PART II: FIVE-STEP TRAINING PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPING GOOD COORDINATION AT THE PIANO

Step 1 Increase general body awareness and control
Step 2 Develop awareness and control at the piano
Step 3 Train the "basic stroke" or basic form of playing
Step 4 Reinforce basic form through graduated exercises
Step 5 Apply good coordination to sequenced studies

PART III: POTENTIALLY HARMFUL TECHNICAL HABITS

•Raised, tightened shoulders
•Jutting, frozen elbows
•High, flat fingers
•High, stiff, curved fingers
•Artificially formed hand arch
•Holding finger off of keys
•Excessive key pressure and motion
•Supporting weight on lowered wrists
•Heavy, "relaxed" arms

PART IV: APPLYING GOOD COORDINATION TO MUSICAL REPERTORY

•Beginning, intermediate and advanced levels
•Slow-motion analysis of coordination in Debussy's Reflets dans l'eau and •Rachmaninoff's E flat Minor Etude Training for virtuoso repertory/in-depth analysis and preparation of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2