How do I learn piano making my hands work together?
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When learning piano one of the most difficult skills to master is making your hands work independently. Still this is a fundamental part of the pianists technique so we have to learn to master independence of hands at an early stage.
Some able adults will despair to their piano teacher that they feel they'll never master this skill, whereas many tiny tots seem to learn independent hands with no apparent problem. Let's face it, everyone's brain works slightly differently. Some are just wired naturally for piano playing and some are not.
There is no need for anyone to despair with piano lessons 'though. Just follow the advice below and you will find it easier to learn to play piano well. Sometimes you may feel you are getting nowhere but, although improvement may be slow it will still be there if you persevere.
Here are the three steps.
First, make sure that the piece you're attempting to play isn't too difficult. If you're trying to run before you can walk, you'll get nowhere fast! As adults, we all tend to look at first pieces in a book and think we can achieve something much harder.
With the piano keyboard your brain has to contend with many unfamiliar commands and learn new motor skills. When you think of the story of the hare and the tortoise you can realise that with playing the piano, slow and steady to the finishing line really is the best policy.
Secondly, make sure you can play each hand absolutely perfectly and you feel totally confident, so that someone very special walking in to the room wouldn't distract or put you off for a split second.
A powerful practice technique is to learn to play the left hand accompaniment whilst singing the melody of the right hand. This helps to train your hands to be independent of your conscious thoughts as well as helping you to hear how right and left hands fit together before you can actually play both.
Third, just take it slowly. I mean slow the tempo right down and play the piano notes regularly in tempo but slowly. You'll naturally have to play more slowly hands together than you do hands separately at first.
As soon as you start to put the hands together just cut your speed in half. Then be very precise. If you play too quickly to be accurate then you are actually learning to memorise these inaccuracies. You can always speed up when you are more proficient.
Follow this simple advice and you will quickly find you can learn piano well. For some it will happen easily and quickly. For others you may have to persevere but by taking your piano notes steadily without being impatient you will surely succeed in the end.
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Rachel Branston has designed a superb dvd course to teach piano keyboard to both young and older. Pick up her free piano lessons for beginners and find everything you need to know about piano music lessons at http://www.playyourpiano.com .
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