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What is your opinion about the Taubman technique ? rotation and all. Claims to be very RSI resistant and healthy ?

prirun 5y ago
Learning rotation is important and there are lots of Taubman videos on YT that explain it in detail, usually with scales. In a nutshell, there is the concept of single rotation and double rotation. When finger-to-finger movement is in one direction, like 1,2,3, you use double rotations. When going from 3 to 1, a single rotation. The movements are highly exaggerated for learning and demonstration. I think it's easy to get hung up on "how can I play piano if I'm rotating my hand all over the place?" In my opinion, a large part of learning rotation and how to use it for slow practice on difficult passages is about freeing your arm and hand so they are not unintentionally opposing movement. Playing with tension or unintentional opposition, especially if you play hours a day, is one way to get RSI (tendonitis). Here are some excellent YT resources for piano I have bookmarked. Several of these have videos that talk about forearm rotation: https://www.youtube.com/user/cedarvillemusic https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vYz1SAtcbRhsatydObGQw https://www.youtube.com/user/PianistMagazine (Graham Fitch) https://www.youtube.com/user/SteveMass1101 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr0BMA5yu3AS0alkR7kYwEQ https://www.youtube.com/user/aw4piano https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLsMRd097KLJMvkNzC4rYAA https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielBarenboim/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tpkZhNpJiTnlUgoiUe9QQ
- sandGorgon 5y ago
  Thank you so much ! This is brilliant.
MrGando 5y ago
I think it's very interesting and there's a lot to be gained by working on it (which I'm actually starting to do). The hardest scale in piano is C major probably, or at least one of the hardest ones... just started with Taubman, but C major (and D major) are sounding way better, even with what I would say is not a huge time investment.
- sandGorgon 5y ago
  any resources or tutorials that were very helpful for you ? would love to get in on that.
  - MrGando 5y ago
    There's very good teachers doing zoom lessons these days. And I think Taubman technique is the sort of thing that you'll need a teacher so that the concepts can be applied to how you're playing. Start here https://www.golandskyinstitute.org/faculty-of-the-golandsky-institute/ https://www.golandskyinstitute.org/faculty-of-the-golandsky-... Good luck :)

Learning rotation is important and there are lots of Taubman videos on YT that explain it in detail, usually with scales. In a nutshell, there is the concept of single rotation and double rotation. When finger-to-finger movement is in one direction, like 1,2,3, you use double rotations. When going from 3 to 1, a single rotation. The movements are highly exaggerated for learning and demonstration. I think it's easy to get hung up on "how can I play piano if I'm rotating my hand all over the place?" In my opinion, a large part of learning rotation and how to use it for slow practice on difficult passages is about freeing your arm and hand so they are not unintentionally opposing movement. Playing with tension or unintentional opposition, especially if you play hours a day, is one way to get RSI (tendonitis). Here are some excellent YT resources for piano I have bookmarked. Several of these have videos that talk about forearm rotation: https://www.youtube.com/user/cedarvillemusic https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vYz1SAtcbRhsatydObGQw https://www.youtube.com/user/PianistMagazine (Graham Fitch) https://www.youtube.com/user/SteveMass1101 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr0BMA5yu3AS0alkR7kYwEQ https://www.youtube.com/user/aw4piano https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLsMRd097KLJMvkNzC4rYAA https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielBarenboim/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tpkZhNpJiTnlUgoiUe9QQ

sandGorgon 5y ago
Thank you so much ! This is brilliant.

MrGando 5y ago

I think it's very interesting and there's a lot to be gained by working on it (which I'm actually starting to do). The hardest scale in piano is C major probably, or at least one of the hardest ones... just started with Taubman, but C major (and D major) are sounding way better, even with what I would say is not a huge time investment.

sandGorgon 5y ago
any resources or tutorials that were very helpful for you ? would love to get in on that.
- MrGando 5y ago
  There's very good teachers doing zoom lessons these days. And I think Taubman technique is the sort of thing that you'll need a teacher so that the concepts can be applied to how you're playing. Start here https://www.golandskyinstitute.org/faculty-of-the-golandsky-institute/ https://www.golandskyinstitute.org/faculty-of-the-golandsky-... Good luck :)