this is another golden tip from you! focusing much on the prescribed fingering oftentimes is too constraining specially for some beginners. we must enjoy music pieces by playing alternative fingerings that would suit our hands.
Again, thanks so much for the wonderful lesson....it’s interesting you mentioned the problem of writing in too much fingering 🙁 I have found myself playing by number as opposed to looking at the notes! I now white out most of the fingering and just note where I need to change positions.
@@thekingsson1757 I don't recommend it! Much better in the long run to train yourself to recognise the notes instead of just reading numbers. Good luck 😊
Sometimes when the original pace of the piece is really fast, I encountered examples where there is probably just one or two types of fingering one could use right before big jumps for example. And I've tried a few and there is basically one way way to do it and it has to be as smooth and fast to be able to keep the pace without letting anyone where you just switched fingers. So, the correct fingering is crucial to play at high speeds because you basically can't spare a nano second more. At the same time, the fingering used can be a bit strange and feels foreign at first. But I feel like those types of difficult spots in a piece helped me learn new ways of fingering and broadend my horizon and get more flexible with fingering in general. Actually, there is not so much to learn about fingering, I guess I use the same structure most of the time but there are outliers. I believe it is advantageous to use many fingering styles even those that seem awkward at first. They might seem awkward but they might at the same time be the most optimal fingering for a very specific spot to he executed perfectly. and not feeling the need to play something according to a fingering you are used to can be quite freeing. I would love to hear anyone's perspective on this. :)
It’s often helpful to look at some different editions of a piece to see what fingering suggestions different editors make; sometimes you’ll find a suggestion that you would never have thought of but that works beautifully. The Petrucci Library online is a great resource for this. 😊
Hello Leah, Great tutorial. I am gradually going through your videos and I feel so much confident now. Thank you. By the way, doing great learning Haydn's Little Serenade, what a delight to play. Still struggling with my rhythm and tempo but working hard to overcome my handicap.
Appreciate the lesson. I'm the ultimate novice and have attempted to play sheet music but am struggling because I'm constantly looking at my hands. I'm attempting to keep my eyes up and am doing better. My technique is fingers and thumb on five different keys and sliding my hand across the keys should I need to change position, also using the black keys as landmarks.
@@LeCheileMusic no....I wasn't reffing to flip the staff vertically 🙂...just because there are 5 black horizontal lines in the staff as there are 5 black half tones on the piano keyboard in a octave,...and there are 7 white notes in the octave...it is more visually perceptible and psychologically easy to remember...black notes on black lines and white in-between...of course...two semitones E and F, could be written in the same space with different notation...and if those two have to be played together to resolve that with different symbol notation...🤔 I.e. to use color code
This video really helps me! Finally someone who explains in detail how to find the optimal fingering. Thank you for your really good videos❤
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this is another golden tip from you! focusing much on the prescribed fingering oftentimes is too constraining specially for some beginners. we must enjoy music pieces by playing alternative fingerings that would suit our hands.
great teaching...and articulactivness...
Thank you very much for this tutorial! This was very helpful. Especially the comment about when to use your thumb on black keys.
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Again, thanks so much for the wonderful lesson....it’s interesting you mentioned the problem of writing in too much fingering 🙁 I have found myself playing by number as opposed to looking at the notes! I now white out most of the fingering and just note where I need to change positions.
That's great, Kathleen, best of luck with it :-)
I am a beginner can you really play by number instead of reading notes
@@thekingsson1757 I don't recommend it! Much better in the long run to train yourself to recognise the notes instead of just reading numbers. Good luck 😊
Sometimes when the original pace of the piece is really fast, I encountered examples where there is probably just one or two types of fingering one could use right before big jumps for example. And I've tried a few and there is basically one way way to do it and it has to be as smooth and fast to be able to keep the pace without letting anyone where you just switched fingers. So, the correct fingering is crucial to play at high speeds because you basically can't spare a nano second more.
At the same time, the fingering used can be a bit strange and feels foreign at first. But I feel like those types of difficult spots in a piece helped me learn new ways of fingering and broadend my horizon and get more flexible with fingering in general. Actually, there is not so much to learn about fingering, I guess I use the same structure most of the time but there are outliers. I believe it is advantageous to use many fingering styles even those that seem awkward at first. They might seem awkward but they might at the same time be the most optimal fingering for a very specific spot to he executed perfectly. and not feeling the need to play something according to a fingering you are used to can be quite freeing. I would love to hear anyone's perspective on this. :)
It’s often helpful to look at some different editions of a piece to see what fingering suggestions different editors make; sometimes you’ll find a suggestion that you would never have thought of but that works beautifully. The Petrucci Library online is a great resource for this. 😊
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This video is so helpful Leah! Thank you so much! Such a sweet piece. Thank you for sharing! See you soon! 😁👍🏼🙏🏼
Thanks Mon :-)
Very helpful..two additional posts might be about the difference btwn vertical playing and horizontal playing. Does fingering play a role in that?
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Hello Leah, Great tutorial. I am gradually going through your videos and I feel so much confident now. Thank you. By the way, doing great learning Haydn's Little Serenade, what a delight to play. Still struggling with my rhythm and tempo but working hard to overcome my handicap.
Thanks Viviana, it's such a sweet little piece, isn't it?
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Appreciate the lesson.
I'm the ultimate novice and have attempted to play sheet music but am struggling because I'm constantly looking at my hands. I'm attempting to keep my eyes up and am doing better. My technique is fingers and thumb on five different keys and sliding my hand across the keys should I need to change position, also using the black keys as landmarks.
Sounds like you're off to a good start 😊
I own a lot of pencils with erasers!
thanks for this video, very well explained and very helpful to me. also thanks for the sheetmusic, sounds really nice👍🙂
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It’s difficult to see the music on the page.
Thanks for the feedback, Lois 👍
wouldn't be more logical...on a staff...to write black notes on the lines and white in-between...,🤔
I believe the Klavierscribo method takes this approach. The traditional staff represents the piano keyboard sideways so that’s why it doesn’t.
@@LeCheileMusic no....I wasn't reffing to flip the staff vertically 🙂...just because there are 5 black horizontal lines in the staff as there are 5 black half tones on the piano keyboard in a octave,...and there are 7 white notes in the octave...it is more visually perceptible and psychologically easy to remember...black notes on black lines and white in-between...of course...two semitones E and F, could be written in the same space with different notation...and if those two have to be played together to resolve that with different symbol notation...🤔
I.e. to use color code
@@horizontbeskrajneinovacije6440 interesting
thank you