Piano Fingering Explained: How to Finger Piano Pieces - a Tutorial and Example
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ย. 2024
- In this piano tutorial I will show you how to choose the fingering of a particular piano piece: Bach's Invention no. 8. You can follow along even if you can't read sheet music, because I'll break down the different parts slowly and you can follow my fingers on screen. I will explain my fingering choices and how you should approach a new piano piece.
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00:00 *Introduction*
01:20 *Playing Bach's Invention #8 | Right Hand*
01:48 *General Tips for Fingering Musical Passages*
06:55 *Breaking Down Bach's Invention #8*
Awesome, thanks for doing this. You got yourself pinned.
06:04 A bit of tea #ReallyImportantToo
Cat meow at 01:02
As a beginner this is exactly what I needed thanks a million.
For reallll
Fingering lesson is almost non existent in whole TH-cam. Thanks for detailed lesson. We need to find the fingering acc to our convenience.
You're very welcome.
You are the best teacher it’s like you know exactly what I need
Awesome!
I'm relatively new to playing "actual piano" (ignore that I had several years of lessons, including needing to pass a college course - the most I got out of it was learning that the thumb should rarely if ever play black keys). I started teaching little ones basic piano, and because of THAT, I finally felt competent enough to try a sonatina or two. I've been wondering about fingering and what's "right" or wrong, and your use of the word "pivot" is really important, also everything else you said. This was an awesome lesson, tea included. Thank you for taking the time to explain exactly as you did. I love that you called it a puzzle. This makes piano playing much more fun and interesting, and I feel far more capable than before.
Thanks for sharing that, Melissa, and good luck in figuring (fingering?) out future pieces :)
9:13 was a real eye-opener for me. (Thank you kindly, MangoldProject!
Had it on full volume and my mum heard the intro
Surely you could explain to her you're just trying to figure out how to finger A minor.
@@MangoldProject LMAOOOOO
Lol
@@MangoldProject Holy shit I did not expect that lol.
Hahaha
Thank you so much for these lessons. You have a great way of explaining the concepts so we get the basics and can also delve deeper as we advance. Your work is very much appreciated!
So am I right thinking each piece is basically a new challenge? It's like walking down a tiled corridor where you can only step on certain tiles. What happens if you accidentally deviate from the fingering? How can you get back on track without it affecting your performance? As a beginner I find this perplexing.
thank you! I'm still a beginner and these all sounds confusing. but i'll get there eventually :)
Slowly but surely.
Thank you for the great video (as always)! Finally a fingering video that goes through a real example instead of talking about the "usual general stuff". I am very glad that you explain the hand squeezing technique here (as you call it) as I have been using it myself intuitively for a while as a beginner and was wondering if it was bad practice or not. It was great to hear: "Don't overthink the fingering, if it feels comfortable it is probably OK but do spend some time experimenting" and "often times there is more than one correct solution (fingering)". It would be awesome if you did more videos like this on fingering with other tips you can think of. For example two more that come to my mind now: repeating a note with different fingers and changing fingers on the same note.
I heard a meow somewhere in 1:04-1:05 if I'm not mistaken and I think that's cute.
Anyway, thanks for the tip! It really helped a lot
Thank you so much for this video. I was struggling with finger placements and your video has helped me immensely. 😊👍🏻
I have to tell you that your video was incredibly helpful to me. I have played the trumpet for years but have recently taken up the piano accordeon.
I just could not work out where to position my hands to avoid 'running out of fingers' ans getting my hand all knotted up. This has helped me so much and I am very pleased that you took the time to make the video. Thank you. ❤
Thanks for the video! As a piano teacher and accompanist, I know fingering is so important! But this is one of those things that students will too often completely skip over.
Can you tell me what is the best way so our both hand fingers don't get stuck, especially the black key.
Best video on finger placement
Thank you for going over the fingering slowly and in an organized manner. I used the G. Henle Verlag edition and there fingering differed from yours in a few spots. What amazed me is that your finger is much easier to execute for it falls gently under the hand. Thank you.
Thanks for the effort. It helped me to understand the fingering principle.
You're welcome, Don.
Im running out of adjective. You are just awesome. Thank you Sir.
Very helpful tips, thank you. Godbless you
For beginner do I need weighted keyboard ND 88 keys?
Thank you for this introduction to the correct fingering on a keyboard. I have just started to learn the instrument being a bassist on all other sites they talking about everything else and rushing the fingering as if they were performing on stage and not trying to demonstrate to a beginner. Please keep up the good work that you are doing, much appreciated
Your channel is actually GOLD. Thanks!
This is a very good tip in playing piano
I like playing piano as well
Assuming that you dont memorize the music piece, this means that your eyes are fixed on music notes while playing and you dont look at the piano. How would you know at which notes are your fingers at one point of time when you move your fingers so freely? I really dont know the answer and im not sure if this a skill which i can develop with the time.
But you DO end up memorizing the music piece by practicing it over and over.
To do so, you break it down into 1 bar or 2 bar chunks and work on them independently, and then string them all together.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
6:50 I wud rather pivot at A or B to keep direction change smooth and easier than at next C .. If I have to include B before returning. If u pivot at C returning back is lil cumbersome or inefficient I guess then if u thumb tuck at A or even B. U have momentum of other fingers there which u dont have at extreme end direction change. It will even and make whole chunk progression smooth if u do it in middle or lil before. U can also pivot with 4th in first round too if u like. No manual says when u playing a C scale piece u must pivot at F I guess why not G instead?. 😀
I mean there are lot of ways to handle particular chunk. And with chunk I mean a piece with straight span without turn.
And mostly u play smaller size chunks than this in real song. So u can also adjust fingers at end points. Where u change direction otherwise thumb the only option that can help u do achieve it I guess u cant increase fingers with finger adjustment once u already into some chunk. Only at end points or direction change points I guess. Or if u have some repeat note in between where u can switch to other finger in repeat. And sheet music helps u lot in noticing direction change points. But u can do the same with experience too. And after all u set fingering first before playing... so already aware of them. But sheet music can let u figure them out on the fly too along with chunk length I guess... But all that said I dunno how to play with sheet music. But seen many ppl playing with it and all this info is obvious in that. That much I know. I mean I can read them a bit just cant keep the tempo or play along as I read ..or even know every lil tit bit about them. Ornamental things and all I mean.
If you're lost the best thing would be to do two things:
1. Get a real world teacher, even if it's only for 2-3 lessons.
2. Get a good book with (easy) classical pieces - say, beginner Bach or Mozart, with fingerings. As you work through it , you will come across most fingering problems and solutions, which will greatly enhance your understanding of the topic.
@@MangoldProject Yeah u are right .. but as i say fingering is least issue for me. I have already dealt most about it in detail when trying play different alankars here as we call it here in Indian system.
Okay ..I will try that hanon ..lets say 1st one in umm..C# can we? .. okay I will send u my fingering about it across two octaves. That will be enough I guess. Rest will be repeats. U can advice me if I did anything wrong. May not be the best ever solution but wont be bad one at least that much I can assure you. 😀
But problem here is accuracy and that set target of clean 4 notes at 120 bpm by end of this year as I said. And then there is so much to cover. Coordination, chords, arpeggios, octave play, trills, And then I am into Keyboard rather than piano.. so particular instrument playing. But anycase fingering or even song notes least concern me. I can do with my ears okay if not awesome. Then I want to play bollywood or indian filmy music. So target lil different.
And really honestly speaking I never new that a simple hobby thing will become so hard to achieve. From distance or normal level everything seems so easy. But when u try master something be it any instrument or anything.... its different ball game. I mean fingers started aching yaar and still not any close to my target. 😂
I mean I can do around 300 straight bpm with both hands. But scales doesn't mean u can do every kinda pattern on that scale at that tempo. And then from some days I have finally started working on chords, arpeggios and coordinating both hands. So its new problem. 😀 Lets see how we perform in that. Gods help me! 😂
Anyway yours a good video about the subject and I sincerly appreciate your efforts here. 👍🙏
Awesome! I’ve been trying to play every song starting with my thumb on middle c. When I start elsewhere it is easier. Glad to know that I’m not weird or doing it wrong. Those videos that are like guitar hero have been great for a different type of visual. When I’m stuck on sheet music I go check those out and play along. Then it makes more sense. Those really help “solve the puzzle “ as you put it.
But how to placement fingers when you play something by first time. There must be some rule.? You don't have time to think.Can you explane it thank you?
From what I've seen you learn a lot of songs and pieces with the correct fingering from tutorials, over time you'll develop a natural sense on where to place your fingers. You should be able to switch easily. Also try practicing scales and arpeggios. I'm no expert just my take on it :)
Thank you for the wonderfull tutorial
You are an amazing teacher.
Thanks .. I have been struggling with the thought that there was some sort of hard and fast rule about this and somehow I'd missed it..
There are some hard rules which I point out in the video, but there is also more flexibility than some people think.
I've since found a number of teachers here that say this.. It makes sense but when you are pretty much self taught as I am, as I said previously ,you think you possibly missed something.. Thanks for reply.. I play other instruments. Piano is terrifically linear in relation to theory as well as highly enjoyable and useful..
Thank you my piano friend for a great channel and for sharing your thought process in this clip as I am one of those people in a "pickle" constantly running out of fingers.
Very useful video. Thank You. Thanks once again. Very effective information especially the one on "pivot".
That's exactly what i am looking for! Thank you so much it's very helpful
What do you think of this fingering for chromatic scales ? Right hand ascending starting on C: 123451234545 and repeat; right hand descending same fingering - if starting on C 1545432154321. Left hand ascending starting on C is 543215432121 repeat; descending (starting on C) 5121234512345 repeat. What I like about it is A) there are only 3 hand positions per octave (2 moves) as compared to anything with a traditional thumb tuck involving at least 4 positions, 3 thumb tucks per octave, if you want to use the same fingering on every octave and not a 2 octave pattern before repeating; B) you can use the same fingering on every octave; C) when striking with a given finger on the left hand there is a single unique corresponding finger in the right hand - for example left thumb is always right pinky. The obvious disadvantage is that you can’t do a legato thumb tuck as with classical fingering. You need to jump the hand instead. Unless I do each way for years I can’t tell which approach is better. I’m very comfortable with the 1234545 fingering in right hand ascending, so I think it’s mostly a question of whether I can eventually get the hand jumps to the new thumb positions to be quick and seamless and not lead to uneven accent. If you think this is a bad idea, what fingering do you use for chromatic scales, or does it vary?
Ok I just found what I was looking for!
Well explained!💯💯
Glad it helped!
Vidéo très intéressante.Excellente idée d expliquer comment choisir le doigté idéal.
Exact !
Helped me alot !
Thank you teacher 😊. I'm just starting to study piano.
Welcome to a life-long journey!
Thank you very much for such great lesson,much greatful
Did I ever say you are a great teacher? I meant awesome. Thank you sir.
Why, thank you Philippe.
Perfect educational video!
Thank you for this lesson.
I'm a beginner of beginners in music. I know nothing about sheet music. I've downloaded the PDF you recommended but I can't use it. Please, help me. Thank you.
Thanks. Much Appreciated.
Very helpful thanks so much for this
Glad it was helpful!
It is really amazing, that such a professional piano tutor like you, is offering his services for free. Thank you very much for all your effort and another great tutorial. Regarding fingering I have one question. Would you recommend to use different fingers for playing the same note twice, e.g. Canon in D measure 62ff. Thanks for your advice in advance and looking forward to seeing more of your outstanding TH-cams.
Very very good! thank you so much.
I just have one question:
in writing or singing, everyone has their own style. Is it like that with fingering? The fingering of a person varies from person to person?
There can be some variations, but there are also "good practices" and hard don't-dos.
So useful. Thank you
Thank you sir for teaching it properly..
Thank you very much sir
I searched up "fingering tutorial" but once I saw the results I quickly wrote "Piano fingering tutorial" instead......
For example, if i want to finger a C Lydian scale, it´s quite difficult to reach the F# with the finger 1, how to manage between white and black keys depending of the scale?!
Thank Sudheer sir for leading me to this video
OMG THANNNNNKKK YOU IVE BEEN HAVING AN ARGUMENT WITH MY MOM ABOUT FINGERING!!!
I hope we're talking about piano here.
Wha-
@@VintageKeys not what i meant 😓
Thanks
Very helpful thank u 🙏
Do this for feux follets please
one huge Thank You!
I can't thank you enough, but still, I can't just leave, thanks a lot.
Namasthe Sir,
A good tutorial.Thanking you.
Namasthe. 🙏 🍁 🌹
Nice
Merci for this.
Good programme
This is very helpful for single line passages BUT for pop or jazz there is often a harmony half note on the chord changes (in addition to single line passage) so one finger has to be planted which rules out pivoting.?
used to play Viola and it seems odd to me to deviate so strongly from the standard fingerings. Is that how they teach it in school or rather what turned out to work the best for you personally?
This guys sounds like Rin from FFX. Thanks! Great tutorial!
You're welcome.
Very tutorial, your good
Wats best way learn I learned notes long time ago no been ble improve
My 30 year old female teacher taught me this flawlessly
Nice your tutorial
Good lesson but what about the left hand ????
Thank you so much ❤
You're welcome
great
Thank you!
So the general rules are :
Don't jump
Reduce no of pivots
Right ?
Would this be a good beginner exercise for both hands individually and together?
Sure. But also look at my 14 exercises for beginners video:
th-cam.com/video/KJMkdOTDXrc/w-d-xo.html
I have been looking so long for a video about fingering in polyphonic piano pieces, such as Bach's fugues in several voices. I thought I had found it here but alas it was only about two voices. :( Great video nonetheless!
Thanks! Videos which are very advanced and technical end up interesting only a very very small group of people, so I don't often do them. But I'll keep your wish in mind. Any particular piece that you find challenging?
@@MangoldProject Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I can understand that. What I have been looking for is some sort of general principle for fingering when playing two voices in one hand. It's easy to run out of fingers hehe.
If you would like to do a video on this topic I'd be happy, and surely others as well, because you're very good at explaining things and there really seems to be no video on this topic out there on TH-cam.
For an educational example I could recommend the Contrapunctus 1 from Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge. I think that piece is advanced enough to highlight the principles, yet simple enough to not get lost in ornamentation, runs in sixteenth notes, etc.
Many thanks from Sweden.
What software did you use to get those ledger lines on the top left that update live as you play? I was thinking musescore but I don't think musescore shows live updates on the ledger lines like that.
ChordieApp.
Fingering numbers should always be printed on sheet music to help everybody.
My wrist and my right index finger hurts when I play.is my posture wrong?How to play without having pain in my fingers
Not sure what to say. If something causes you pain, stop. Try doing other things. If the pain persists, consult a medical professional and a piano teacher, too.
I like the way you say Bach.
It has a Vocal Slur.
You gotta hock the ach.
Thanku sir
Wow!😲🤩🤗
what software do you use, where you get real time notes on staff as you press each piano keys?
ChordieApp.
@@MangoldProject thank you
I just use whatever works. Dor Bach I do have to plan in advance though
All I hear is I can't play a piece on first try because I might not place my fingers correct?
Yes.
@@MangoldProject I wasnt prepared this :(
Arabesque 1 please 🙏
Finguering in the score
I love your lesson. Your slight Cantonese accent is super cool.
Mangold is a German surname. Not sure what ethnicity Mr. MangoldProject is!
I'm Israeli :)
@@MangoldProject my bad. You are a good teacher.
Don't worry about it, and have fun roaming the channel.
I heard just meooooww❤️🥰
Should I trim my nails before fingering?
Usually a good idea.
How can i practice independence?
Try this:
th-cam.com/video/mpIhNCO-drM/w-d-xo.html
So for every musical piece you have to follow the correct scale pattern fingering ?
Not necessarily. I use the scales and pivoting techniques as a good basis for fingering all pieces. Each piece however has different challenges and you may need to be inventive with your fingering but always try to use scale fingering to begin with.
Mid video I understood it was made for advanced players... As a beginner, if I had to understand that, I would just quit learning, hahaha. I'll see if Gemini easy my mind about piano fingering.
Thanks for the video master Assaf
Btw I'm in an urge to contact you regarding permission of using one of your music pieces in a demonstration I'm making. Can I have your email please?
If it's a non-profit demonstration, just acknowledge my contribution and go ahead and use it.
@@MangoldProject Hello bro, no it's not.. Here's my email so you can reach me please:
saif.sameer at me.com
and happy belated Passover bro
6:05 lol, thanks for the video though!
Do you play teach request?
I'm pretty sure the terminology came from the piano first so don't go around calling it a "rude" title. Also, grow up.
_to the weird viewers_
It's a good thing I didn't explain how to finger a minor!
@@MangoldProject lol
TH-cam has brought the worst feature of adding english subtitles unnecessarily.. Make diificult to watch video clearly