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Play the Piano - The Performance

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    Delightful, inspiring, and masterful are these lessons.

Alex Wasserman
www.ismw.org  
(301) 657-0763

Alexander Wasserman is a professional pianist and pedagogue whose performances include Suburban Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland, “Pianofest” , Peabody Institute, Los Angeles. He is on the faculty at the International School of Music (ISM) in Bethesda, where he teaches piano to all ages, levels, and styles. With a distinguished faculty of 55 teachers, ISM provides students with a rich music education experience. The ISM faculty’s friendly personalities, insightful approaches, and individually tailored teaching methods have helped students become complete and versatile musicians. ISM provides an atmosphere that is warm and supportive so every student can achieve his/her best.

Play the Piano - The Performance

In this video, professional pianist and pedagogue Alexander Wasserman from the International School of Music describes the techniques needed to get started playing piano. The video is designed for the beginning piano player, but includes a variety of tips and technics that would be useful to intermediate players. This video series includes an overview of the basics, how to sit properly at the piano, have correct hand position, how to get the sound on piano, how to get loud and soft sound, how to play certain music examples and much more.

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Alexander Wasserman: My name is Alex Wasserman and we are talking about piano basics. Now I would like to talk about performing. Performing piano music can be one of the most satisfying musical experiences. Piano music can be performed in a variety of different ways. It can be solo piano music with just a pianist playing by himself or herself on stage, we can have chamber music where a pianist will play with other instrumentalists usually, in a very small group, perhaps a Cello, a Violin and a Viola. The pianist can also play with a symphony orchestra as a soloist, that's a called a Concerto. In nay circumstance, playing the piano can be one of the most rewarding musical experiences and I would recommend that anyone that has the interest to try playing the piano, take some classes. Don't become discouraged if it doesn't sound exactly how you wanted it to right off the back. It takes time and practice, but with that time and practice, you will have cultivated a skill that is very special.

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