The Best Piano Exercises for Beginners

Work in steps: Practice the RIGHT HAND first, then the Left Hand and combine BOTH HANDS only afterwards.

Example:

Play Legato between the first and fifth fingers as you shift the hand position one key up at a time.
As you completed the shifting process, shifting from middle C to the higher C reverse the formule to 5-4-3-2-1 and descend all the way back to middle C.

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Practicing Steps Piano Exercises

These next few piano exercise focuse on ascending and descending stepwise like.
The step is the most basic elements in creating progress in music.

Practicing Skips Piano Exercises

Skips are the second common element in musical melodies. A skip paves the way to a musical climax.
The skip can suggest an emphesis on an harmonic moment. You can preform skips in different intervals going up and down.

Practicing Skips and Steps Piano Exercises

The combination of Skips and steps creates various melodic lines. The art is to know how to combine it beutifully.

Practicing Intervals Piano Exercises

Legatto and Staccato Piano Exercises

When you play Legato there should be no silence when moving from one note to the next.

Coordination Piano Exercises

These next piano exercises deal with coordination. Until now we practiced each hand apart first, later we combined both hands together while each hand plays one note at the same time.

In these next exercises (Arranged according to level of difficulty) you will play one long note in the left hand and four, three or two notes in the right hand and vice versa. (Starting from four notes and going to two notes.)

Both hands should play legato in these exercises. It's easier to play legato with the right hand but you should keep in mind that the left hand should play connected as well.

Two notes and Three Notes Phrases

We already discussed how Legato should be played in the previous piano lessons.
However, in this exercises another element of Legato appears. The first should be slighltly accented and the last one should be slightly softer (fading away). Read the instruction carefully and work with your wrist.

Each of the tones of the two-note phrase is treated differently: The wrist is lowered when we play the first tone (Which makes it accented),and when we play the second tone we raise our wrist (In order to produce a softer tone).

Three note phrases should be played the same as two note phrases except the middle note should be connected to the first and the last note.

What you can do is invent your own piano exercises as well. We'll be adding more piano exercises in the future, so stay tuned.

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