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Advanced Piano Technique in an Approachable Manner
3 students
Created byElizabeth Tufankjian
Last updated 7/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Develop great piano technique using whole body strength.
  • Improve technique at a faster pace.
  • Prevent injury.
  • Develop confidence in performance.

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Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 1h 38m total length

  • The Motive and Mission4:12

    The motive and mission for this project is to help pianists understand and improve their technique at a faster pace through the tool of imagery.  You will understand and practice becoming strong in your whole body to master technique. In this way you will be able to get the “music” inside your heart out.  In addition, you will be able to prevent injury and build confidence in performance. These disciplines should be connected forever.

  • Introduction to Training the Whole Body for Correct Instrumental Technique4:56

    Embedded in the course are excerpts from Training the Whole Body for Correct Instrumental Technique by Dr. John Maloney.

  • Assignment 1 - The Singing Pianist and the Floating Head29:43

    We have to establish a pattern of TRAINING ourselves for correct posture and breathing correctly.  This is how we turn on the power to release tension and tightness.

  • Assignment 2 - The Knuckle Stretch19:11

    To play large chords securely, without scratching notes, we need to prepare our hands by spreading our fingers apart in a unique way.  

  • Assignment 3 - Wax On Wax Off17:58

    In order to play the wide legato phrase with clarity and the legato touch you need to strengthen your shoulders in the correct way.  Then your arm can be loose so the flow comes from the shoulder.

  • Assignment 4 - Turning the Doorknob20:14

    Crafting the short distance legato phrase using wrist rotation.

  • Bonus2:03

Requirements

  • Student must know major and minor scales and chords on the piano.

Description

What on earth would a football player or any other athlete have in common with the classical pianist…you know that “Mostly Mozart” type of person that’s in the practice room for hours on end striving for a perfect tone and technique?

As a piano pedagogue for several years, I have noticed the mindset of the two worlds of discipline…either you play a sport like soccer or basketball …and you're considered “athletic” or you play an instrument such as piano and you’re considered “artistic”. There is not much thought given to building bodily strength to help get the music out. A person is either athletic or artistic and that’s it. I have been totally convinced otherwise.

As a result of working with Dr. Maloney, a licensed chiropractor, I totally believe these two worlds of discipline blend together and crossover into each other. Correct technique for the musician is known as correct form for the well-trained athlete.

The motive and mission for this project is to help pianists understand and improve their technique through the tool of imagery. The student also needs to practice becoming strong in their whole body to master technique. In this way they can be able to get the “music” inside their heart out, to prevent injury and to build confidence in performance. These disciplines should be connected forever.

Who this course is for:

  • Returning adult amateur pianists and pre-college piano students in training.
  • Students wishing to learn piano technique using whole body strength.

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