Continous Piano

[nancylebov]

Just caught this on the BBC-- Lubomyr Melnyk developed a way of playing piano at incredible speed with expressiveness, and relates it t'ai chi-- "to play at this speed, your body has to turn to water" (approximate quote).

Here's an a little about his approach, which includes on a soft touch and lack of fear of mistakes. Unfortunately, his book Open Time, is not only out of print, it's not available for sale anyplace I looked.

His work has a lot of overlap with Kenny Werner's Effortless Mastery, if you'd like something in that range for jazz rather than classical.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

The technique is good — much better than mine — but by no means "incredible" among professional pianists.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Anyone else you'd recommend for comparison?

[madfilkentist]

I have no strong favorites, but any of the pianists who have achieved national prominence can do as well.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

As we discussed on the phone, i agree with madfilkentist.