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Beginners tend not to think about being in balance and end up being misaligned, which can causes unevenness and even injury. Today we are going to discuss balance using Debussy’s Arabesque No.1 as an example. You can also see some cool hand position tracking in the video.
Instructor: Matthew Soeghay
Debussy – Favorite Piano Works;
Piano: Casio Celviano Grand Hybrid GP-510; (Casio piano:
Alfred’s Basic Adult All-in-One Course, Book 1;
Alfred’s Group Piano for Adults, Book 1 (2nd Edition);
Adult Piano Adventures All-in-One Piano Course Book 1;
Check out more performance and tutorials from Matthew Soeghay:
– Piano technique: how to play fast, avoid Rushing;
– Piano technique: Chopin Fantaisie Impromptu Op. 66;
– Piano technique: Debussy Arabesque No.1;
– Piano technique: play with balance;
– Piano technique: prepare fingers;
– Masterwork for Beginners – Schumann Album for the Young;
– Piano technique: how to fix “Lazy Fingers”;
– Three levels of piano scales exercise – beginner, intermediate and advanced levels;
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:46 Debussy’s Arabesque
03:43 Body balance
05:10 Hand balance
07:41 Good vs bad demos
08:37 Practicing strategy
11:05 Summary
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Your tips are truly invaluable. I've been practicing lifting my fingers after playing each note slowly and it's given my Mozart Sonata an evenness and clarity that was missing. I mean, it's really noticeable. Not a lot of teachers seem to have the knack for isolating and explaining the mechanics the way you do. Your camera angles are very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks, my friend. I'm learning piano self taught, and there is a surprising lack of content about these fundamentals. Every video I find is people teaching songs, or tricks, or music theory in half an hour, because probably most people look for it. But these fundamentals are very important.
If you have recommendation of more content (books, other youtube channel, online courses, etc), I would apreciate!
One of the things I have discovered about lifting my fingers after I play the notes is that it helps keep my arm weight balanced on the key that's being depressed and that helps ensure that I'm depressing only the key that's supposed to be depressed and not inadvertently holding down the key that was played just before it. Lifting the fingers helps ensure that I'm playing only one note at a time and that really pays off when executing fast, delicate turns such as in the Chopin Waltz Op 69 No 1 measure 21 where the turn occurs and there are 13 notes that have to be played quickly and smoothly. Until I started lifting my fingers I was blurring these notes. I discovered that I was resting on one key while playing the next key so that when I was playing fast I was actually holding down two keys without realizing it and that was slowing me down and creating the blur. When I started lifting each finger after playing the notes my arm weight was balanced on one finger instead of two and soon the clarity and softness of the grace notes in the turn began to surface. I didn't realize that I was holding down more than one key at a time until I began exploring the idea of lifting my finger after I played the note making sure that it was always only one finger supporting my arm weight. Well, not my full arm weight because then I wouldn't be able to play properly. I sure value this tip from Piano Teaching Pros. Thank you so much.
The tracking looks sleek! How was that done?!🤔