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Let's try to make the thing easier! Test your piano-technical habits: maybe that would be the very important
step toward the real success?
Motto: However I always have got so great joy just playing the piano, THEY
still always have paid so much for it...!
V. Horowitz
Prof. Lev N. Naumov
(1925 – 2005), was probably the most eminent piano teacher worldwide in the
late 1900 and in beginning of the 21 Century; he was a man who kept alive the
great Neuhaus' tradition in its best.
We must respect facts:
"Playing the piano" should mean -
something beautiful, interesting, passionate... - it should bring the pianist
much joy, including the very true physical pleasure coming from his/her
benevolent contact with the keyboard...
Unfortunately, many adepts of the piano get truly
not enjoyment nor PLEASURE in their contact with the piano keyboard. Mainly,
it happens because they just have no idea related to professionally advanced
hearing control of theirs own playing. Unfortunately, such practice seems to
be much more common then one could believe!
In my opinion, the first serious step in the right
direction would be such one - to figure out ones personal level in art of
playing the piano! Hereby I would like to propose the suitable way that could
give quite sure diagnose in the matter.
Are you
interested in? So, here you are the 16
questions in 4 divisions:
 A.
 1. Do you truly use the artistic IDEA of a music you are going to study - as the PRIMARY source of advise that
helps to determine a character of the each one played sound?
yes / not...?
2. Does the internal energy really drive in the sounds you take
up from the instrument? Do you can sincerely say that "your sound"
breathes?
yes / not...?
3. Do you try to carry on the artistically indispensable quality of a sound even practice
the "difficult passages?
yes / not...?
4. Do you can say that the hearing control decides the things in your piano
technical forming?
yes / not...?
B.
1. Do melodies have enough emotional intensity in your playing?
yes / not...?
2. Is there enough rhythmical energy in your playing?
yes / not...?
3. Are you sure that here is enough
dynamic differences between leading and other parts in your playing?
yes / not...?
4. Are you artistically enough brave in your experiments
with ideas, sounds, colors, and emotions in your playing?
yes / not...?
5. Are you enough carefully with
question of the STYLE? Do you truly see the essential difference between emotional and intellectual
nature of the Beethoven's op. 53 and op. 57, or between the op. 35 and op. 58
of Chopin, or between Pour le Piano and Gaspard de la Nuit -
for example?
yes / not...?
C.
1. Are you sure - you can frankly
say that in your playing the fingers just "convey" the hand's
weight in such a way, that this "load" fluently moves through the
keyboard's extent, being the hidden source of the fingers' power?
yes / not...?
2. Are you sure - you do not must hold yours hands in the air, really?
yes / not...?
3. Are you sure - you know how to practically use the
real weight of the fingers when playing the piano?
yes / not...?
4. Are you sure - you really do not
try to enforce the fingers using the power of the higher (shoulder, forearm) parts of
your hands as the main source of energy?
yes / not...?
D.
1. Do you can honestly say that
your playing is fully ENJOYABLE to you, seeing the problem from the physical, i.e. piano-technical
point of view, too?
yes / not...?
2. Do you can say - you are sure
that you can improve your piano-technique just trying to change yours thinking and hearing
standards?
yes / not...?
3. Do you, usually, handle your
piano playing in such a way that could be define as the similar one to the Chopin
& Neuhaus' system?
yes / not...?
There were here, all in all, only the 16 questions. If you have given the affirmative answers at least to the
50%
of them - it is, maybe, enough to survive. If more - you seemingly are going
directly toward yours Personal Artistic Success! My Sincere Congratulations!
Still if not, I am nearly sure, you just should give
me a call...
In any case - Thank you Very Much for your visit at this page!
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Actualized: 2006-03-13
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