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Originally posted by Nick G:
There is a book called "the virtuoso pianist"

i highly reccomend this book, it is aimed at improving stamina of the wrist, all fingers on both hands, trains finger independance and basically works both hands equally to be able to accomplish any task on a piano.

All that is reccomended is at least 30 mins to 1 hour of this book per week, and that will keep your hands/fingers equally strengthened. after playing for even 15-20 mins, and you go back to one of your songs, u feel like u can do anything.

good luck
Nick


Nick is right on the Hanon Virtuoso Pianist by G. Schirmer http://www.schirmer.com/ is great for tuning up that left hand, right hand too. I've used the book from time to time. There's a great preface by the composer that explains in detail the how and why of the book. At the beginning of each exercise is a short description of what fingers the exercise works. Rumor has it that the pianist Vladimir Horowitz was buried with a copy of the book. I believe you can even down load a copy free in pdf.

Virtuoso Pianist

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[This message has been edited by Stephenm52 (edited 08-27-2007).]