Teaching Motor Skill & Finger Position for Piano to Children

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So, now we're going to talk about, how to get their fingers to move quickly, and efficiently, and not be flat, or some other incarnation of terrible, that they will try to pull off. So, um now that they have a reference for intervals, which is wonderful. Put them in any five-finger position, and make sure you do not stay with C, as we already discussed, and have them do a series of intervals. If my five fingers are in the key of, err, in G, so that means G is Do. Can I put a second, what are my seconds? Oh, here's a second. Here's a second. Here's a second. Encourage them to play loudly. Encourage them to play in two-note slurs, to find all the seconds. See if they can then find all the thirds. From here, and here. They'll notice that immediately. Here's where you add...no, there's one more third in the middle. Which is Re to Fa. Which is wonderful. They'll be like, oh yeah! I didn't even see that. So you were like enlightening them all the time. The fourths that are in the key of, in the one five-finger position, are from Do to Fa and from Re to Sol. See if you can get those loud. Push louder. Push harder. Like a really, really old, mean German woman who is rude to her suppliants. And, um, the fifth, there's only one fifth in any five-finger position. It's from the five to the one. But it's reinforcing what fingers are used for a fifth, which is really, really important. When you're dealing with technique like this, let's go back to things like sight singing, or things like oral training. So, you'd say play me Do-Re-Mi. What intervals did you use? Seconds. Play me Do-Mi. What intervals did you use? A third. Then see if you can sing it to them. La-la! And see if they can match it. All of those things that you have done before, now they have more information about what you were doing, and it makes it more exciting. And then, do some copy stuff. Just play this for me. And they'll copy it. And what you're doing, though they don't know it, is you're just strengthening their fingers. Those are little exercises, those are techniques exercises, which will probably appear in their technique books, but you want to just do over, and over, and over. And quickly change the position of it, so it's not in G now, it's in F. Now it's in C. Um, in those five-finger positions.

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