Ten Musical Commandments
by Fanny Waterman
1. Keep your back straight and your fingers rounded.
2. Practise
regularly every day.
3. Before you start playing any unfamiliar music,
clap the rhythm, counting the beats aloud.
4. Choose fingering most
suited to your hand, write it on the music and keep to it.
5. Hands
separate before hands together.
6. Practise slowly before playing up
to speed.
7. When practising, correct any mistake immediately and play
the passage several times correctly before going on or back.
8. Play
any piece with precise rhythm throughout before introducing any rubato or
rhythmic freedom.
9. Follow all of the composer’s markings.
10. Listen to every sound you make on the piano.