The Willis Music Company A Dozen A Day Initiation Piano - Burnam

Summary of This Method

This method offers a program of 12 technical piano exercises to integrate into a daily routine, like a warm-up. The idea is simple: just as you prepare your body before an activity, here you prepare your hands and fingers before tackling pieces, studies, or improvisation. The goal is to build a more reliable technique, with agile fingers and a firmer hand, without skipping steps.
The recommended approach favors regularity over quantity. It is advised not to try to learn all the exercises during the first week: start with two or three exercises only, played daily, focusing on precision and stability. Once these exercises are well integrated, you progressively add the next ones until you can perform all twelve exercises smoothly and controlled.
The content is organized into groups, which facilitates building a routine: Group I serves as the initial working base, then Group II is approached with the same principle once the first group is mastered. At the end of the course, the method encourages a very formative deepening: transposing each group into different keys. This step, highly recommended, helps strengthen keyboard understanding, finger equality, and ease in all keys, for a technique useful in all styles.

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piano

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method / technical exercises