Excellent "lesson' in piano technical mastery. Makes a perfect Piano Practice exercise which I will use . The missing piece to my "Practice". So appreciative for your expertise Maestro. Thank you .
Several points for me here. Already changing position by lateral forearm movement, sometimes even in small intervals. Really instructive: moving from white to black key positions-play with flatter fingers. Obviously, this uses in and out. Yes, but context dependent for me. I have developed an intuitively inspired technique with higher wrist as default, then changing as needed. Higher wrist allows me more verticality on the black keys. Coming down not with curved but straigher fingers on both chords and melody notes, arm weight gives me finer control. Usually flatter fingers for black key combos. Higher wrists keep me on finger tips more than pads, pad on many more black note combos. Additionally, I have really tried to develop a forearm aligned straight behind the middle knuckle of the hand, possible most of the time. I had issues with wrist twisting and this is a way to overcome that. It requires new fingering combos on triads and inversions, depending on where I am on the board, especially the 8vas each side of middle C. Requires lots of elbow leading; using more 1-4-5 and 1-3-5 on 1st and 2nd inversions. More notes become different, especially in my jazz scores. I try to avoid twisting the wrist offline as much as possible. I would consider myself in early advanced at first blush, but can play more complex advanced with practice. My reading is getting better as I shed scores with edited fingerings, or ignore them which I didn't do for many years, which I can no longer watch; jump in the water and swim with whatever fingers happen to be there. Careful practice leads to more efficient position changes and finger combos. Some of this will change at really high velocity, which becomes a really different piece. Working on that too. Can't be heavy, light and clear are modes then. I am having fun with piano, and your wonderful teaching is helping me have fun-with steady and satisfying progress. You are a wonderful master teacher. Thank you again. Also, my ne
Very good. I like to add (i am not an instructor as Denis is) that I also learned to not so much focussing on the target key, but on the key from where to jump away. That key is the "jumping board". The target key is in muscle memory while the forearm is already almost there.
It’s actually more about how you balance staying relaxed not just staying relaxed period. If you stayed relaxed period you’d be immobile. It’s based around controlled ‘positive’ tension.
They say better late than never but I wish I’d been thought this before, when I started cause you unfortunately carry with the weight of your bad habits even if you got to reach a decent level at the piano
Hi denis, I've been watching you for a while and you helped me great, recently I noticed that my left hands fingers are slow and that I don't have full control over them (unlike my right hand), so wanted to ask you if you have any advice for that or perhaps exercises? Thanks in advance.
Practice scales, arpeggios, and passages with your left hand only, - starting slow and making sure to coordinate motions properly. Denis has a fantastic video on arpeggios I'd recommend watching to practice this. When your left-hand feels more coordinated practice these exercises slowly with both hands.
Thanks NGT, saved me some time😂 I will release a video on efficiency in scales and how to practice them within a couple of weeks as well, it might be helpful for you, Artem
On-the-fly sight reading helps improve this skill. It just means you open any score below your level and start playing non-stop til you reach the end. You make tons of mistakes, but you keep going. If you practice this every day, you gradually improve these leaps because the basis is to "read ahead" in anticipation of what you will play in order to mentally prepare to strike the notes.
Right, if you don’t care about result much. Otherwise, for professional sight-readers like collaborative pianists sight-reading increases the risk of over-use issues since they need to deliver good results with no time to coordinate motions, so they have to employ more tension than usual
I dedicated 3-7 hours a day to practicing piano for 20 years without taking any breaks since the age of 9. I always sought guidance from the best teachers. I understand that attributing someone's natural talent can sometimes serve as a comforting explanation for our own lack of skills, but I appreciate honesty and self-awareness in people.
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Thank you so much for the great advice 👏👏👍
Excellent "lesson' in piano technical mastery.
Makes a perfect
Piano Practice exercise which I will use .
The missing piece to my "Practice".
So appreciative for your expertise Maestro.
Thank you .
You have such an amazing channel, Denis! And you are amazing too! So glad I've discovered your UA-cam!
🤩😊
Thank you!
Several points for me here. Already changing position by lateral forearm movement, sometimes even in small intervals. Really instructive: moving from white to black key positions-play with flatter fingers. Obviously, this uses in and out. Yes, but context dependent for me. I have developed an intuitively inspired technique with higher wrist as default, then changing as needed. Higher wrist allows me more verticality on the black keys. Coming down not with curved but straigher fingers on both chords and melody notes, arm weight gives me finer control. Usually flatter fingers for black key combos. Higher wrists keep me on finger tips more than pads, pad on many more black note combos.
Additionally, I have really tried to develop a forearm aligned straight behind the middle knuckle of the hand, possible most of the time. I had issues with wrist twisting and this is a way to overcome that. It requires new fingering combos on triads and inversions, depending on where I am on the board, especially the 8vas each side of middle C. Requires lots of elbow leading; using more 1-4-5 and 1-3-5 on 1st and 2nd inversions. More notes become different, especially in my jazz scores. I try to avoid twisting the wrist offline as much as possible.
I would consider myself in early advanced at first blush, but can play more complex advanced with practice. My reading is getting better as I shed scores with edited fingerings, or ignore them which I didn't do for many years, which I can no longer watch; jump in the water and swim with whatever fingers happen to be there. Careful practice leads to more efficient position changes and finger combos.
Some of this will change at really high velocity, which becomes a really different piece. Working on that too. Can't be heavy, light and clear are modes then.
I am having fun with piano, and your wonderful teaching is helping me have fun-with steady and satisfying progress. You are a wonderful master teacher. Thank you again.
Also, my ne
Very good. I like to add (i am not an instructor as Denis is) that I also learned to not so much focussing on the target key, but on the key from where to jump away. That key is the "jumping board". The target key is in muscle memory while the forearm is already almost there.
Great job!
Playing piano is about always to stay relaxed not about hand size and stretching that can damage your hands great lesson ty
It’s actually more about how you balance staying relaxed not just staying relaxed period. If you stayed relaxed period you’d be immobile. It’s based around controlled ‘positive’ tension.
Thank you so much! This is inspiring😄
That is really helpful. Never thought of this. Thank you so much
Thank u 4 this
They say better late than never but I wish I’d been thought this before, when I started cause you unfortunately carry with the weight of your bad habits even if you got to reach a decent level at the piano
Hi denis, I've been watching you for a while and you helped me great, recently I noticed that my left hands fingers are slow and that I don't have full control over them (unlike my right hand), so wanted to ask you if you have any advice for that or perhaps exercises? Thanks in advance.
Practice scales, arpeggios, and passages with your left hand only, - starting slow and making sure to coordinate motions properly. Denis has a fantastic video on arpeggios I'd recommend watching to practice this. When your left-hand feels more coordinated practice these exercises slowly with both hands.
Thanks NGT, saved me some time😂
I will release a video on efficiency in scales and how to practice them within a couple of weeks as well, it might be helpful for you, Artem
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@@DenZhdanovPianist thank you, keep doing what you do!
On-the-fly sight reading helps improve this skill. It just means you open any score below your level and start playing non-stop til you reach the end. You make tons of mistakes, but you keep going. If you practice this every day, you gradually improve these leaps because the basis is to "read ahead" in anticipation of what you will play in order to mentally prepare to strike the notes.
Right, if you don’t care about result much. Otherwise, for professional sight-readers like collaborative pianists sight-reading increases the risk of over-use issues since they need to deliver good results with no time to coordinate motions, so they have to employ more tension than usual
God created some people more equal than others , obviously you were given more than your fair share of talent 😮.
I dedicated 3-7 hours a day to practicing piano for 20 years without taking any breaks since the age of 9. I always sought guidance from the best teachers.
I understand that attributing someone's natural talent can sometimes serve as a comforting explanation for our own lack of skills, but I appreciate honesty and self-awareness in people.