Hello everybody,

I already had started this thread at the ABF, but I think perhaps the best place to ask this is here, because it is a matter of teaching approaches.

Yesterday I had my week class with my piano teacher, and she started to work with me using Oscar Beringer - Daily Technical Studies for Piano. What you guys think about it? Do you use it? Or already used in the past?

I mean, of course I totally trust my teacher, but I'm a curious individual and I want to know different kinds of approach.

She told me that what I can learn from Czerny I can learn better (faster) from Oscar Beringer and Alfred Cortot (the other book we'll start soon, Principes rationnels de la technique pianistique), the problem is that Czerny is more "musical", while Beringer is boring, although valuable, stuff.

The other thing she told me was that this authors are modern and have written better methods than the old folks like Czerny, Hanon, etc, whose study might lead to wrong technical playing (?).

Well, that's it, hope one can answer these questions, I'll be very thankfull.

Cheers