Dear my online piano teacher, thank you for your great collaboration with Practical Piano Tips' channel. I would like to tell you that both of your content are totally amazing! I hope you guys have a blessed day. Thank you for sharing us this knowledge that I have never known before. God bless🌻
Thank you so much for this video! It has been years since I’ve had piano lessons but I remember needing to play with less tension, but forgot how to make that happen. Your video brought back many memories and also some new concepts to me that I’m very excited to try. Hopefully I can play more relaxed soon! :D Definitely going to check out the other channel you collabbed in this vid too 👍
Craig, it was great working with you! This video is exactly right! You are so knowledgeable about piano technique! Thank you for the opportunity to work together!
Hi piano lab....if I'm playing the left hand low down in the bass and the right hand high in the treble in a piece, simultaneously, what is the physical choreography vis a vis posture etc?
Very good question. My experience tells me that some adjustments are called for. Keeping 3 aligned behind elbow, not twisted wrist perpendicular to the keyboard. I also sit up higher and raise both wrists, depending on black/white keys played.
Once again, like in Mel Torme's "Christmas Song," "can't be said too many times, too many ways." Always reminder that the best, most natural, expressive and healthy piano technique is a coordinated interaction of all body parts, from the feet to the finger tips, each part doing what it does best for maximum results. Can't be over monitored until the movements become second nature. Watch Martha Argerich for a demo of the perfection of these same techniques. I might, in a sense say, "I'm also studying with Martha Argerich, by studying what she does," which is painfully simple because it is so consistent, though her tempi are unapproachable by mere mortals. Look where and how she sits, how she works forearms and hands with a wrist and knuckle bridge so strong they would hold up a hippo. Arm weight and all, allowing the smallest muscles, fingers to dangle, to dance to meet any musical demand, curved straight, vertical. She uses all the tools to perfectly render every riff. High wrist, using thumb under or sideways almost like another straight finger, lower but not broken wrist in certain passages which she has perfectly timed not to do too much of. She is the eventual product of what you guys are teaching. We should live so long. Good set.
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Watched the other channel for the first time. Nicely done. Thank you. Her demo of playing too much with just the fingers was excellent.
Dear my online piano teacher, thank you for your great collaboration with Practical Piano Tips' channel. I would like to tell you that both of your content are totally amazing! I hope you guys have a blessed day. Thank you for sharing us this knowledge that I have never known before. God bless🌻
You're very welcome as always!
Thank you for all your videos!! Appreciate them!
My pleasure!
Thank you so much for this video! It has been years since I’ve had piano lessons but I remember needing to play with less tension, but forgot how to make that happen. Your video brought back many memories and also some new concepts to me that I’m very excited to try. Hopefully I can play more relaxed soon! :D
Definitely going to check out the other channel you collabbed in this vid too 👍
Great Video! I came from Practical Piano Tips channel, thank you for doing the collaboration, learned a lot!
Awesome! Thank you!
Craig, it was great working with you! This video is exactly right! You are so knowledgeable about piano technique! Thank you for the opportunity to work together!
You're very kind. It was fun to work together!
Very nice. Good coverage of vitally important considerations.
Thanks for all your videos.
Glad you like them!
Hi piano lab....if I'm playing the left hand low down in the bass and the right hand high in the treble in a piece, simultaneously, what is the physical choreography vis a vis posture etc?
Very good question. My experience tells me that some adjustments are called for. Keeping 3 aligned behind elbow, not twisted wrist perpendicular to the keyboard. I also sit up higher and raise both wrists, depending on black/white keys played.
Once again, like in Mel Torme's "Christmas Song," "can't be said too many times, too many ways." Always reminder that the best, most natural, expressive and healthy piano technique is a coordinated interaction of all body parts, from the feet to the finger tips, each part doing what it does best for maximum results. Can't be over monitored until the movements become second nature. Watch Martha Argerich for a demo of the perfection of these same techniques. I might, in a sense say, "I'm also studying with Martha Argerich, by studying what she does," which is painfully simple because it is so consistent, though her tempi are unapproachable by mere mortals. Look where and how she sits, how she works forearms and hands with a wrist and knuckle bridge so strong they would hold up a hippo. Arm weight and all, allowing the smallest muscles, fingers to dangle, to dance to meet any musical demand, curved straight, vertical. She uses all the tools to perfectly render every riff. High wrist, using thumb under or sideways almost like another straight finger, lower but not broken wrist in certain passages which she has perfectly timed not to do too much of. She is the eventual product of what you guys are teaching. We should live so long. Good set.
Exelent explanation! Very helpful
Glad to hear that!
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Where is your nose compared to the keyboard?