Twenty Lessons In Keyboard Choreography
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Composer: Seymour BernsteinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-06
ISBN: 0793503728
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: Seymour Bernstein Music
Book Reviews of Twenty Lessons In Keyboard Choreography
Book Review: One of the best technique books!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is invaluable for any pianist who wants to teach. Bernstein provides very clear directions, pictures, and exercise to illustrate each motion. So often teachers focus mainly on the abstracts of music such as the notes, the rhythms, the sound, the dynamics, the expression, without much discussion of how we produce the sound, and how different motions, and engagement of different muscles affects the sound produced. I highly recommend this book for piano teachers of all skill levels and educational backgrounds.
As a book for students, I would only recommend it for older students who enjoy reading, problem solving, and have decent attention spans--because of the lengthy blocks of text. He does use some rather silly looking and sounding exercises (such as playing with a pencil) to illustrate the basics of sound production.
The only real problem I had with the book is that his assessment of proper hand position. It seemed to me that either his idea of perfect hand position involved wrists raised above the natural line of arm and wrist, or he had unusually structured hands. He speaks at one point of playing with "straight fingers" and I myself cannot play that way without raising my wrists to an almost painful level. However, that is a small thing, and the wealth of information in this book, and the physical understanding of the act of playing piano makes this book worth every penny!
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