Natural Arm Motion at the Piano: Arm Weight and Weight Transfer

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When playing the piano, it's essential to feel naturalness and ease in your arm motions, through arm weight and weight transfer.
This video is about the concepts of arm weight and weight transfer as applied to piano technique. The video has three parts: first I explain the concept of weight transfer, then I demonstrate weight transfer in action, and I finish with some exercises to help you get started with weight transfer in your own playing.
This video is a follow-up video to my video on ARM WEIGHT. If you haven't seen it, you can go back and watch it here:
• Arm Weight Exercises a...
0:00 Introduction
0:23 Relaxation is only part of the story
2:23 What is weight transfer?
3:51 Weight transfer in action
4:13 Bach: Prelude in C Minor, WTC Book I, BWV 847
5:07 Debussy: Arabesque No. 1
6:26 Five steps to learn weight transfer
7:44 How to do the “drop and hoist” motion
9:28 Hanon Exercise #1
10:31 The role of the fingers in weight transfer
12:14 Dohnányi Exercise #12
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👉OTHER VIDEOS IN THIS SERIES:
Series Intro: 5 Foundations of Piano Technique Overview:
• 5 FOUNDATIONS OF PIANO...
Hand Position: • Hand Position at the P...
Finger Alignment: • Finger Alignment at th...
How to Stop Over-Curving Your Fingers: • How to Stop Over-Curvi...
Forearm Rotation at the Piano: • Forearm Rotation at th...
Arm Weight: • Arm Weight Exercises a...
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23 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 52

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd 2 года назад

What would you like me to make a video about? Please leave your answer in the comments!

@RoseLee23 2 года назад

As a beginner, I think I will always have curiosity, doubts, questions, etc, about learning the piano (and music, of course). Music is a vast and surprising world. Beautiful too - no doubt. If I may, I would ask you to make a video about intervals. What is the best way to study them? Is it *really* indispensable to recognize them by ear - even chords? (This sounds as a torture to me...). Another topic of interest to me are the symbols on the score, especially the unusual ones. Unlike all the abbreviations, this information is almost impossible to be searched. Videos about scores (inclusive, in general) would be very wellcome to many people, I think. This is a rare subject here, as far as I know. Ah! rhythm... Still a ghost to frighten me, even when the sun is shining...:) Well, I hope I made myself understood (my mother tongue is Portuguese...). Your pdf, linked in the description of this video, is a wonderful tool for the development of our technique! Thank you very much!

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd 2 года назад

@@RoseLee23 These are great ideas! Thank you so much for the suggestions. I will think about how to incorporate them into future videos. I'm glad you find the PDF helpful!

@RoseLee23 2 года назад

@@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Thank you!

@ethanking123 Год назад

Thank you so much, Dr. Boyd. Most piano teachers don't really teach technique but technique is the most essential thing in piano playing.

@pianonoob Год назад

This is the BEST piano technique video series ever ... so incredibly helpful. I am learning piano myself at home and your videos are amazing Kate, you can not imagine how eye opening these instructions you are giving are for a self-thought aspiring pianists like me. I was practicing Hanon at the beginning of my learning journey and I had to drop it because I felt it is not right thing to do. I started learning roughly 8 month ago and I always felt a lot of tension, so for last three or four months I am searching for resources online that tackle proper piano technique and I can say there are not many out there. I am so happy I have stumbled upon your videos. One can not simply comprehend what all these different practice books trying to teach you without proper understanding of fundamentals of piano playing technique. You can bet without studying technique and body movement, you will just end up hurting yourself. Thank you, thank you so much for making this available!

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Год назад

Thank you so much for your comment! I'm delighted you are finding these videos helpful. I originally had the idea to make these videos to help my collegiate-level students, but as you can see, the principles apply to any level of piano playing. Good luck with your practicing! 🎹😊

@sohailsamson828 2 месяца назад

Dr Boyd, you are a great teacher but also a very charming lady❤

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Месяц назад

Thank you! 😃

@AdalgeirFyrsson Месяц назад

This video was exactly what I needed! It answered all my questions and clarified everything perfectly. You're amazing, Dr. Boyd! Thank you so much!

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Месяц назад

Fantastic! So glad it was helpful!

@oldsportpianogeek440 Год назад

OMG! My new piano instructor started teaching me this and I thought the wrist movement was too exaggerated. I see you teaching this now and I am amazed. You just go that extra mile to make sure the student understands. Thank you for becoming the best reference at hand.

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Год назад

You're so welcome!

@RoseLee23 2 года назад

Thank you very much for this video! It will be really useful in my daily practice. The analogy you created is perfect and makes things clearer. Your explanations are always excellent.

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd 2 года назад

Thank you! I'm so glad it was helpful. Good luck in your daily practice!

@stephenscottbrewer5184 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much!

@desaibha Год назад

What a wonderful service you are providing to budding pianist. Thank you so Much for your time and efforts, professor. God bless you.

@pskupferman 8 месяцев назад

Measures 37 and 38 of the revolutionary etude is a sphinx enigma for the left hand. I find myself tensing up when I incorporate the right hand. Alone I'm fine.

@lidiahamalis3471 10 месяцев назад

Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!! Essential technique.

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd 10 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful! 😊

@patd9903 10 месяцев назад

Thank you .professor for the detailed explanation in this video as it gives the greatest understanding of how use arm weight and weight transfer in our playing.

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd 10 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@francescoclemente3882 Год назад

Ottimo

@shaunreich Год назад

This is great, the walking analogy and technical explanation of it even in the walking context makes a lot of sense to me. Nice work

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Год назад

Thanks! Glad you're here!

@a.a.dehulster7567 Год назад

Great lesson, thank you! It cured my pressing into the keys after the accents, feels comfortable and improves control and sound quality.

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Год назад

Glad to hear it! Nice work!

@jimredner2649 5 месяцев назад

I have tried many times to mimic this motion, but no one has ever explained and demonstrated it as well as you have in this video. When I saw your wrist drop to play finger 1 and lift while playing fingers 2,3,4, and 5, as in Hanon #1, it really started to make sense. I hope I am correct in this observation. Thank you so much for your explanation and demonstration!

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd 5 месяцев назад

Wonderful - so glad to hear it "clicked" for you! Good luck!

@michaelcoolen8716 2 месяца назад

There is a lot of similarity between this and some of Gyorgy Sandor's approach. Your presentation is clearer to me, but then again you take more time, and, for the most part, Sandor's information is only n book form (On Piano Playing). Any thoughts about that? Thanks so much. After almost 60 years of playing piano, I feel revitalized!!

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd 2 месяца назад

Thanks for your comment! I read that book a long time ago, but I don't remember the specifics any more. I'll check it out again!

@michaelcoolen8716 2 месяца назад

My schedule time is 11 am, but I spend betwen 15 and 20 minutes before that taking a "lesson" from you. Thank you so much. Michael

@a.a.dehulster7567 Год назад

I ‘d loved to see a video about repeated chords, as f.e. in Chopin’s prélude in E minor. How to get subtle control and how to use your fore-and upper arm for that. And of course fast repeated chords.

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Год назад

Noted! Great ideas!

@a.a.dehulster7567 Год назад

@@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Thanks for your lessons and sharing your knowledge as a superb pianiste and explaining it such a logical and comprehensible manner.

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Год назад

@@a.a.dehulster7567 Thanks so much for watching - I appreciate your kind words! 😊

@ah1548 Год назад

Thank you, Dr Boyd, for another great video! I'm still confused about a few things, though. Does the drop always correspond to an accent? Thus, if you chose to play Hanon #1 with accents on the 2nd and 6th 1/16, drop on 2 and 6 and hoist over the turn-around? Also, would you combine drop and hoist with forearm rotation (those 2-1-2 and 4-5-4 sequences seem such a natural place for it), or is that a conflicting movement which I should avoid?

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Год назад

Thanks for your questions! In response to the first question, the drop does correspond to an accent in that it will cause an accent, but not all accents in repertoire will be played by dropping. In response to your second question, when playing repertoire on the piano (as opposed to exercises) you will always be combining many different motions, so there will be places where you are dropping weight into the keys and also using rotation. That said, when practicing the "drop and hoist" motion in an exercise, I work on that alone, in order to master it regardless of the finger combinations and black/white key combinations, and practice rotation as a separate technical skill. I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any more questions! 😊

@christopherclark279 Год назад

Wonderful video! I must confess to being a bit sheepish about overdoing it with the wrist movement. Also, I I don’t seem to notice the integrity of the hand bridge at the bottom of the drop of the wrist; I realize the goal is not to linger there. I still do have the solid feeling in the fingertips though. Any advice would be welcome

@satwik1268 6 месяцев назад

Hey prof, great video. I wanted to ask since most of the time, the left hand plays the notes lighter than the right hand, I'm not able to use arm weight to play the left hand as I'm able to do with the right hand. I can feel the tension in the left as i try to play it lighter. An example piece would be Chopins Nocturne op. 9 no. 2. Can I play lighter but still use arm weight to do it?

@karenchiupianist0328 9 месяцев назад

like I am having a 13min lecture , thanks Dr.boyd , my students often feeling hard to do the dynamic contrast at first ,would you mind also doing a video explaining on that >< thx a lot , hope you won't mind 🙏

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd 9 месяцев назад

Great suggestion! Thanks!

@karenchiupianist0328 9 месяцев назад

thankyou 😄@@ThePianoProfKateBoyd

@jeffsims5683 2 месяца назад

I understand to release tension as soon a possible, but what about when there are Longley held chords in music? For example in alot of smooth jazz music I hold alot of chords for that smooth background sound

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd 2 месяца назад

Just keep the keys down but don't press into the keys while you're holding them.

@josiahlemay2660 Год назад

Just tried those hoist and drop exercises for the first time. Is it normal for my forearm to feel a little tired after doing those a few times? I check my arm after the release (like you suggested in your other video on arm weight) and it seems pretty loose and relaxed but afterwards it almost feels like a light workout.

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Год назад

Can you tell me more? Where are you feeling the fatigue?

@igotbit9454 4 месяца назад

Do you do one on one coaching lessons online?

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Месяц назад

Here's a link to sign up for a session with me: thepianoprof.com/consultation/

@jcappo152 6 месяцев назад

What is the difference between Dohnányi and Hanon?

@ThePianoProfKateBoyd 6 месяцев назад

They each composed a different set of exercises for learning the piano. Generally speaking, the Dohnányi goes over more advanced technical concepts, and the Hanon consists of finger exercises and scale patterns that would be accessible to students at earlier stages of their journey.