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Old 11-30-2009, 09:02 PM
Mark W Mark W is offline
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Default Re: Mark Walsen - Parallel Intervals for Piano

Hello Adrian,

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I could imagine it being in a collection of modern piano studies.
It did occur to me that these pieces might have some value as piano technique exercises. But I have almost no good training in piano technique to know whether these would be good exercises. (I studied the piano between ages of 8 and 18, but my teacher taught the love of music, not piano technique.) I do know this about these pieces: They are not finger exercises! Pretty much, you leave you fingers forked in a fix position, any hit them around on the keyboard at different places. These pieces are exercises in wrist and arm control. For that, they might actually be well designed. It takes a lot of wrist and arm control to play with frequently changing accents, loudness, and degree of legato.

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I hope you consider making these pieces into printed scores...
It is ironic that I would work on sound recordings for these pieces before the notated scores.

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-- Mark
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