Category Archives: Techniques

The isolation technique focuses on one element at a time in order for body and mind to more easily process the mechanics of playing. Use any time you’re learning a new piece of music.  

Using a work in progress, this exercise shifts your emphasis (and your typical perception) on to the volume hand to reveal pitches rather than on your pitch hand to find them.  

Let’s take a break from Xtremes and explore playing without tension, pressure or constraints.  

The first in a series of exercises designed to enable you to jump wide pitch intervals.  

Part 1 laid the groundwork. Now, in Part 2 integrate the complete technique in order to play rapid note runs and complex rapid rhythms.  

At this point, working at the threshold is the defining factor in getting precise articulation.   Part 1 will prime you for the process of learning to articulate clean, rapid runs of notes when precision playing. The aim is to train the volume hand for more precise and complex rhythmic movements. It all begins here. [...]