Curious about "topics the internet left behind," where there's tons of deep knowledge in old books, but most everything online's shallow & Yahoo Answers-like. Serious piano practice technique is a good example; culinary composition is another.
Why do some topics end up that way?
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Incidentally, on the serious piano practice point, I was pleased to stumble across this web book, which did actually present me with some interesting new ideas: tals-of-piano-practice.readthedocs.io/chapter1/index
e.g. on tremolos:
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It's interesting to me that you use piano practice as an example. Given the difficulty of describing what to do via print, I've thought of video as a much better medium for exactly this! There are thorough discussions by Graham Fitch and John Mortensen that I've found very useful
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And although her videos are short, I think Nahre Sol does a terrific job of putting a lot of information in a small space, e.g.
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Conversely, I've been trying to work on organ technique and am using books for it, and I often have no idea what sound the author wants me to go for. I don't think a book can tell me how legato "ordinary touch" is supposed to sound, even when the authors are excellent.
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(Nahre Sol looks quite good—will check these out!)