Study Guide

A Study Guide to The Craft of Piano Playing

A One-Semester Comprehensive Plan

Master the materials of both Alan Fraser’s books and his DVD with this convenient guide that organizes it all into a 13-week study plan.

A Study Guide to The Craft of Piano Playing (2009, 60 pp.) contains

  • section summaries
  • lists of key themes
  • sample questions to test your grasp of the material.

Links the materials from all Alan Fraser’s publications to 2010:

  • The Craft of Piano Playing (Scarecrow Press, 2003)
  • The Craft of Piano Playing DVD (Maple Grove Music 2006)
  • Honing the Pianistic Self-Image (Maple Grove Music 2010)
  • The Craft of Piano Playing, Revised 2nd Edition (Scarecrow Press, 2011)

The Study Guide empowers the student’s learning experience: making the mastery of Alan Fraser’s potent new approach to piano technique both more congenial and more effective.

An ideal reference tool:

  • for piano pedagogy courses using The Craft of Piano Playing as a textbook
  • for independent piano students and teachers

Read Excerpts from the Study Guide