Mastery of Piano Technique for advanced pianists – Vol I

This program is for advanced level pianists who are pursuing Bachelor’s, Master’s or D.M.A. degrees in Piano Performance. Good sight-reading and singing skills are a ‘must’ requirement for this program.

I strongly advise against playing your former repertoire during this course so as not to confuse mental and physical memory while acquiring new skills. The ideal time for studying is during your gap year where you can calmly focus on the retraining program only, committing 4 hours/day to practicing.

You can start the retraining program while keeping your study at the musical school, college or conservatory. However, this will result in a much slower, more challenging and overwhelming learning.

Each topic of the program consists of 3 main steps that takes about a week to complete.

• read through a topic and watch a relevant video – 1 hour

• watch an open lesson video – 1 hour

• practice following a practice video – 2-4 hours

Following this practice plan you will be able to complete the retraining program within 6 months (1.5 month for each book).

‘Mastery of Piano Technique’ is a four book course with over 18 hours of illustrated videos and over 35 hours of open lessons.

This book is additional study material for Mastery of Piano Technique playlist which you can find for free on YouTube. This playlist will give you an excellent idea about this course.

Written by Russian pianist and innovative teacher Emma Leiuman.

She studied at

• The Central Music School (under Kira Shashkina, teacher of Mikhail Pletnev)

• The Moscow State Chopin College (under Lev Naumov, student of Heinrich Neuhaus)

• The Moscow State Conservatory (Master’s degree under Prof. Pavel Nersessian, Prof. at Moscow Conservatory & Boston University).

• A prize winner of international competitions, she is the creator of The PianoWell© system – an innovative system for advanced & professional pianists that improves piano technique

• Her 25 years of research is presented in this ‘Mastery of Piano Technique’ book I, II, III which is illustrated with over 15 hours of videos. It is a step by step guide for professional pianists to train mental practice, inner singing, efficient hand motion as well as confident performance on stage

In this Book I you will study the foundation elements of tone production – mental practice (sound imagination & internal singing) and physical approach (posture, arm weight, wrist & elbow motion).

By the end of 30 days practice you will be able to play a simple piece of music with relaxed hands, flexible wrists, arm weight, controlling your tone as well as your finger muscles.

Study this PDF with linked illustrational videos and additional materials (underlined in the titles of each lesson of this book).  Make sure you don’t miss Open Lessons video to learn more about how students study this course. When you click on the Desktop or Mobile icons you will also have access to Online interactive Book I with embedded videos. You will find this page at the beginning of the book. Weekly book updates are always reflected in this interactive version.

Who this course is for:

• Advanced pianists who are interested in learning in-depth about mental practice & efficient hand motions.