Some guidelines for intellectual preparation during physical contact between the instrument and the pianist

  • Angele Mihajlovski

Abstract

Very often technical problems caused by physical unwillingness of the fingers represent a seriousobstacle in the way of many pianists, especially those who devoted their professional education and career tothis instrument. "Handcraft" is intellectual preparedness and wide repertoire of compositions, a "tool" is thehand or fingers, which are the only physical contact between the instrument and the pianist. The need for thistype of technical exercises is apparent during secondary, and especially in higher education (undergraduateand master's degrees), when the whole creative energy maximum can be directed to exercise the instrument.Carefully applying the substantive elements covered in this paper, a piano student should be mentally awareduring exercise how to minimize the bad and irregular exercise habits, to learn how to memorize the text note,plotters and the safest way to gain independence in the detection and resolution of technical problemsencountered during the preparation of the composition.

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Published
2016-06-08