Try stretching your fingers apart and moving them quickly. Stretched fingers cause fatigue and fingers are less flexible when stretched. The other key thing about fingering is you don't want to stretch fingers if you can avoid it. Same kind of thing happens in piano fingering all the time. To use 5th, I have to move my whole arm toward the screen, which is a much bigger deal. To use 4th, I only have to move my wrist to the right. While pinkie may seem logical at first, it is much shorter on my hand than 4th. I use my 4th finger for Backspace, not 5th (pinkie). This example, of using the right pinkie for Backspace, is a good analogy with piano fingering. His youtube channel is a bit hard to navigate but this playlist is a good starting point: I cant speak for the long term success of his technique, but i like the approach and it makes sense to me with respect to other skills i have aquired before. there is also a lot of simple improvisation inside a chord from the beginning. Other aspects are: getting your ego out of the way, trusting in you inherent musicality and allowing you creative source to steer your fingers to express your emotions and avoiding conscious interference. this becomes possible through visualizing scales and chords from the beginning. He puts heavy emphasis on practicing with your eyes closed from the beginning. He calls his approach a "philosophical approach" to learning the piano and to me it seems quite influenced by daoism or zen. This reminds me of the piano teacher (danthecomposer) I am following on youtube: It's actually beginning to sound like actual music!įor him I think closing the eyes got him out of his mentality of just rushing the pieces, it put him out of his comfort zone and that has made all the difference. He plays with the correct rhythm, corrects any mistaken notes because well mistakes compound, even his dynamics sound right now. So his teacher now says go learn with your eyes closed. He's like 40% of the way there now, better but no where near close.
Good I think, so I have him go memorize each piece and give me a concert once a day. So his teacher tells him to memorize the pieces. So he gets to the end of his lesson book, good enough to play through the pieces but really only 20% done learning the pieces. As he learned his pieces he would fall into just horrible habits of wrong tempo dynamics, etc. My 10 year old son has been learning to play for the past couple years. I'm a classically trained pianist as well, though a couple decades out of practice. This applies to things like typing on a keyboard as well, if you focus on correct finger placement (and correct use of the 4th and 5th fingers), your WPM might take a hit for a few days or a week, but in the long term it really helps. This is completely true, for instance, in ragtime, the left hand makes big, quick jumps and there is often no time to look at where it will land (which one likely does when playing slowly), so repeating a bar over and over again to incrementally refine your distance estimate is crucial.
What is likely happening is that the hand motions you are using-which come naturally at the slower tempo you started with-simply will not work at such high speeds. > you may reach a point where you can’t play any faster, no matter how hard you try. If you start out correctly, the rest will follow, and IME, sight reading greatly improves as well. When I was an impatient kid my piano teachers would keep insisting I play sections slow on a first pass, which annoyed me (it was like reading a book out loud slowly), but it was only until many years later when I played pieces like Un Sospiro which are intractable if you do not start practicing at something like 16 times slower than performance tempo. from the very beginning you are never going to get around to “fixing” it later. > Use the correct fingering, dynamics, articulation, etc. Classically trained pianist here (since 7 years old), I like the article's advice.
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