Title: Finger Strength Exercises Are Not A Breakthrough
Product review: The author subscribes to the finger strength school of piano playing technique and gives about 90 pages of photos and exercises for strengthening fingers. Any pianist who has found that finger strength is not the basis for piano technique might be dismayed with the author's approach.However the book also includes a couple brief, well organized chapters not related to finger exercises: one on Memorization, another on specific ways to optimize your practice time.Even though I do not agree with the author's premise that every clean downstroke of a finger is preceded by a preparatory upstroke (in fact that statement seems absurd if you watch a lot of pianists play the piano), his book has forced me to think very clearly about how I want to teach piano technique to beginners.
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