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This was a very good ramble. What you said is very important and even more so for piano. On piano you can make all kinds of gestures and gyrations that have nothing to do with physical technique. Then there are motions like lifting the hand (great example) that are useful but not all the time. Pressing a key no, lifting from a key yes, etc. This will help your audience self learn or have good questions to ask their teachers next lessons!
Guitarist of 45 years just starting out on piano. Aside from the left right hand thing on guitar I approach new pieces like this. It is great advice. The slow thing is really powerful but convincing my students of its value is difficult. In fact most who fail do so because they just want to rush to be able to perform and end up doing badly as a result.
I practice every night from about 10 to 3 or 4 on the morning. I work in a restaurant in the evenings, so I practice when I get home before going to sleep. Usually wke up around noon and start the day
Curling your fingers consciously is not good. Your fingers will be rigid and you will hurt your hand. Your finger should fall onto the key. Don’t press the key with your finger, use your entire arm to position your hand so that your finger can fall gracefully.
i do think curling your fingers can be good for specific exercises like hannon for improving finger isolation and dexterity. But as a general technique in your playing it is going to hold you back.
Love the background music from 1:07. It`s actually from a Nintendo 64 video game, Supermario 64. Such an iconic melodi. It really brings memories from my childhood.
Hi Lieu. Will you be doing any more videos. I miss them. Would you be able to maybe do a video on the grade 3 to 4 bridge ive heard a little about. Is this a difficult transition from one to the other and how much better is the music. Thank you.
Make sure you aren't lifting your fingers. After you play a note your finger should go back up when relaxed. Like when you hold out your hand flick your finger with the other hand it will rebound back in a fraction of a second. If the tendonitis is in the upward facing part of the forearm or hand then it's surely to do with lifting. I think he recommends lifting in this video because it's good to do as a beginner in order to stretch the tendons, and you can't really injure yourself with beginner pieces. The other obvious reason is playing above your level. It's not something you should brute force as the tension bakes into your hand and you end up like me with no flexibility. Muscular tension is ok to loosen but tendon tension is not so easy to get rid of.
In your video ”5 things I wish I did when learning the piano” you practice two lines with hands seperately and then eventually practice those two lines with hands together. Should i learn the whole piece with hands separately first like method 1 in this video, or break the whole piece down into smaller sections and use method 1-4 on each section?
Curious where you see memorization fitting into this? I tend to memorize and learn at the same time. Do you suggest waiting until you’ve gone through all these steps before memorizing?
It all seems good with the exception of the "lifting" of the fingers -- lifting the fingers like that will create a lot of tension in the fingers, hands and wrists. I notice that -- fortunately -- you do not actually play that way.
