Learning piano for beginners can be a frustrating thing particularly if they have seen someone playing the piano and thought, how do they do that and make it look so easy? Well it can be easy if you use the correct piano techniques.
You might thing that great piano technique comes from building speed, or finger strength or independence of finger control. Or perhaps you thing they must have done hours and hours of gruelling scales practice. In these ways the piano for beginners can seem a daunting instrument to master.
The truth is great technique comes from the coordination of fingers, hands, arms and body, along with how your body and piano work together.
If you play the wrong way then you will find it harder than it needs to be and you will become frustrated with your progress. But studying the right way; rather than just practise, will result in you making quicker progress and enjoy what you are doing.
You must learn how to sit at your piano so that you do not have tension in your head, shoulders, arm and hands. If for example your shoulders start aching after playing for just a short period, then tension has built up because you are not sitting at you piano correctly.
When sitting at the piano the first rule of correct posture is to keep your back straight. Keep your head up in a comfortable position. Make sure your sheet music is in a position so you can read it with your head in its comfortable position.
Keep your shoulders and arms loose and relaxed. Your lower arms should be parallel with the height of the keys. There must be enough distance between your chair and the piano so that you can reach the pedals and keys comfortably.
The hands should be poised and free above the keys ready to play.
So remember learning piano for beginners is about having a great technique, which comes from the coordination of your body and how your body and piano work together.
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