Piano FingeringIn this page I'll show you how to name the fingers and introduce you to the concept of placing you hands on the piano using different hand positions. Once we're done with that I'll show you a few piano fingering techniques. But let's take it one step at a time... ![]() Fingers have numbers. It's easier to name them that way. The thumb is the first finger of each hand. Pay attention to the fact that our hands are symmetric. The THUMB is the first finger of each hand.
When we play our fingers should be curved. Imagine you're holding a bubble. (I use the image of a bubble since you have to round you hand gently so it won't break). The palm of your hand has to be rounded as well. Many people tend to make it flat. Imagine you're creating a little tent with your hand. Now pay attention to your fingers. Do they all look the same? Not really ha? To begin with, our fingers have different lengths. More than that, the thumb is quite weird since it is positioned on the side as opposed to the other fingers. When we curve our fingers we help our fingers stand in one line more or less. By minimizing the gap between the differences of the lengths of the fingers we help ourselves create unity in the
sound we're going to produce on the piano. It's easier to play when all fingers are positioned equally on the piano. As for the thumb, this is a different story. We won't curve it but simply let it lay on its side because of its particular position. Keep your fingers rounded when you press a piano key. Don't break them. When we play piano we only use the pillow of finger. We play a key with the tip of our pillow close to the nail. This is an excellent tip that will help you keep your fingers round without breaking them and will assist in creating a clear bright sound. Hand Positions - The C Position
Different piano pieces are located on different areas on the piano. Therefore when we play the piano we use different hand positions.
A hand position is where you place the hand as you begin to play a piece. The concept behind using the hand position is to use all five fingers of the hand so won't have to perform complex operations with our fingers if not necessary (like crossovers and such (You can find all about advanced piano fingerings in here). During our piano lessons we're going to place our hands on different positions on the piano. Until further notice we will use the C position. We'll place our right hand thumb on middle C, the second finger on D and so on respectively, until our fifth finger is placed on G.have a look at the picture. In the first pieces we're going to play we'll be using only the right hand in the Middle C position. Later on we're going to add the left hand. When the time is right you'll see an image with the new hand position and the correct piano fingering that goes along with it. Later on, as we turn to harder piano pieces we will see that we can switch between the different hand positions.
The thing is that not all our fingers are equally strong. Therefore we'll have to practice a few piano fingering exercises in order to improve our piano fingering technique. If you're following the full course however, just continue reading. We'll get to that later. E.D. ExerciseHuh? E.D? What we're going to do is place our hand on the C position and ascend from C to G and descend slowly. When doing so, we'll make sure that our hand is rounded and that we play only with the pillow of our fingers without breaking them. when moving from one finger to the other we'll try to do it without creating pauses between the notes.
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