Your Piano Technique is Holding You Back | Perfect Form Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- Getting your basic form right in piano is incredibly simple BUT it gives you an astounding advantage to improve your piano skills and learn your pieces so much faster. Today I go through everything you need to know to get started playing piano with the right technique and form. This lesson is a step-by-step guide with a cheat sheet at the very end.
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Timestamps
Intro: 0:00
Finger Technique: 1:20
Wrist Technique: 4:27
Elbow Technique: 6:31
Shoulder Technique: 7:18
Leg Technique: 7:52
Outro and Cheatsheet: 8:34
thanks for watching :) i appreciate you.
super useful tips!
Keep making videos sir!
This is very good and helpful video, thank you!
Wow! This was such a good tutorial! Reduced to the essentials, very clearly explained, analytical and also a bit funny. Chapeau! Thank you.
Thank you for the good tips and the smiles 😄
Thanks! Very helpful.
Thanks for this video. I found it very helpful!!!
Very useful video. Will try this out. Starting to get advanced and I’m exp tension so maybe this will help
It seems unreal that you had 30 subscribers only 2 weeks ago, congrats for the grind your videos are incredible 👏
Great video! ❤
Great Job Lieu! This is the most in-depth and easy to understand video on this topic. This is essential to know!!
Brilliant delivery and friendly environment, makes me want to learn. Such a gem you are
Thanks you! This video helped a lot
Thanks a lot!
Very nice demonstration, please keep posting. Cheers from Jacksonville, Florida
This is the first video from you that I have watched, and I have to say that this is an excellent instructive video. Seriously, congrats and please keep posting stuff like this 👏👏👏
Great again. The stuff you are sharing I’ve heard before, but it just didn’t stick. You however explain in a great way, giving the reasons for positioning a certain way - instead of just an order to do so. Excellent 😊.
Thank ❤ this helping 😊😊
I thought I'd let you know. I think your videos are great, particularly the concise nature and your friendly delivery, you are fun, engaging and concise, all of which I like. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!! thanks for watching:)
True concise videos on certain topics allow for more engaging and focused videos which will also appeal to more people. Great vids
Excellent content and delivery, helps a lot in the learning process. Thank you!
took just one video for me to subscribe! I don't have time to actually do piano lessons so I'm teaching myself but Ive heard that a wrong technique is so easy to get when you're self teaching. Thank yiu so much!
you're awesome bro
Your channel is a treasure. Thank you! :-)
thanks so much
thank you this helps so much! My technique is pretty messed up since my progress was kind of rushed and I always neglected practicing technique
Another very useful video, thanks Lieu. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 encore, encore. Oh, and thanks for keeping the volume of the “elevator music” low. In the last video the music was distracting from your words.
Your detailed explanation on piano technique , shoulder relaxation, and leg involvement is incredibly helpful. As I rekindle my piano journey after two decades, your advice is truly valuable. Looking forward to implementing these tips for an improved playing experience, documented on my own channel! 🎹👍
1. Finger rounded is one way to play, it should not be a rule, because sometimes it not the best position ! Check out Martha Argerich, many times she has straight fingers (S. Richter, Sokolov, Cziffra too etc).
2. Not good to lift your fingers (except maybe for beginners, but at some point you don't want to do that). I saw many chinese pianists do that (playing most of the time "fast and loud"), this is not helping music and their body !
3. The wrist can tilt on side sometimes ! Try Godowsky étude 13 at good tempo.
I was wondering about some of these too. I thought the "new school" ideas were centered around neutral positions and minimal muscle activity from hand/finger muscles
@@Hobbyist387 I do not think there are really "new schools". There are many lines/legacies/schools and it seems that they often mix with each other. But there are also many not so knowledgeable YT pianists teaching things they do not really understand, with not so good or no follow up with students or just audience. But your are right about neutral position and minimal muscle activity, this is very good and fundamental in many lines (eg., russian, polish, recent french); but not that much taught in china for instance; they go backward in time to previous and spread very bad approaches.
@@MathieuPrevotThe Russian school of piano playing generated one of the best pianists ever including Vladimir Horowitz. I'm a Richter fan tho myself
@@schrysafis Few maybe ? I love Horowitz (Ukraine), he also have straight fingers too at times, he is also a god of performance and stage. Anyway, in this video, there is no russian/polish technique. This is BS.
Completely right. The video is just plain wrong.
Thanks for that video, with that in mind, what is the next step? I want to correct my poor posture, so it will take time to get used to it. How would you implement these tips into the playing? Practising only this for months or immediately moving to pieces and playing them slow with this technique .
Keep up the videos man, really helpful and good explained👍
Can i ask where you get your sheet music from? Is there a webside where you can get them for free? Great video btw :)
Really liked that one!
I could also focus way better on the content without the strong background music
Wow I have so many epiphanies by watching your video!
Your video is great, wish I'd found this earlier.
Want to learn Fantasie Impromptu in C-sharp minor, but thought it would be impossible without forcing my fingers through tension. All the while everything I self taught myself on piano was a lie. I need a piano teacher to teach me virtuoso technique ASAP!
Is there any reason for going deep and shallow into the keys. Does it make a dufference in playing
Loved the breakdown of technique, super useful lesson in just 10 minutes! Too bad you can't critique my technique because all I have are piano visualizer vids on my channel lol
Hi Brian 😊 Very usefull information!!! for me being a solitairy (TH-cam 😁) student... I have problems with some chords om my left hand when I am moving up the piano. My wrist becomes in an awkward position then. So must I also move my torso to the right in that case to keep my wrist straight?
Another problem I have is making big spans with some chords and fingering 4 tones like in Gymnopedie 1 when I am hitting the DGBE, CEAD and CF#AD chords with my left hand. Do you have tips what to do to hit these chords in a good and natural way???
I also had that issue playing through gemnopedi but what I did with my left hand for the four tone was limit it to three note because there is a limit to the notes the left hand can play.
Right, you'll want to keep your body mobile as you play by scooching around on the bench. Perhaps try aligning your navel with the G above middle C as your starting position for that piece and bringing your body to the left when you hit the bass notes. Make sure to stay as relaxed as possible and keep your movement smooth as you do this.
@@twopoles11 Thank you very much for your advice!👍 and I will surely try this 🙂
holy shit your hands are huge! 0:04 hi :)
I keep developing tendonitis/rsi injuries. Twice in 5 months. Im hoping this will help me out.
Hi, i liked your video thanks and i think that you chould put background music it'll be better 😊
Watched this and realized I hold my elbows stifllly next to my sides like I do in typing. Going to my piano to relearn how to play.
You have my sincerest gratitude for keeping is short and simple
Horowitz, Gould and countless other greats knew better than limiting themselves to finger tips and curved fingers only.
Never miss leg day
1:17 no
Rounded fingers..........have you ever seen Joey Alexander play? His fingers are flat. I look at many professionals and many have flat fingers.
Truth is, every hand position provides a different sound. Some people do not know this.
Yeah, but they are professionals that probably have formed a solid technique that allows them to play as they want :)
This advices are great for students
@@vicentepulidodrevespiano2494 No, they aren't. When you tell students to round their fingers, 99% of the time they unnaturally curl up their fingers and it causes all sorts of horrible problems. And lifting the fingers is just going to get you injured.
This is why so many piano students are injured or uncomfortable while they play.
So maybe tell them to keep them relaxed with the wrist, in stead of curl. When the fingers and wrist are relaxed there is a natural curl to the hand
@@paulcinquini3718 I like your thinking, but I believe "relax" is often a dangerous word to use, though, because it implies the absence of muscular contraction and leads to motions being initiated in the wrong part of the body. "Neutral" and "free" are the terms I like.
But the hammer handle is straight, not curved.
bro needs to set up another channel teaching perfect yt growth. 2 weeks man got 3k
Finger technique is the technique for fur Elise the e ,e flat ,e,e flat part
It all seems good with the exception of the "lifting" of the fingers -- lifting the fingers like that will create a lot of tension in the fingers, hands and wrists. I notice that -- fortunately -- you do not actually play that way.
Curling your fingers consciously is not good. Your fingers will be rigid and you will hurt your hand. Your finger should fall onto the key. Don’t press the key with your finger, use your entire arm to position your hand so that your finger can fall gracefully.
i do think curling your fingers can be good for specific exercises like hannon for improving finger isolation and dexterity. But as a general technique in your playing it is going to hold you back.
What a vicious world we live in, where the youth, so full of passion reintroduce mistakes the older generations have already solved, and the average person who is none the wiser, see's a good looking, charismatic, impassioned young person, who scoffs at the experience and wisdom of age, presuming them to be nothing more than a bitter, resentful curmudgeon, jealous of the other's success.
It's all so tiring.