How to play the piano in a virtuoso, expressive and at the same time free and relaxed way? Prof. Ilja Scheps uses a selected and tried and tested repertoire to show how every piano player, whether beginner or advanced, can become a sound artist within a very short time. His sound-oriented piano playing goes beyond mere technical mastery of the instrument and emphasizes the creative and expressive power of the music. The focus is on a beautiful articulation of sound for a lively and constantly reinterpreted sound culture full of musical communication and emotional expressiveness, which can already come to fruition when warming up.

Preface - I. Waking up the fingers – waking up the ears: 1. Little exercises for the body and hands - 2. Sitting properly at the piano - 3. Rotating movements as the basis for loose wrists - 4. Five-finger patterns for both hands - 5. Dexterity in the fingers - 6. Scales and arpeggios - 7. Hanon exercise - 8. Czerny Studies - 9. Waking up the ears - II. Warm-ups using excerpts from the piano repertoire: 1. Training finger dexterity and looseness in the wrists - 2. Scales - 3. Arpeggios - 4. Playing octaves and chords with alternating hands - 5. Warm-ups for the ears - 6. Completing warm-ups