Arpeggio Exercises for the Piano
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Arpeggio Exercises for the Piano
Arpeggios make beautiful sounds and they are great for when we are improvising. They are great for when we are playing classical music and there is a lot of opportunities to play Arpeggios. Another thing that the Arpeggio helps us learn is how to feel comfortable leaping on the piano, because when we play a scale all of the notes are right next to each other. Our fingers don’t really have to go looking; they just play the next note in the sequence. When we are playing an Arpeggio our fingers have to spread out a little bit and even if we have big hands when we are playing many Octaves of the Arpeggio and especially if we are playing quickly we need to move very quickly and we don’t have time to shift our hands over in order to play the next note. So what we have to practice with Arpeggios is when we reach the last note with our thumb and we need to turn over to play the next note; we need to let go and leap a little bit. It’s not a big leap but by leaping you get used to picking up our hand and dropping on exactly the note we are looking for. And when we get comfortable doing that through warm-up exercises like Arpeggios we can find notes whenever we want to without having to look at them because our hand feels comfortable on the keyboard. So again, when I am playing the Arpeggios I don’t want to twist my wrist to play the next note when I reach the thumb I want to bring my hand over a little bit and just allow my hand’s natural movement as it moves to the next note to help guide me, my finger to it’s next position. So I make a slight leap. Here I was exaggerating but when you are practicing there will be a small pause when you are playing Arpeggios.
Arpeggios make beautiful sounds and they are great for when we are improvising. They are great for when we are playing classical music and there is a lot of opportunities to play Arpeggios. Another thing that the Arpeggio helps us learn is how to feel comfortable leaping on the piano, because when we play a scale all of the notes are right next to each other. Our fingers don’t really have to go looking; they just play the next note in the sequence. When we are playing an Arpeggio our fingers have to spread out a little bit and even if we have big hands when we are playing many Octaves of the Arpeggio and especially if we are playing quickly we need to move very quickly and we don’t have time to shift our hands over in order to play the next note. So what we have to practice with Arpeggios is when we reach the last note with our thumb and we need to turn over to play the next note; we need to let go and leap a little bit. It’s not a big leap but by leaping you get used to picking up our hand and dropping on exactly the note we are looking for. And when we get comfortable doing that through warm-up exercises like Arpeggios we can find notes whenever we want to without having to look at them because our hand feels comfortable on the keyboard. So again, when I am playing the Arpeggios I don’t want to twist my wrist to play the next note when I reach the thumb I want to bring my hand over a little bit and just allow my hand’s natural movement as it moves to the next note to help guide me, my finger to it’s next position. So I make a slight leap. Here I was exaggerating but when you are practicing there will be a small pause when you are playing Arpeggios.
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