Can I continue with my regular teacher after a retraining workshop with Lister-Sink?

Certainly you can. However, it is best if you and your teacher can allow the necessary time to absorb new habits and coordinations (your new neuromuscular program) and to master each level of coordination. Preparing a recital program or audition while retraining is not advised. The new habits take time to become automatic. In the beginning of retraining, you are completely absorbed in developing your kinesthetic awareness to monitor and control what your body is doing each step of the way. You need to give all of your attention to changing your fundamental habits. Focusing on learning lots of notes and musical interpretation will distract you from making those important changes in your body use at the piano.

Once these new patterns of coordination have become more automatic, you can safely return to the multi-tasking activity of making music. Of course, good coordination needs to be applied systematically to learning new pieces. Performance deadlines, prematurely challenging pieces, or pressure to learn quickly in the initial stages of retraining will tend to delay if not halt your progress.

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