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Posture & Body Position for Piano Playing
How to Position Hands & Arms to Play the Piano
Piano Finger Technique
Practicing Piano Finger Technique
Increasing Finger Strength for Piano Playing
Stretching Muscles for Piano Playing
Proper Wrist Position for Playing the Piano
Proper Posture for Playing the Piano
How to Breathe While Playing the Piano
How to Focus while Playing the Piano
Improving Your Piano Technique by Focusing
How to Practice the Piano
How to Harmonize on the Piano
Additional Techniques for Harmonizing on the Piano
How to Walk Up the Scale on a Piano
How to Train Your Ear for Harmonizing on the Piano
How to Play the 7 Scale Notes on the Piano
Examples of 7 Scale Notes on the Piano
How to Play Chromatic Tones on the Piano
How to Use Chromatic Tones on the Piano to Add Color to Your Playing
How to Use the Sustain Pedal on a Piano
How to Use the Bass Pedal on a Piano
How to Use the Soft Pedal on a Piano
How to Play the Piano with Emotion
How Your Emotions Reflect in Your Piano Playing
How to Compose Music on the Piano
How to Find Rhythm & Tempo for Piano Songwriting
How to Put Chords & Rhythm Together for Piano Songwriting
How to Play Melody on the Piano
How to Harmonize Melodies on the Piano
Summary: How to stretch the muscles in your hand to develop 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.
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
"Okay now let's do it with each individual note up and down. First go really slow like this up as high as you can, down, up, down, up, up, now what I'm doing is stretching these muscles when I go up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up. Okay so you start going up, start going down. Remember this ancient when you do the first one it is not like this okay so then there is several touches this is the staccato touch with connects one note after the other. You can even think of it as smooth playing and this is more detached and staccato. Okay those are the two main one's. And that is finger technique. "
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