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How to Prepare Your Body for Singing
How to Do Vocal Exercises
How to Project Your Voice
How to Prepare for a Singing Performance
How to Overcome Stage Fright
How to Practice Piano
How to Position Yourself at the Piano
How to Learn Piano Fingering
How to Learn to Read Music
How to Use a Metronome
How to Play Music by Ear
How to Find a Piano Teacher
How to Improve Your Songwriting Skills
How to Start Singing
How to Write a Song
How to Learn to Play Piano
How to Learn Scales on the Piano
How to Sing in Tune
How to Memorize a Song
How to Start a Career as a Singer/Songwriter
How to Clean Piano Keys
How to Play Piano (Chord Style) - Lesson 1 - Notes
How to Become a Lyric Writer
How to Sing Falsetto
How to Read Piano Music
How to Learn Bass Clef Notes
How to Increase Vocal Range
How to Read Music (The Notes)
How to Have a Better Singing Voice
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Summary: Learning piano fingering is simple when the hands are relaxed and in a natural position. Learn piano fingering with tips from a pianist, singer and songwriter in this free video on musical tips.
Tom Kenaston is a pianist, singer, songwriter, theatrical performer and vocal coach with more than 25 years of professional experience. He has taught and performed in New York City and...read more
"Hi, this is Tom Kenaston. I'm a singer, songwriter, pianist, living in West Palm Beach, and also New York. This clip is going to be about how to learn piano fingering. The first thing that you need to know is you have, hopefully, five fingers. The fingers in piano music would be called, starting with the thumb, one, two, three, four, five. Very easy. The main thing about piano fingering, some music, as you look at it, as you learn to read music and you look at it, they'll actually write fingering in. They'll say, for instance, on this F in this section of the music, you want to play it with your first finger, with one. Which is not first finger, it's the thumb. Remember, the thumb is always one. Don't think of first finger, second finger, one, two. It's always one here. So, you would play the F with the one. Then they might say play the A with the three. So then you're going to go to your third finger. And then they might say play the C with your fifth finger, or with the five, sorry, which would be this one. Generally, as you're looking at music and or deciding to finger, you know, come up with your own fingering on the piano, the key is to keep your hand in the natural position. It would be awkward if I were to play the F with my one, and then the G with my five. Then your hand's going to tense up and be silly looking. The point is you want to keep your hand natural, and if you're fingering through these chords, pretty just, pretty much want it to lay naturally. And then as your hand needs to stretch, you generally always want to do that, keep it looking natural, one, two, three, four, five. This is Tom Kenaston. This has been how to learn piano fingering."
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