In order to learn how to play the piano, you must undergo special training to learn how to play correctly and develop your hearing.
- Sight-reading skills require proper sitting and correctly placed hands so that playing even simple notes with incorrect movements does not bring inconvenience and discomfort. Your wrists will be pinched, and your back will constantly tire from the load.
- It is necessary to select the height of the chair based on the forearms of the hands lying on the keys of the instrument. Keep your elbows in front of you to avoid hitting your ribs during play. The back is only straight so that there is a good view of the keyboard. Even slight flexion of the back can lead to stiff arm movement. The shoulders should be lowered and relaxed.
- There is a common numbering for the fingers in piano playing. The thumb is numbered one and the pinky is numbered five. Such numbers can be seen in the notes, they are written above or below the notes. With the help of these numbers, composers or editors teach how to play the piano - they learn to quickly and easily parse all the notes, and not to pick up comfortable fingers in difficult moments.
- The hand on the keyboard should lie as follows: the three middle fingers are positioned on the three adjacent black keys, and the first and fifth fingers are placed on the white keys. You should not use black keys only at their edges, your fingers are much deeper. The fingers to be placed on the white keys stick as close to the edges of the black keys as possible. It is not necessary to lower the joint of the hand, the hand should maintain only the correct shape.
- When you rotate the wrist joint without moving your fingers on the keys, make small circles around the original position, but you should feel the same pressure on your fingertips. The shoulder remains relaxed, not raised, and the elbow is kept loose.
- Developing hearing and singing with intonation will help you master the skills of finding and composing your own tunes.
- To start learning to play popular music and jazz piano, you should go through two or three classical pieces. Learning to play jazz pieces and adaptations of popular songs from scratch will be very difficult, because the lyrics in these pieces are always heavy. The correct positioning of hands, basic knowledge of complex plays is given during training not to everyone.
Therefore, before you start learning sight-reading, listening, improvising, playing pop music and jazz, you need to take an initial course of study and master the basic skills and knowledge.
