A Dozen A Day: Pre-Practice Technical Exercises For The Piano [Book 1 Primary]

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However you choose to introduce and use exercises from A Dozen A Day, remember that like any cycle of technical exercises, using them inappropriately won’t just potentially mitigate against any benefits, but could cause fresh problems for players. I have been using these little books with my students since I first started teaching in the 1990’s, and although they have featured less prominently in my studio in recent years, they continue to make their appearance, and offer a hugely useful resource which can be used from the very first lessons, and right up to advanced level.

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The Dozen a Day books are universally recognized as one of the most remarkable technique series on the market for all ages! The obvious idea here is that at the start of practice, the current Group of 12 exercises provide a suitably varied and helpful warmup routine. It tests and improves different aspects of your piano practice and should be done daily to achieve the best results. Paul Harris’s superb Piece A Week series ( reviewed here) is of course an ideal resource for this, but before it appeared, A Dozen A Day was my go-to, and proved very effective.The Thematic Index must have taken a while to produce, and gratitude is due to Christopher Hussey, who produced it. This book helped me with a series of very small and manageable exercises to improve my finger dexterity and flexibility. compound), writing in different octaves, key signatures and clefs can all be explored as they relevantly relate to the learner’s ongoing music tuition.

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It is tempting to assume that a piano study book from the 1950’s won’t have aged well, that the material will be terribly dated.

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