This work was designed to help teachers, students and piano enthusiasts, easily find pieces that let them to practice a particular technical element.
20 chapters have been compiled, each proposing a technical specificity:
1. Shifting
2. Alternating hands
3. Chords
4. Independence
5. Agility
6. Left hand agility
7. Polyphony
8. Rhythm
9. Staccato
10. Bouncing
11. Trills
12. Ornaments
13. Sound-Touch
14. Bebung repetitions
15. Repeated notes
16. Arpeggios
17. Articulation
18. Double notes
19. Octaves
20. Mixing techniques
Each chapter proposes pieces by level. This album rapidly targets each person's needs, with learning method developed around repertoire. The presentation, though non-exhaustive, of this technique related repertoire resolves a true conundrum familiar to all teachers.
Marie-Christine Guichot has been a piano teacher for many years. She directs the piano department at the regional conservatory in Perpignan. She has worked in conjunction with Denis Pascal for the piano master class at that conservatory.
