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		<title>The pianist at Work</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I practice very industriously…” – Quote Ferruccio Busoni, Letters to his wife 1895-1907, London, Edward Arnold &#38; Co. http://www.rodoni.ch/busoni/bibliotechina/letteregerdaEN/gerdaEN1.html Do these words of Ferruccio Busoni sound familiar to you? They certainly do, especially if you are a pianist with your &#8230; <a href="http://www.thepianist.com/2008/11/the-pianist-at-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“I practice very industriously…” – Quote Ferruccio Busoni, Letters to his wife 1895-1907, London, Edward Arnold &amp; Co. <a href="http://www.rodoni.ch/busoni/bibliotechina/letteregerdaEN/gerdaEN1.html">http://www.rodoni.ch/busoni/bibliotechina/letteregerdaEN/gerdaEN1.html<br />
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Do these words of Ferruccio Busoni sound familiar to you? They certainly do, especially if you are a pianist with your heart and soul like Busoni was. He was the pianists´pianist, the musicians´musician. To be as good as he was, or at least if you want to play with his virtuosity and to have a profound knowledge about piano playing, you have to do only a simple thing: practice!</p>
<p>Oh my God, this terribly sounding word…our teachers threatened us with it, I am sure that the more your piano teacher repeated this word during the lessons, the less you wanted to do it.</p>
<p>I practiced up to seven hours a day during the time of my former music education, not only because my teachers said that, but also because I felt that spending many hours at the piano was necessary to get an appropriate technique.</p>
<p>However, practicing should not be just a matter of being a diligent student. If you consider your daily practice like a passionate exercising, you will be improving both your finger technique and your entire personal expression as a pianist.</p>
<p>Practice is the secret of being good in life.</p>
<p>If you repeat every day a task you are still not experienced with, you will be able to discover the strong power of practicing.</p>
<p>Practicing is repeating, repeating is learning, learning is living. And living is knowing more and more who you really are.</p>
<p>Maybe you are now fascinated by reading this and you want to know more about efficient piano playing.</p>
<p>But we will make a break now.</p>
<p>Do you know why?</p>
<p>Because we go practicing…</p>
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