Note...

• The following ideas have been cultivated over years of music study. I credit many of my teachers with instilling these ideas as well as my own experience in teaching, listening, reading and performing.

Play with...

• accuracy and beautiful tone
• correct fingering
• correct rhythm
• correct articulation
• correct dynamics
• correct pedaling
• correct tempo
• correct technique
• correct memory
• balance between voices
• musicality (communicating the character and spirit of the music)

Focus on...

• centering fingers on the keys
• sounding notes in chords simultaneously
• rhythms
• repetition (3 x 3 practice)
• eyes closed
• playing some parts while leaving out others
• playing sections with something in common side by side
• playing fast music slowly
• playing slow music faster
• playing strictly in tempo
• letting the music breathe where it wants
• experimenting with tempo
• playing staccato passages legato
• playing legato passages staccato
• breathing
• inviting inspiration into every moment of your practicing and performing