“Much more than a practice room Norris’s studio was an experimental laboratory.  Each run-through is unlike the last. Move the melody to the bass line, play the entire passage without thumbs, count aloud whole bars, transpose the entire piece a half-step down or two octaves up: with a dose of flexibility, it isn’t difficult to be inventive when practicing. If you catch this spirit, these pages will become an invaluable aide to you, a guide book that will lead you beyond the status quo of repetitious practice and towards a new repertoire of ways of listening to and performing music. Bon voyage!”

Adina Mornell
Pianist and Professor of Instrumental Pedagogy
University of Music and the Dramatic Arts
Graz, Austria