Correct Piano Hand Positioning

Video Transcript

"Okay, now we're going to talk about correct hand positions. How to correctly position your hands so that we don't have any problems with the wrists and make sure that we learn correctly how to sit at the piano and find a basic starting point, which for most piano players, the basic starting point is going to be finding middle C on the keyboard. And here, let me show you how to do that. Now after we found our correct seating position and we're sitting up straight and correct, now we're going to want to position our hands so that we're not bending at the wrist. Probably similar to something that you'd hear from typing, you probably don't want to have your hands in a bent wrist position this way. They're going to want to be up, probably not too high either. You just want to have a nice natural curve to your wrists. And then, to find middle C, and there's not really a specific way that I usually do this, what I usually think of as I'm sitting here, I'm looking at the center of the keyboard and I find the two notes in the middle that do not have a black key in the middle of it and then I just go down from there. There's two black keys that are here and I find the base of that. That note right there is middle C. Okay? And then you can, generally, you want to start with both of your thumbs right on middle C to find the hand position that you're going to start with to use for your basic starting point."