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When playing your piano, it is one thing to know what you want to play and it is another thing to direct your fingers to play all what you have in mind.
Piano technique is often misunderstood by beginners as a skill you must be born with or a skill that requires long fingers. It's more about learning to use your hands and fingers comfortably and how to hit desired keys on the keyboard with your fingertips. The first step toward the goal of playing piano professionally is learning proper hand and finger placements. While there are many different ways to finger chords on a guitar but the piano is linear and requires a more strict way of learning chord fingerings.
This lesson will help you in training your hands and fingers so that they will be able to do what you ever want them to do or play.
- Practice stretching your fingers as far as they can go without causing pain or injury. It's actually a good idea to relax the whole body, especially the arms and shoulders. A good way to warm up for piano is to shake your hands and arms until tension can no longer be felt. You can also use one hand to massage the fingers on the other hand.
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- One of the most understated methods to developing piano technique is simply to relax the hands and fingers, even when stretching fingers. Ultimately, you want playing to feel effortless. One way to make finger stretching feel effortless is to practice octaves with the thumb on a low note and your pinky on the high note. Use one of your other fingers to play a note in between. Apply this practice to both hands and concentrate on building strength in your weaker hand and fingers. Even though relaxing is important, beginning piano players must still learn to deal with a certain amount of discomfort as they train their muscles to move flexibly.
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- Let the palms of your hands point down with the tips of your fingers on the keys, as if you were holding a ball in each hand. Let each thumb and fingertip rest on a separate key and work on not raising fingers after they strike keys. Concentrate on not banging on keys, but using enough force to create sounds.
- Another important aspect of piano technique is memorization. Think of each thumb and finger as having a number and also think of each finger as corresponding to a note on the keyboard even when you are nowhere near a piano. It's a good idea to learn to play piano without watching your hands, so that you can read music while playing or singing for an audience. this helps remind you that each finger serves its own purpose and also reduces the clumsiness beginners may initially feel.
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