Increasing Finger Strength for Piano Playing

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Summary: How to increase finger strength and control 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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"Hi I'm Tony for Expert Village now we are going to talk about finger technique. Finger technique is one of the most important aspects of playing the piano cause that is most of the control is okay there are several schools of thought but we would take this particular one that Beethoven and Chopin and DeBussy and other composers actually use. So the idea here is to give your fingers individual control and strength when you are playing let's take a 5 note scale from middle C. In this case we want to move each finger as high as possible and come down on the note now you can to start off you can feel what is feels like and hold the key like I'm doing cause that means that all 5 keys are down just so that you get some strength."

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