How Fingering and Various Touches Affect on Sound-Making” Session 7 1/5

1) You need technical skills to be able to express whatever you want with the piece. Don't let a lack of technical skills make you substitute another way of expressing the music: You need a strong foundation of technical skills to be able to express whatever you desire 2) Listen to a lot of music so that you learn how you want to shape a music and the tone quality you want to produce Try to sing out each phrases to ensure it all makes sense with the way you want to shape a phrase 3) Be able to recognize and pinpoint the beginning, loudest point and ending point of every single phrases in music 4) Do a small cresc and diminuendo to shape a phrase unless it is specified with dynamic signs such as sforzando, accent, etc 5)Ensure to end phrases with the wrist-float off technique 6) keep working on sound-making by using wrist rotation (How much you need to turn wrist) how quickly relax after stressing, how much arm weight should be needed or forearm movement you will apply 7) Legato touch, Natural shaping; keep working on how to decrease and increase arm weight gradually by doing the exercise that I introduced in the video. Learn the technique to control dynamic skillfully in order to create various musical colors and to avoid unwanted accents or bumps in your playing . Achieve goals of producing colorful tone quality and smooth legato playing 8) Rubato: Tasteful and Natural Rubato not heavy or fake (unnatural) 9) Articulations and Various touches 10) Legato Fingering helps playing in Legato touch: Finger Substitutions 11) Do a mental practice to develop your musical ideas Like, Comment, Share 🍀 & Subscribe 💚