Journal · Video
When You Correct the Hand, What Actually Changes?
10 min 1 sec ·
This video accompanies the Journal essay — Can a Piano Movement Be Correct and Still Be Wrong? — from The PianoWell System. Watch it here, then read the full essay for the complete argument and detailed study.
About this video
Two pianists can trace the same wrist movement and learn two entirely different things. Emma Leiuman looks at what a movement is responding to—imagined sound, inner singing and direction—and why a technically correct gesture can still be wrong when it has been separated from its musical cause.
Two hands may trace the same visible path while learning two entirely different things. Perhaps technique is not only the movement we can see, but what that movement is responding to.