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Fundamentals of Piano Practice, 2nd Edition - by Chuan C. Chang
A better guide to how to actually practice an instrument I have never seen!
Excerpts on this site :
'using more than two fingers on the Right Hand'
Fundamentals of Piano Practice, 2nd Edition - by Chuan C. Chang
is available as a free download on his site, and an essential text in my opinion.
A couple of points about using this book -
- It's 228 pages - spend the $30 (AUD) and get it printed. You will want to attack it with a highlighter pen and a 6B pencil
- Put your thinking cap on. There are no illustrations. You won't read or comprehend it in one sitting.
- Luckily, or rather, by design, the layout is logical and well indexed, so you can find your subjects of interest.
- You will have to transfer this piano oriented information to Guitar.
- Get my book
"Guitar Playing and how it works"
if you want help in how to apply these concepts to the guitar.
e.g. -
- what Chang calls "parallel sets" I call
'One impulse equals Four Notes'.
- Forearm rotation applied to tremelo
- video of the continuous rasgueado
- ballistic movement
- A better guide to how to actually practice I have never seen.
- Chang's style is clear and logical, unlike many books on how to play an instrument. His background as a pianist and physicist with over 100 published papers serves him well here. You can follow his logic and then accept or reject it.
- Send the author a donation via his website in appreciation for the valuable information he has provided us. - here - Fundamentals of Piano Practice, 2nd Edition - by Chuan C. Chang
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