Stretching Muscles for Piano Playing

Part of the Video Series How to Play the Piano

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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.

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Stretching Muscles for Piano Playing
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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Expert: Tony Newton is a world renowned musician who began his professional career on the piano at the tender age of thirteen & has performed on over 25 million selling Gold recordings. Read More