Posture & Body Position for Piano Playing

Series Summary

The piano is easily one of the most recognizable musical instruments in the world. Since the early 18th century, musicians have used the piano to compose a myriad of musical compositions. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn all created sublime masterpieces for the piano. Creating music on the piano is a challenging and rewarding endeavor, given the incredible octave range of the piano and dynamic adjustment (rendered by the sensitivity of the piano keys) Whether you have just begun to play the piano or you are an intermediate student, our expert piano instructor and professional musician Tony Newton can help you develop your piano playing skills.

In this free online video series, learn how to play the piano from expert piano player and professional musician Tony Newton. Tony will teach you basic piano lessons such as proper posture and correct hand positions for the piano. Developing nimble fingers is paramount for great piano playing. Our expert piano player will show you how to practice correct finger techniques to enhance your manual dexterity and facilitate muscle memory. However, this series is not solely for beginners. You can learn more advanced piano techniques such as how to harmonize on the piano, how to play the 7 scale notes on a piano, how to use piano pedals, how to play chromatic tones. Learn also how to play melodies and harmonize with melodies, and how to compose your own music on the piano.

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Tony Newton and we are going to talk about the piano here the piano is one of the greatest tools in instruments that the human being if you want to call them that can use to experience a great amount of joy and creative and imagination. So let's dig right into it and here we go. Hi I'm Tony Newton and on behalf of Expert Village and we are going to approach playing the piano and this would deal with correct body and hand position okay here we go. You want to make sure that you can sit at the piano and slouch over but you don't want to be to close so that you can't move and you don't want to be to far back. Now basically you want to try and sit with your spine erect because it would make it easier for breathing and playing and using your whole body to/for expression. Now just to show you what I mean as like I'm just going to play a simple chord and you will see my position. So that way you can get up and down on the keyboard you can move and you have perfect motion to get anywhere and use it for expression. "