How to know which fingers to use when playing piano (For beginners)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2020
- Beginners often wonder how to know which fingers to use when playing piano? Well there's no set rules that work for everything unfortunately and learning how to make good finger choices is more akin to developing a wide vocabulary for different situations and developing fluency through experience. I play through some examples for melodies and for piano chords and show you my thinking along as well as discuss many tips to help you gain more confidence with fingering.
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as someone who’s self-taught and always using the wrong fingers when playing, it can be difficult to switch hands and it makes it more complicated when playing. I’ve decided to finally learn about this and it’s helping a lot!
Yea takes experience but it does get easier and you start to feel more control eventually!
I’m in the same situation
same
Do you think that practicing using flowkey app fingering position is good ? It shows you already the finger position so you don’t need to do the extra work of figuring out which finger to use
Agreed, relatable
This was my burning question for the past 3 years, and your video completely answered it.
Thanks a lot!
EXCELLENT! Finally someone who can explain this with solid examples, I'm a begginer accordionist and been struggling A LOT with this. Thanks a lot
Glad it was helpful!
This is one of the best piano videos on TH-cam.
Thanks, glad it was helpful
4:47 this is an eye-opener. I always thought the reason for me learning the scale fingering was so that I could play melodies or move across the piano like that. Thanks for the tip.
I originally thought the pinky finger played the melody note. THis helped immensely
Your videos have cleared up a lot of doubts that I've had for a long time
Thank you master 😇
As a former broadcaster, I can see that you also have a gift for talking about things that you love. You provide a great deal of context and detail to meet your goal of communicating these ideas, and for a beginner level player like myself, that detail is very important.
Thanks, appreciate the feedback, I'm glad it's helpful for you!
Finally I've found a video on this subject. Seems fundamental but not talked about much. Thanks a lot
Very clear, and concise.
Thank you for this explanation. I just started playing and this was a big question I had!!!
Your love for teaching shines through in every moment, and your dedication to delivering valuable content is evident. Thank you for sharing your expertise .
This is incredible! Thank you!
Merci for this. Your videos are always well thought out.
I just came across your channel. I'll look into more of your videos. Regarding fingering, I hate learning a new piece because I absolutely can't stand figuring out the fingering. I always tried to go over or under so as not to make jumps, but I see now that sometimes you just have to. You're so right about using the same fingering each time. A long time ago, my teacher told me that, too.
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I was wondering about finger placements. This video is extremely helpful.
Thanks for this upload I really needed it👍Great tips!!
Wow, THANK YOU so very much. This video is just what I've been looking for.
It's really loaded with great information on fingerings.
Again , THANKS !!! 🤗🤗🤗
very nice, thanks! You are amazing at giving confidence to try stuff
Great explanation! Thanks so much!
Very helpful. Thanks
Thank you, this helps a lot!
This is really a helpful video. Thank you.
This is really good teaching on fingering. Thanks much.
Wow, just now found this video!!! Thank you!!!
Phenominal video! Great advice.
Thanks. The mystery of hand positions made simple! 😊
I'm surprised that this channel doesn't have more views. The content is excellent. There's quite a bit of valuable instruction here but it can get lost if the viewer doesn't stop the vid and thoroughly understand each segment as it is presented.
Really good video. Thanks from Texas.
you are AWESOME DUDE!! THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR!!!!
Thank you!! Exactly what I was looking for :)
You are welcome!
Thank you!!! I was so stressed out. I just started playing. I started with Taylor Swift's Enchanted. I love the song and decided I was going to learn how to play it. I have zero experience. I just dove right in. I did what felt natural but then I panicked. I started a training course and they said put your fingers on middle. When I tried to play from that position, I would play most of the notes with my pinky😂😂😂. No dice.
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Real helpful indeed
Amazing teacher brother, just what I need.
Glad to hear it helped!
thank u, I also taught myself and this is very usefull. This is actually my first piano class ever.
Me too!
I only just started to learn to play the piano, but I am already at the point where I am trying to figure out how to move up/down the scale without tripping over my own fingers.
It takes a little while to gain a natural awareness of which fingers you're using but keep going, it'll come!
Sir you are best
I play multiple instruments and I feel like conundrums related to fingerings are uniquely challenging on piano it’s one of the things that frustrates me most about playing
It was useful but I think you moved a little to fast for me a beginner. But overall I was able to get some good tricks and steps. I now know what to start practicing next to up my piano game up. Thank you for the video 😁
Thank you for this. Have subscribed
Welcome aboard!
Thanks! This is best teaching channel I ever found.. God Bless you:) Thank You.
Can you please make a lesson on Harmony?
Thanks, appreciate that! I have lessons on chord building etc at the moment if you take a look around on the channel. Nothing as of yet about harmonising a melody but I do have some ideas for the future 🎹
amazing video!!! i'm a not-so-beginner starting to get a bit of control of the keys and i haven't found anyone going that in depth about this subject and specially not with so many practical examples! it really helped a lot thank you!!
Glad it helped!
Thank you u b awesome!!
I started out with the piano and now I play a Roland accordion. You, by far give the best tutorial on fingering. You must have had excellent piano teachers. My first piano teacher would rapt my knuckles when I played a wrong note. Not good.
just switched to piano from the mandolin and struggling. no set rules for finger positions, very easy to learn it the wrong way. will be great to see more videos on grouping the fingers, technique.
Just starting on keys. Obviously haha. Thank you! ❤
I thought everyone uses the same fingers for every song 😳 I didn’t know there was ootions
Great video. I tried playing by ear but ended up in hospital with concussion.
Yes, currently that is my struggle.
yes i struggle with it
Im not sure how you can do this with boogie woogie when you run up and down the keyboard?
thoughts?
What about when I look at piece if it's middle C or above middle C.
New to music playing and just curious - does using an app to help learn/recognise notes by ear help with learning to play in the short/long term? And if so, is learning that a difficult feat (am I naive to be thinking about this)?
Yes. You are tuning your ears. It helps you play from sound and also anticipation
Wow. So finger kinesthetic is integral in melody expression.
Yes this 👆
Teacher can i learn by using a roll up piano?
What app for Windows or Android could you recommend to write and edit your own sheet music? I want to try, but I'm afraid I can't do this just on paper yet
Check out musescore, it's great and it's free
Exactly what I needed to hear
You seem to have Genelec loudspeakers from Iisalmi, Finland. Are you satisfied with them??
Yes they're great! Had them for a long time now
I am just starting.
Good Luck!
Let It Be.
I used wrong fingers when playing piano for almost 2 years when studying piano by myself for the first time until I went to music school. My teacher scolded me for my mistake. It took me about 1 year to get my brain together and get them right 😂
I just wish all music sheets have proper finger position for guidance. To study a piece is already a challenge and to figure out which fingers to use makes life harder.
Me!
Very helpful my big challenge is knowing the fingering on piano right I don’t want to learn wrong fingering that will cause a bad habit
Glad it helped, takes experience too of learning things where the sheet or someone shows you the best fingering until you get really good at finding your own
I have small hands so I try to flip notes
I have five fingers but I use three of them 😅😂
I struggle
Possibly stupid beginner question - all of this focuses on one hand. Is the general rule that the left hand covers the left-hand side and the right covers the right? At which point do you switch hands when playing from left to right or vice versa? Maybe there's no right or wrong answer!
What about people like me, who do analyze things such as finger positioning... but to the extreme where I've got analysis paralysis. Find it so hard to move forward not knowing which route is the best route. Ahhh 😬
I'm 100 percent self thought and I have no idea what these words mean for example "scale" and "b flat"
I have a couple of old videos to suggest.
Naming the black keys th-cam.com/video/FqIqB9Q5Aeg/w-d-xo.html
About Scales and why we learn them th-cam.com/video/n-Mj1rnOZrM/w-d-xo.html
L.i.k.e.
I do not even have a piano lol
Same😭
So there's not just one way of positioning your fingers?
No it depends on what you're playing, sometimes there's only one way that could possibly work but often there's different things that would work. If you're learning scales and standard exercises like that, it's best to stick to the standard fingers though
@@PianoFromScratch Ooooh Thanks! :]
Lmao, my skills remain the same for 9 years beacuse I always skip fingering lesson and exercise. I have perfect pitch, know almost every chord but have a very poor execution and play wrong notes instead the riff I intended to play
My bloody thumbs are key stubborn 😣
LEFT HAND!!!!!! Why don’t you address the left hand from the beginning.
ah yes, another month wasted learning new things.
BEGINNERS????LOL
Yes, they’re examples to demonstrate principles, I assume you’re implying that there’s things I played which are too advanced for beginners. I can’t remember all the examples I used as this was from quite a while ago but like I say I was just trying to explain the thinking behind how we use fingers cleverly to help move around aiming to get people in the right mindset.
@@PianoFromScratch no prob yes it's pretty advanced. your fingers move slightly different because of experience
I do get it.. I'm a Spanish flamenco guitarist. 👍