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Practicing Piano Finger Technique

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Summary: How to practice finger techniques for playing the piano; learn this and more in this free online piano lesson series taught by expert pianist and professional musician Tony Newton.

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A professional musician and bassist since the 1960s, Tony Newton has been hailed as a "super genius [who] will go down in history as one of the most vital path-forgers of our era” by...read more

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"Okay if we take we go to the next finger now you can practice without moving your wrist. I prefer to move the wrist which we where thought more about ya that is how you get that if we use them both together. Okay now this one now that is what we call a finger position now if we that is for a scale that is a 1,2,3,1,2,3,4,5. Now of course there is much more scales and we would get into that but this is the first thing for building your fingers fret which is absolutely necessary. Remember when you practice do not practice really light like this make your fingers work. Push very hard and solid for each key and what that does is develop your own unique tone that you would eventually develop so when you touch your keys your individual expression will come to those notes."

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