- piano memorization
- music memorization
- memorizing piano music
- relative pitch
- chords
Product Description
Use mental practice to memorize piano music and create your own interpretation. Because every artistic creation starts first in the imaginary. You will have the tremendous advantage, like the famous virtuosos to be able to rehearse your music everywhere, with no need for a piano. You will perform by memory with the greatest confidence; and really have the music in your head! Get relative pitch in the fastest and fun way. The analytical part shows how to build any ch… More >>
#1 by Harty Publications on May 6, 2010 - 9:35 am
This book opens up an interesting view point but does it outway the cost? – I fear not.
Do not buy more than one book at a time as the VAT and Postal handling charges upon arrival in the UK far outway the effort and value… an extra £15
I should have ordered only one instead of 2 (one for a friend)and then re-ordered to keep below the £18 threshold then this charge would have been avoided.
The book itself is not a bargain and the picture conjures up many pages .. but it is more like a glorious magazine.
It is written by a ex Pilot not a master of music but as I said it is an interesting viewpoint. Best of luck
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Jon Paul on May 6, 2010 - 10:56 am
Found this to be full of a wealth of good information and ideas. Well laid out and easy to read.
I haven’t yet implimented the whole process, but it looks and sounds good. Have just been taking some ideas and implimenting them. So would probably be getting better results if I followed the process. It does remind me alot of Gordon Stewart’s DVD on Memorisation, but with additional detail on how to impliment the ideas into learning a piece using a step by step process. Whereas the DVD just covers the basic idea and it’s up to the viewer to interpret.
Thought it could have done with including information in the Relative pitch section on Solfeggio (moveable Do). Didn’t understand why it was left out when it’s just as easy to learn Solfa as opposed to the relative pitch process suggested. Also takes a similar amount of time in regards to internalising, but for me the results are a musical understanding and flexibility that just aren’t available with other approaches to relative pitch. It also improves your sight reading ability and intonation, so lost a star for that. But hey, that’s just me and the process suggested will work for those who do it.
In regards to international shipping, choosing standard shipping will probably help to avoid customs charges.
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Richard Cottrell on May 6, 2010 - 11:06 am
This is a WONDERFUL learning tool and a great resource. This book delivers all it says it will do and even more! This mental practice is really magical. A great book worth every cent!
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Noel Lackey on May 6, 2010 - 1:54 pm
As a piano beginner, I found this book to be invaluable, the techniques are simple and great fun to apply, it is amazing that once you apply the techniques and then sit and play the piece you have been rehearsing to find that your fingers now know what keys to hit and when to hit them at the correct time. Not only can you now play the piece but you also find that it brings out the feeling that the author was trying to convey, pieces I have been playing for some time have taken on new life, and passages that were just bland now sound so lively as the emotion of that section comes through. The biggest problem I have had is that when I practise the techniques and then play the piece on the piano I am so amazed as to how my fingers now know what to do that I often have to stop playing because I am laughing so much. Highly recommended, very easy to read book.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Christian Kropp on May 6, 2010 - 2:15 pm
This book made me love playing the piano. All my fears of playing by memory in front of an audience went away. Also, being able to practice my music anywhere at any time during the day and conceive my interpretations in my head gives me a pleasure that I never experienced before!
Rating: 4 / 5