technique

tekniikka, tekninen taituruus

menettelytapa puhekieltä The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. (defdate)
1924, HE Wortham, A Musical Odyssey, p. 97:

Brahms, after realizing that the technique of the piano was developing along mistaken lines, and his own danger of stereotyping his style, keeps away from it for most of his middle age ....

Yet those who packed concert halls to listen to him sing, as Indians did for over six decades, rarely mentioned his technique.

They said executives were warned about one technique nicknamed "carpet karaoke", which involved bending deportees over in aircraft seats to silence them.