Curved fingers and stiff hands at the piano: what curved fingers really mean for your hands. Resting your hand on a table, not on its task. Normally your fingers are a little curved, but they are not stiffly rounded either. So curved fingers at the piano should be approximately the shape of that. This does […]
It is reassuring to work at one hand by itself while the other is not playing. The right hand is playing its small melody and the left is playing its small figuration pattern, and both are simple when separated; now they are together and nothing is familiar. This is not to say working at one […]
A piece may contain all the correct notes and still not be played rhythmically. It can happen that the note is early or the note is late; a rest may be omitted. This happens because the hands try to dictate the time, and while fingers have an excellent way of executing this action, their ability […]
To begin, simply sit at the keyboard and observe only the black keys for a moment; they are far from random. If you look across the length of the piano, you’ll see that black keys always appear in alternating sets of two and sets of three. Recognizing this pattern is perhaps the most effective method […]
