of Piano Technique: The Basic Course
Textbook with video-illustrations on DVD
ISBN-13: 978-0983964605
The aim of the course is to master the correct sound production which is based on the coordination of the developed internal ear and correct arm movements.
After working on this course you’ll master the basic musical means of expression (MEMs) that are necessary for the correct sound production (hand position and sitting position). The MEMs given in the course are — sound timbre, sound movement, intonation and weight.
You’ll develop your internal ear and will be able to create sounds of various qualities and movements of sounds in your head. And you’ll be able to precisely reproduce these sounds on the instrument knowing how your fingertips, fingers and wrists are responsible for these ideas. You’ll develop a sensation that you can draw a picture using sounds like paints. By imagining sound movement and correct wrist motions, you’ll feel how your wrist becomes flexible, lively and singing.
You’ll discover the possibility of internal singing while playing, i.e. you will learn to “sing on the instrument” by developing the correct intonation. When correctly intonating sounds, your vocal cords and throat muscles work exactly the same way as in regular singing. And the timbre of your voice becomes the beautiful sounds that you play. Also, you’ll begin to breathe correctly while playing with correct intonation. After such playing, your consciousness clears up and you experience a feeling of freshness and ease.
You’ll be able to pass weight to the instrument through correct intonation of sounds, filling your body, arms and sounds with breath, air and freedom.
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The Art of Piano Technique: The Advanced Course
Textbook with video-illustrations on DVD
ISBN-13: 978-0983964612
The Course is intended for students who passed The Basic Course.
After passing this course you’ll consolidate skills that you acquired in The Basic Course and master new interesting MEMs — dynamics, balance, sound texture, musical speech, articulations and meter.
You’ll learn to feel all nuances of loudness with your internal ear. You’ll be able to imagine the quietest sounds (like transparent and distant shades or tender clouds) and the loudest sounds, and play all dynamic nuances from pp to ff qualitatively thanks to the correct sound production.
You’ll master musical speech thanks to which you’ll develop a feeling that you can expressively “speak with sounds of your instrument”. That’s because musical speech expresses all gradations of emotions through intonation of different intervals.
You’ll develop the internal feeling of meter (the pulse of a piece). You’ll be able to organize the sound space of a piece that you play — select a suitable tempo, feel the internal pulsation while playing and easily enter the original tempo after a slight rubato.
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The Art of Piano Technique: The Final Course
Textbook with video-illustrations on DVD
ISBN-13: 978-0983964629
The Course is intended for students who passed The Basic Course and The Advanced Course.
After passing this course you’ll consolidate skills that you acquired in the previous courses and master the final MEMs — harmony, phrasing, form, emotional image and artistry.
You’ll discover the beautiful world of harmonies (chords and consonances). You’ll learn to submerge into harmonic texture of chords and delicately feel emotional coloring of each chord. You will learn to imagine sounds in harmony tint and be able to accurately express this tint through sound and intonation.
By mastering the exact knowledge of phrasing (motifs, phrases and sentences), you’ll learn to correctly distribute weight while playing and this will allow you to achieve easy and virtuosic playing.
You’ll develop the sense of form and wholeness. A piece you play will be organized into a certain story where there’s beginning, development, rising to climax, climax and conclusion. Thanks to these nuances of form, which are expressed through intonation, you’ll be able to as though cover a piece with your breath.
You’ll learn to express emotional image in a played piece through internal singing — it’ll give you a great feeling that you yourself become that image — as if it begins to live in your intonation and playing.
You’ll master artistry — you’ll never again have problems with a brave and confident performance in front of your audience. Thanks to the sensation of artistry, which is also expressed through intonation and musical speech, you’ll be able to maintain this feeling while playing.
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The Art of Piano Technique: The Workbook
ISBN-13: 978-0983964636
The Workbook consists of 19 pieces to consolidate the skills of correct piece imagining, correct sound production, thought-out analysis and efficient learning of a piece. The Workbook consists of three parts (6 pieces+6 pieces+7 pieces) and each one is used to work out the skills acquired in Basic, Advanced and Final Courses. Each part of the Workbook should be passed after each course.
Apart from the general Plan of Analysis and Learning each piece is analyzed in its score making it easy to pass the Workbook. In the scores, you’ll find marked fingering, timbre with movement, transitional notes for position change, melodic patterns to intonate musical speech, pedal, all nuances of phrasing (limits of motifs, phrases and sentences, and their culminating intervals, motifs and phrases), the content of form, and the unit of pulse.
The system of studying here is the same as in the courses. You may have consultations with the teacher through e-mail if necessary, you may send videos or have Skype Lessons for showing your results.
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Buy the whole "PIanoWell" program
Includes: "The Art of Piano Technique" all three textbooks with DVDs + CD-ROM PDF Workbook
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Price when purchased all together: $75 Download / $75 Printed Books with free cont. U.S. shipping
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If you would like to try our course, please, order "The Art of Piano Technique - The Basic Course", and if not completely satisfied, you may return the goods to us within 90 days of purchase and get your money back. Buyer pays shipping on returns. The returned merchandise must be in mint/near mint condition for full refund. No money back on downloads.
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