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EPISODE 32: Teaching Technique to Beginners 00:00 Welcome to our guests, Dr Rae de Lisle & Melody Deng each sharing their journey to the development of the Fit 4 Piano book. 08:40 Glory speaks to Paul about the new book, The Power of Why - the first in a series of anthologies from musicians and teachers from around the world sharing their "why?". You can pre-order your copy here. 12:15 Rae answers, "How do we know where to start with good technique?" 17:21 Melody shares her experience of using Fit 4 Piano with beginners. 18:45 Using the technique of "falling" on to the piano key. 23:56 Joint support and collapsed knuckles. 28:20 Applying the technique to Bach's Minuet in G 29:00 Teaching staccato technique 33:50 Working with more advanced repertoire on staccato 35:29 Annette from Singapore's question: "How do you teach a student who has right and left hand coordination problems?" 37:56 Diane Ellerton asked, "When playing music that involves hands crossed over, which hand should should play over the top of the other hand?" 40:00 Seating position and sit bones. Jane Shellshear's Master Class from Q+A Episode 14 would be helpful. 41:55 Teaching two note slurs 45:45 More on advanced legato playing 48:30 How to teach "Rotation" effectively 52:00 Teaching advanced rotation 56:12 The difference versions of Fit 4 Piano book 57:20 10% off for Q+A viewers. Use the COUPON CODE: pianoteachingsuccess21 61:15 Rae demonstrates the techniques from the Grade 4 piece "Sonatina in A" by Georg Benda. Join the Piano Teaching Success Facebook Group The virtual studio audience is limited to 100 seats but we will be streaming live to Facebook if you don't get a seat. https://www.facebook.com/pianoteachingsuccess Our studio audience will have the opportunity to ask questions and get answers from our panel of experts.   When is PTS Q+A on? The show is on Wednesday in the USA/Canada and Thursdays everywhere else: In the USA & Canada we're live on Wednesdays: Pacific US 7pm • Central US 8pm •  Eastern 9pm In Australia Thursday @ 11am (AEST) - Check out the time in your TIMEZONES NZ 1pm  • Japan 10am • HKG, SIN, Malaysia, 9am • Indonesia 8am • South Africa & Central EU 3am • UK 2am Australian Times: Thursday QLD/NSW/VIC/ACT/TAS 11am •  SA/NT 10:30am • WA 9 am   WHAT TIME is Q+A on where I live? If you can't make the live time, we will send you the show notes and replay.   We are looking forward to seeing you this week. All the best,