Falling to a Piano Key

Beforek, we could maybe try to do it but the piano wouldn't respond to it as it would later on.

But let's start with the whole arm technique.

The Whole Arm Technique

This Piano technique is based on three main actions that occur when we press a piano key. (All three actions occur for a split of a second).

2. We fix our hand on the key: Otherwise we have no control on the tone pressed. Our hand should not be stressed though. Sometimes I imagine as if I'm slowly drowning to the key.

3. Then we lift our finger(s) - If we leave our finger(s) too early it creates pausas between the notes which bother the musical idea. If you leave it too late, you can't play fast enough.

The key on falling to a piano key is to be loose - No stress involved

Remember that gravity is working on our side, so there's no use pushing the key. It's enough to fall to it.

It's important to realize that once you pressed a key you can't do anything in order to control its sound.
You basically have to loosen you wrist and let it go.

People clame often that the hardest thing in life is letting go.
We're great in working long hours but some of us find it so hard to simply do nothing.

We're always busy with doing something. Thinking about something. Going somewhere.
This is where music helps you to learn to simply rest. Do nothing, be in the NOW. Now let's practice a simple exercise

An E.D. Exercise on Falling Correctly to a Piano Key

Once you're done with this exercise you'll be fully aware of these actions and they'll become automatic. Stick with this exercise for a while.

The Active Fingers Playing

So, as I explained before, as opposed to the whole arm technique we're going to only move each finger seperately when using the active fingers playing.

What we're going to do is position our right hand on the middle C position again and start climbing up to C to G and back.

This time we'll keep the hand position steady, we'll make sure the wrist is loose and that our hand isn't stiff.

We'll try to move the thumb only, then switch to the second finger and leave the thumb only once the second finger is pressed.
We'll continue that way by making sure we're loose and that we only move one finger at a time.

Before we'll drop a finger to a piano key we'll first raise it up in order to give it extra distance to go through in order to produce a clearer sound.
That's what we call ACTIVE fingers

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If you follow the full course go to the next piano lesson where you'll learn to read piano notes in the bass staff.