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From healthy technique to natural artistry The Complete Pianist: from healthy technique to natural artistry offers a new and unique approach to piano playing, in which Penelope Roskell shares a lifetime's experience of teaching, performing and ground-breaking research into healthy piano playing. Containing more than 500 pages of text, 300 videos and 200 exercises newly...

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The book has something new to offer to all pianists and keyboard players - student and teacher, professional and amateur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenelope guides pianists through the early stages of learning a piece, through all the technical challenges and interpretative choices, towards inspired performance. Each new aspect of playing is addressed through a series of practical exercises which proceed, step-by-step, from the basics towards more advanced applications.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003ePenelope demonstrates all the musical and technical points herself in videos accessible by smartphone, tablet or computer\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Complete Pianist comprises 22 sections, including:\u003cbr\u003e• A whole-body approach\u003cbr\u003e• Finger touch and tone production\u003cbr\u003e• Playing at speed\u003cbr\u003e• Fundamentals of chord playing\u003cbr\u003e• Advanced chords\u003cbr\u003e• Rotation\u003cbr\u003e• Lateral movements\u003cbr\u003e• Tone and texture\u003cbr\u003e• Pedalling\u003cbr\u003e• Learning, memorizing and sight-reading\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NTHMw1i64ks\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePenelope Roskell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London and at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. 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