The Use of Multimodal Feedback in Retraining Complex Technical Skills of Piano Performance

The Use of Multimodal Feedback in Retraining Complex Technical Skills of Piano Performance

The Use of Multimodal Feedback in Retraining Complex Technical Skills of Piano Performance

Medical Problems of Performing Artists • June 2005 Biofeedback

Piano students working to improve technique often practice the same passage over and over to achieve accuracy, increase speed, or perfect interpretive nuance. However, without proper skeletal alignment of hands, arms, and shoulders and balance between the muscles involved, such repetition may lead to difficulties with, rather than mastery of, technique and stylistic interpretation and even physical injury.