Just Being at the Piano

By Mildred Portney. Chase

Book Overview

Topics covered include body awareness and movement, warming up, tone, listening, slow practice, feedback, fingers: strength or alignment, innate rhythm, the left hand, the adult beginner and others. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915238454
• ISBN13: 9780915238453
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Peace Pr Pub
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

my daughter loved this book, she teaches piano and was very happy to get this for Christmas

GAve this bk to my daughter for Christmas and she loves it--she teaches piano and it is such a big help to her

Worth a burl

This is a nice little book that I bought after it was referred to in Kenny Werner's "Effortless Mastery". There are some good things in this publication. It is a very practical approach to something that is very hard to explain - that is, the mindset of the performer when playing. Highly recommend it - well done Mildred.

Amazing, breathtaking, poetic, inspiring!

This is my absolute favorite book about the piano and playing. The writing is exquisite, and the images very powerful. This book will free to play music like you never have played before, and there is even a chapter for the adult beginner! I am sad to see that the book is out-of-print and hope that it will be brought back. Almost the entire book is quotable and I turn back to this book for not only inspiration behind my interpretation of music, but also for practical tips on sight reading and improvisation. Wonderful!