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Rotation is one of the main principles of piano playing but what actually is it, and how can we practice it? Robert Fleitz investigates in this tutorial which includes many exercises you can try at home, with the help of Tonebase Artists Robert Durso, Penelope Roskell, Edna Golandsky, and Seymour Bernstein.

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00:00 The Witchcraft of Rotation
01:49 History of Rotation
02:50 Anatomy and Tension Release
03:46 Exercise 1 The Key Exercise
04:04 Exercise 2 The Elbow
04:37 Why Rotation is Important
05:34 Exercise 3 At the Piano
06:43 Rotation and Legato
07:28 The Musicality of Rotation


Tonebase Lessons:

Seymour Bernstein "Choreographing Scales"
Robert Durso "Principles of the Taubman Approach"
Robert Durso and Ben Laude "Taubman Masterclasses"
Edna Golandsky "The Taubman Approach to Musicality"
Penelope Roskell "The Pillars of Piano Technique"

Other Sources

Ivy Lu Wang "Applying the Rotation Principle to Avoid Injury in Piano Performance"



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