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Playing involves carrying both arms as if they were nothing at all ."

Best training involves playing pianissimo and without pressure.

p.75 Shadow Playing

"... first loosen up ...
... then it is important to be aware of your bodily image and the space you EMBRACE when playing.

Yehudi Menuhin demonstrates an "open embrace"


Begin to play the imagined instrument, delicately -- gradually expanding the distance between your shoulder blades . Your BACK should be as alive and sensitive as your front.
Play with the whole body...arms in OPEN EMBRACE .


   Yehudi Menuhin

For any troublesome passage in a piece, write your own alternative passages:

(1) At first as distinct entities from the original piece.

(2) After having generated and played several of these passages, reshape someof them to serve as ossia passages, (and learn them).
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