How my teacher reworked my piano technique

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[cupy]

Excellent video - really appreciated the last part where you talked about minimising movements and letting the fingers work! Great way to re-work your technique! And that’s exactly how I would teach too 👏🏻

[ken]

2 years of playing piano but I still can't get over how to play without having my fingers and hand stiff..

[robinpetersson]

I have played for several years and just got a new proper classical piano instructor and she is spending so much time with me trying to relax me. And oddly I am starting to realize I am tense with a lot of things that I do in life, clenching my jaw, stiffening my neck, etc. I am actually quite happy to have started to realize that.

[a.elsagonzalez]

I'm a piano teacher and I approve this message! 😍

[mateuszkozieja]

As I'm hearing this I'm so glad that after being self taught for a year my teacher told me that mostly my technique was alright just not polished enough😅

[gentlewhalepiano]

As a classical pianist studying performance, I have to say your technique now looks very healthy and wonderful, I'm glad your teacher was able to make your playing more fluid and relaxed looks wonderful!

[musicsdarkangel]

Thank you for answering! Imagine the surprise when I came to watch and saw my screen name in the video 😄 She sounds like a great teacher. I’m currently reworking my technique using gravity free falls (drops). Thanks again!

[CCoreOW]

I mean, that's great, if you can find and afford a teacher who knows what they're talking about. I've been teaching myself for about 8 months now, and I'm pretty sure outside of my curved fingers, my technique isn't great. But outside of just getting a teacher to tell me how and why it isn't, I don't know how else to try and work on it. I do want to get a teacher, but living in a rural area, there's only so many available. I contacted all the ones I could, and they either didn't have any spaces or were too expensive. All this video does is tell me that I should just be more relaxed, but it doesn't tell me how to work on and improve that.

[stefflo]

Omg like two years of practice in one short! Thanks for sharing ❤ super insighful, especially with the addendum in the end

[alyaa]

This is very useful for people who learn without teacher. Thank you for sharing

[DavidMiller-bpet]

Saw this a couple years ago. Bears repeating to remind us self checks to assure we are in the right groove. Best possible support with good posture, proper sense of "relaxation, " then onto various finer movements. Lots to consider, takes a while to integrate it all, but focus on individual elements has great value.

[syvirndmagno]

I'm 14 and I've played the piano for 1.6 years and I still didn't know about this technique. Thanks so much

[shannoncastaneda]

The Chopin technique is without a doubt the best technique for playing piano, and as a pianist, you and your teacher get a gold seal of approval for learning it 😄

[chrisc]

When I started taking lessons. I asked to focus on rhythm exercises and technique because I knew that's what I would benefit the most from in person lessons.... We did neither 🤷‍♂️

I'm teaching myself. But I have taken in a lot of information about how to relax and improve technique and I practice scales and arpeggios to refine my technique.

[Bananaman]

I completely forgot this stuff since I haven’t had professional teaching in years and I stopped playing for a bit. This helped so much

[moonwalktomind]

As a student who learns at home by youtube, this is the most difficult skill to learn. In small movements my fingers are ok but when I try fast and big movement, my fingers look awkward. I hope I will be better by practicing. (I play piano for 3 years and yeah i need a teacher i guess but can’t effort it so 😅)

[Aleksandr_Skrjabin]

Fellow commenters, reason why to take a teacher.

*1.* Beacause its not about being able to play a piece, but about how to play it.

*2.* Finger settings are important, they have numbers from 1 to 5 on pieces for a reason. (sometimes)

*3.* Beacause the teacher gives u pieces u dont like to play, but will help u being able to play more on the right way.

*4.* He gives u a goal to reach for the next time he comes back again, and he might tells u some history about the Composer or its piece.

[ShanikHughes]

Can you please teach us those exercises she taught you? Thank you for this video!

[AL-puux]

For anyone who’s done this, his description is very accurate. It is hard work all around but so worth it.

[DavidMiller-bpet]

Quite valuable, bringing it together, again....

You have helped me rework my technique in just a few months, but again, I really work at your specific considerations. Though about 10-15 years at the keyboard, I started over as a beginner and it came really fast. That's because I started SLOW.

Leaving today for Tacoma where my kids live, near UPS.