Piano Practice: The importance of variety - spice it up!
Channel: Tommy's Piano Corner
Date: 2019-02-04

This video continues my look at Melanie Spanswick's Play It Again Piano course - aimed at those of us who are getting back into the piano.  Specifically, at the amazing variety of material that is proposed touching on very different piano techniques.  Working methodically through this course is definitely helping me re-build a more balanced technique than I was achieving just choosing my own music from YouTube.

It was whilst learning pieces 4 and 5 which are in the 'late intermediate section' in parallel that this struck me ... it would be hard to pick two more different pieces,  Piece 4 is a lively little study by Berens (who died in 1880) and piece 5 a more romantic sounding piece by Eleanor Cobb (written in 2015).   

I end the video with my version of Eleanor Cobb's Lavender Haze - I hope you'll enjoy listening as much a I've enjoyed learning.  A completely new discovery for me.

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Check out the article on Anticipation
https://www.lib.umd.edu/binaries/content/assets/public/ipam/resources-reviews-and-links/arnest-hands-together-article-pdf-5-15-12.pdf

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Filmed on an iPhone 8+ - using the Filmic Pro app
Audio captured on an iPhone 6S using a Shure MV88 Microphone
Vocals captured on a Rode SmartLav microphone plugged into an iPhone 4S
Video editing done using iMovie
Audio editing done using Garageband

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