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Jun 20, 2018
2 min

The role of emotions: The summarizing effect

The six different memories There are six different memories used by pianists to learn their pieces. The most used ones are five. These five are: The memory of the name of the notes The memory of how the music looks in the paper -photographic memory of the score. The memory of how our hands look when we play a specific piece The memory of how the music sounds The memory of how the music feels -muscular memory. The emotional perception of the piece The one that ties all the oth

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Juan José Rezzuto

Apr 25, 2018
3 min

Hand settlement and Left Hand

Hand placement can prove to be fundamental for the implementation of an efficient piano technique. I have seen my students, and sometimes even myself, trying to apply a specific piano movement to a particular passage without having adequately settled the hand into the keyboard. What does settlement imply? I personally consider a hand is appropriately “settled” when it is inserted on the piano in a way in which it can easily support the weight of the fingers without having to

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Juan José Rezzuto

Mar 1, 2018
3 min

Complete Piano Learning Cycle

Complete Piano Learning Cycle It is not unusual to see, in the realm of London piano practises, how piano teachers misjudge the way they should approach tutoring piano beginners. There are three possible different results a teacher can obtain from teaching a piano beginner: The student can become a concert pianist The student can become a piano teacher The student can become a music connoisseur (most frequent case) The good news: The three possible results are reached applyin

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Visualization and me: How could mental practice enhance focus and performance experience?

Juan José Rezzuto

Dec 14, 2017
4 min

Visualization and me: How could mental practice enhance focus and performance experience?

Genesis I remember when I first began my bachelor’s degree in performance and technology at the London College of music four years ago. It was an exciting, thrilling and intriguing time for me. I was marked by a sense of joy and fear simultaneously as I foresaw in my minds eye, the expectation of piano competitions, extravagant and difficult repertoire and the strain of academic rigor and thorough research into the contexts and historical backgrounds behind the music to be st

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Harmony review - Analysing Haydn Piano Sonatas

Juan José Rezzuto

Nov 22, 2017
2 min

Harmony review - Analysing Haydn Piano Sonatas

Harmony review - Analysing Haydn Piano Sonatas It is fundamental, for the sake of music analysis, to be very confident about our knowledge of harmony. This article reviews those harmonic functions and elements usually found in most classical sonatas. Harmonic Progressions Prolongational One of Haydn’s most commonly used progressions; prolongational harmonies serve to support the harmonic effect of a chord through the use of 4 different methods: Neighbouring chords We can easi

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Juan José Rezzuto

Nov 16, 2017
2 min

WKMT Piano Scholars

WKMT was established in 2010. In its beginnings, WKMT tried and employed many different piano teachers, some of them became part of its pedagogical core while some other passed through leaving behind beautiful musical remembrances.. Since 2017, WKMT differentiated itself from all other private organizations and become a part of a smaller elite group… WKMT is one of the few London practises which offers lessons with fully committed piano teachers. Our professionals are careful

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Juan José Rezzuto

Nov 11, 2017
2 min

Forearm movement - Piano Technique

Forearm Movement - Piano Technique Definition and structure The forearm movement is made of two very distinct stages -its positive and its negative movements-. The negative movement becomes its most important compound as it is paradoxically the one that requires the muscles to be enacted. Structure Negative movement The elbow should be left completely relaxed forming a 90 degree angle (approximately) between the shoulder and our hand. All the job of lifting the forearm itself

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Piano Performance: Music Inertia VS Phrase Control

Is it late for me to start learning piano?

Juan José Rezzuto

Sep 1, 2017
3 min

Is it late for me to start learning piano?

Classical music and most specifically piano can come to us at very different points of our life. My former maestro, Bruno Gelber, used to say that for the majority of people, classical music arrives during maturity. Does this mean that it is too late for mature students to develop practical piano skills? Not really. There's not a minimum age for piano lessons. As opposite to sports, performing the piano is an activity we can carry on doing until the very last stages of our

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Haydn Sonata in F Hob. XVIF3 - 1st movement / development

Juan José Rezzuto

Aug 12, 2017
2 min

Haydn Sonata in F Hob. XVIF3 - 1st movement / development

DEVELOPMENT This section opens with theme A transposed to the dominant tone as expected. It is then followed by an episode focusing on the tail of the first episode’s motive. It basically utilises the last descending section of the passage anticipated by two semi-quavers from episode-one’s ascending gesture. These gestures are used in contribution with the build-up of episode-one’s main motive recapitulation. Haydn will instate a longer sequence of repetitions on this motive,

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Juan José Rezzuto

Aug 1, 2017
2 min

Artificial Intelligence making music.

Music is changing and with it, the way it is being composed. FlowComposer is an Artificial Intelligence system that composes music almost independently. Its latest creation, “Daddy's Car”, has become very popular on the internet and has reached nearly 1.7 million views on Youtube. The fact that this song has been created by a machine it says a lot about the direction music industry is leading to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHZ_b05W7o The company behind of this new AI co

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Juan José Rezzuto

Jul 27, 2017
2 min

How Music improves your skills

Nowadays achievements are considered as one of the most significant MUST HAVES of contemporary life style. Even though some part of the society consider Musical Achievements as not too serious, there have been a number of studies done on the effect of music on academic development. It has been shown that high school music students have higher grade point averages than none- music students in the same school. At Mission Viejo High School in Southern California in 1981, the ove

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Juan José Rezzuto

Jul 26, 2017
2 min

Helping our pianist community

Pianistaid.com our way of helping our fellow musicians WKMT organises, promotes, produces, records and helps musicians and students since 2010. Since June 2017 WKMT has taken one step forward. In the past WKMT’s endeavours were mainly centred around helping its most immediate community. That helped it develop into a rather large network of musicians and music fans. With concerts organised every month at St. Cuthbert’s Philbeach Gardens, our own cycle of masterclasses and two

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Gisela Paterno “Phantasy for Piano and Violin, op 28: Music that lives inside and not outside.

Juan José Rezzuto

May 30, 2017
3 min

Gisela Paterno “Phantasy for Piano and Violin, op 28: Music that lives inside and not outside.

During my teaching experience at WKMT, I recently had the great honour to study and perform one of Gisela`s creations “Phantasy for Violin and Piano op. 28”. My partner in crime was Hitomi who enthusiastically took the challenge. Having the composer attending the rehearsals was a great advantage as we asked many questions about the interpretation of the piece and the story behind its composition. Gisela Paterno Gisela studied composition in Argentina where she graduated with

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Anthony's brief about March at WKMT - Piano lessons for kids

Juan José Rezzuto

Apr 20, 2017
2 min

Anthony's brief about March at WKMT - Piano lessons for kids

Over March, it has been a real eventful one with rehearsals, preparations for students’ exams and concerts. Along with the travelling (through busy London included) it goes to show how fast paced (and how much you need to think on your feet) being a musician can be. Over one particular week, it’s amazing how you can get through a schedule and not realize how much you move. From rehearsing some energetic violin music and racing with the accompanist getting faster each time, to

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Piano lessons for Beginners Level 2 - WKMT Syllabus

Juan José Rezzuto

Apr 20, 2017
1 min

Piano lessons for Beginners Level 2 - WKMT Syllabus

Piano Lessons for Beginners Level II BASIC GOALS Perfect and develop the skills acquired in the previous level Articulations: legato, portato, stacatto. Dynamics: forte, piano, planos sonoros. Passing of the thumb. Chord execution Major scale structure Chromatic scale The concept of “speed” MUSICAL GOALS Re-enforcement of the concepts developed in the previous stage Intervals Major skills Chromatic scale Accidentals Rests Added values (dots) Slurs Dynamics: forte, mezzoforte,

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Enhance your intellectual abilities by learning piano - Piano lessons for adults

Juan José Rezzuto

Apr 15, 2017
2 min

Enhance your intellectual abilities by learning piano - Piano lessons for adults

It is a proven fact that learning how to play a musical instrument can change the shape of your brain. Moreover, it optimizes the way in which we organize our ideas, we organize our activities and we perceive time. After many years of playing the piano I can confidently say that musicians perceive time in a completely different fashion to other people. The fact that we need to deliver information in quotas and precisely at certain times, makes us understand how imminent and y

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Juan José Rezzuto

Apr 14, 2017
2 min

THANK YOU.

March has been an intense, rewarding and exciting month at WKMT. On the 11th March, I took part in a successful Festival both as a teacher and performer. It was very rewarding to see my students performing on a Concert Grand Piano and being able to show their improvements to their proud parents and families. Performing is an important experience for building up confidence both for children and adults and students at WKMT got the best opportunity to express themselves in a po

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Improve your stress management through piano learning... - Piano Lessons for Beginners

Juan José Rezzuto

Apr 9, 2017
2 min

Improve your stress management through piano learning... - Piano Lessons for Beginners

Improve your Stress management Time management Decision-taking Multi-tasking General well-being Relaxation skills Focusing Stress Management Stress levels arise when we struggle to focus. When we struggle to focus we start feeling we will fail to complete the task. When we are afraid our thinking becomes less efficient. All this points towards failure. We can struggle to focus due to a number of reasons, but one of the main ones is that we have to overcome the fear of leaving

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PIANO AND ITS PEDALS - Interesting question when delivering #pianolessonsforkids #pianolessonsforbeg

Juan José Rezzuto

Apr 6, 2017
1 min

PIANO AND ITS PEDALS - Interesting question when delivering #pianolessonsforkids #pianolessonsforbeg

As a child: Hasn't you ever asked what are the piano pedals for? Students new to the piano often ask about the purpose of each of the piano's pedals. The sustain pedal on the far right preventing the damper bar from hitting the strings in order to sustain the notes we play is the one we are most familiar with, but the other two may be complete mysteries to beginners. After learning the use and importance of all the pedals in the article below, it is also important to consider

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