Unlock the Secret of Perfect Piano Playing: Hand Stability

[@sebastian.pianiste]

It'd be nice to get a video on whats it like to be a classical concert pianist, and how youre able to deal with and manage the repetoire for all of the recitals

[@michaellaabdo.6499]

Oh yeah please! That would be great !

[@heartofthekeys]

Whaaaaats Uuuuuuuuup guys! I am so excited for my debut in London! Looking forward to see many of you there! Tickets and info here: www.rcm.ac.uk/events/chooseseats/?WebInstanceId=3187462

[@sebastian.pianiste]

Hii, greetings form México, I truly think your content is pretty much the best of classical music content everrr.

[@polleels]

Yes and grzegorz niemczuck is one of a kind to. Letteraly did all chopin piano pieces in 1 and a half year(all interesting). This guy is a legend. To. Annique is a verry good bridge to like classical music I think, and also gives amazing advice.

[@mistyrain83]

Thank you. I am a self-taught piano enthusiast of thirty years and play a lot of Chopin. A few months ago my pianist friend watched me play and told me that I have a big problem with my hands - the same problem you talk about in this video - and that if I could improve it, then the level of playing would improve a lot. I realized the problem, but didn't have a good solution. That's when your lesson came in time, thank you for your video, it was so helpful.THANK YOU ！

[@velcroman11]

I felt really good when she said it took her a year to get this exercise inti her hands and fingers. So many YT piano teachers never, ever give any idea how long it might take to “get it”.

[@Loudstork]

Danke, dass du diese übungen mit uns teilst. Hab erst sei nem jahr mit den Klavierspielen angefangen und diese Übungen helfen so sehr! Vor allem weil ich starke Probleme mit meiner Handhaltung habe.

[@sacrilegiousboi978]

I always had poor piano technique growing up as well as accuracy problems because my disproportionately small and flat hand in comparison to my long, thin and hyper mobile fingers don’t naturally gravitate towards this stable position so I was bending and contorting my fingers whilst my wrist was often very low. Working to adopt this stable position has dramatically improved my speed and accuracy especially in more challenging pieces, although I still feel like I have to constantly and manually enforce this position otherwise my hand will automatically revert back to old habits.

[@granturismo6774]

You are beautifully in tune with Music so we can all be too - thanks for everything xx*

[@Tautropfenoase]

Fantastic Exercises, please more of this and thank you so much.❤

[@pianobananahousemadeira]

Why do I not life in London 😢 As one comment mentions it would be intresting to tell us more about your journey/life as a classical pianist. Must be amazing but hard (well as every profession is). Wish you all the best in 2025

[@brandonscott3012]

Thanks for tips! Im new to piano, this is the kind of info i definitely need. Gotta build good habits early :)

[@sychg3448]

Very helpful , thanks

[@larghedoggo9607]

I am also a selftaught who likes ramantic classical pieces. It really takes time even I have awareness of my technic not being stable since beginning. I started to realize how important is understanding each fingers' role and how different they are in anatomical way.(like Chopin's idea) It also has something to do with our hand size, for example I always had problam with my thumb stability while playing big chords. I discovered the weight center is not actually in the middle since our hands are not symmetrical. I need to give little more attenthing to the thumb side(shifting without making more tension) and my 5th finger also used to stay flat in 50% of time. Since learning op10no4 from Chopin, I start to see a loooot stuff and look back for my technic. I just realized my snall hand size(maximun 9th while playing very bottom of key), is not a good hand for modern piano. But for octave aspect, thumb stability is bit more important than 5th finger, so I have to compromise sometimes when I have to play big chords with 2 or 3 notes within especially they are shifting in left center. Also when the note is not combine, I have no excuse but to make every fingers stable(especially for 5th finger to light up the biggest melody line in chromatic feature) Also with weakest finger, our 4 th finger, we need some cooperation with 3rd or 5th or even wrist sometimes to not go against our natural physics. Transition or connecting weight center on 2nd and 3rd. It really takes times to realize all those details but worth it

[@matteogarzetti]

Complimenti!

[@jameshasbeenjammin]

This was a really helpful video. Thank you

[@fatmathepianist]

Yess it was so helpful please keep this piano technique videos. We need your masterclasses🙃🤍

[@Dan-sc7us]

Wow, you're a fiery redhead! Love the hair! You look fantastic!

[@coleptera180]

I think it’s just high saturation, her natural hair is dark red, but here emphasised due to light and saturation

[@davidrboland]

Jesus. A beautiful, talented redhead with a hint of an Asian look. There is a God.

[@lepetitquichotte]

Thank you!!!

[@boyleiidea]

Thank you so much! I've learned so much from you!

[@MichelGuk]

Hiii from Quebec

[@piano_and_bouldering]

Danke für die Übung! Ich habe meine Technik sehr verbessert, aber totale Probleme mit dem rechten kleinen Finger, ich glaube der war mal verletzt🙈 werde es mal einbauen!

[@cliveparaschis]

Good luck in the Britten Theatre🧗🏻‍♀️. Hope you also get to play in the Albert Hall just up the stairs from there one day .😊

[@Apex_Piano]

Hii, I could be wrong on this theory, but the size of hands might also play a factor in this. There is a famous picture of Rachmaninoff with his hands at the keyboard (and we all know how large his hands were), and his knuckles were almost lower than his fingers. Despite this, some might say that he was the greatest piano player of all time (debatable). Maybe it’s some Russian old school technique, I’m not entirely sure, but it sure is interesting. P.S: 1min 10min 1 hour Rach 3 ossia cadenza

[@ralphiesal]

she said on her instagram story that she has played rach 3 when she was younger. one of the questions asked which cadenza she played and she stated “the cool one”

[@barrypaulh]

Awesomeness 🎹

[@MikeM91320]

Do you think its necessary to do this exercise weighted keys? Is it possible to find just the first exercise from that book? Thank you.

[@AkogwuDaniel-i1k]

I am currently preparing for my 1st year recitals in February, I don't know if it's possible I have an online master class on my pieces ........ Bach sinfonia no 10..... Claire de lune....... Mendelssohn songs without words opp 19 no3...... Haydn sonata........ Chopin's revolutionary etude

[@michaelalava8943]

is finger stability on the piano comparable to that on guitar? i play guitar as a hobby and my left hand can comfortably play the chromatic scale on the piano using fingers 3-4-5 at speed. i'm hoping that switching hands on the guitar will develop my right hand in the same way.

[@RJ-wj6kv]

Hi annique, ich glaube du meintest wohl "collapsing" anstelle von "colliding" 😅. Man hört bei deinen Übungen mit dem Akkord noch, dass es nicht 100% passt, ist es dann nicht schwer herauszufinden, welche/r Finger nicht zeitgleich den Ton erzeugen? Das könnte man mit einer App, die die Töne aufnimmt und analysiert bestimmt gut darstellen wo es noch verbesserungsbedarf gibt. Was meinst du dazu?

[@PianoMod]

Bud Spencer's hands are stable everytime. 😎👊🎹

[@IainInLondon]

There's lots of public pianos around London if you wanted to impress Joe Public and promote yourself. Nice grand piano in the V&A museum cafe and two in St Pancras station, which is popular with YouTubbers.

[@yosefGames]

I'm playing Liszt Etude 7, so it seems to me that I need more help with very fast arpeggios. There's one piece I've been sitting on for a month at the end of the piece, it's extremely difficult, but I'm also studying Chopin's Winter Vinide. 2

[@alyssaimani2664]

This is something that I need to get rid of my spaghetti hand posture 😂. This helps a lot. Thank you so much for sharing ❤.

[@villep7907]

Yea damn my first piece with my teacher was etude op10-12 , and yeaaa my hand looked like spaghetti. Let's just say it deeefinitely didnt work at first 😂 My teacher really worked on hand stability, and in the end there was CLEAR progress. I definitely agree that this is probably the most important, at least fundemental thing in playing the piano

[@sacrilegiousboi978]

My fingers looked like spaghetti when I was younger too, or like drunk spiders lol. My friend meanwhile looked much more effortless whilst playing, plus he was extremely accurate and barely made mistakes unlike me. Looking back at footage of him playing, he has an extremely stable hand position, you can always see his knuckles whilst playing.

[@AkogwuDaniel-i1k]

Hello annique🤗🤗

[@lordwilksy]

Great! There’s a Chopin chord I can play.. kinda 👊

[@piano_and_bouldering]

Hast du eine neue Haarfarbe?😊 steht dir gut😊😊

[@heartofthekeys]

Haha nein, das sieht in diesem Video nur rötlicher aus als sonst, weil das Licht ein wenig komisch eingestellt war und ich versucht habe, das im Edit irgendwie zu fixen 😅😂

[@piano_and_bouldering]

@heartofthekeys dann weißt du ja, falls du mal eine Veränderung willst, dass es so auch gut aussieht😄

[@DoubleFovea]

Interesting exercise! I will try it.

[@OdiKrause]

any chance that your piano needs tuning?

[@bh5606]

Like the hair color.

[@SantiagoMuñeton_V]

❤

[@moritzkonig5397]

noch nie so früh gewesen

[@ArminBub]

3:57 Always stay at the heart of the key, the edge 4:05 The pinky is in the middle of the key 😂

[@heartofthekeys]

Yup I am sorry - I also had to laugh about it while editing 😂 not easy to stay at the heart of the keys all the time 😂

[@DragonFruitSushi]

New video 😊

[@erickhenrique4673]

❤❤

[@leoisbae]

Have you seen Horowitz play? 😁

[@stanislavbichenko2563]

1:58 Ustvolskaya and Rzewski would like to have a talk with you

[@Schmidthorst69]

Ich glaube, Freddie Mercury hatte eine komplett konträre Technik. Auf den Videoaufnahmen sieht es fast immer so aus, als würden seine Hände regelrecht auf dem Klavier liegen. Aber gut, bei Ausnahmekünstlern ist ja eh alles anders.

[@sacrilegiousboi978]

He had a long, flat hand and hypermobile fingers, makes playing with this stable hand position very difficult. I have this problem too.

[@niklaswirges9085]

Das was Freddie Mercury spielt, ist auch ohne vernünftige Technik möglich. Ich vergöttere Freddie Mercury, bin mir aber sicher, dass er keine Beethovensonate oder schwierigeres spielen konnte.

[@Schmidthorst69]

@@niklaswirges9085 Aver er hätte sie definitiv singen können! ;-)

[@26joelpogi]

The blush on is too much

[@brian106699]

Will someone, a technical specialist please analyze Jesus Molina’s hands facility?

[@mirralivve777]

This is the surest way to make a student's hands tense and sore. Good job! 👍👏

[@KlaviersAnthology]

You keep talking about the "heart of the key" while more than half of baroque and classic repertoire puts you in a non-heart of the key position... You cannot generalise this advice. It's all about certain phrases/pieces/composition techniques.

[@robertavila1863]

[@zeroossi5967]

Useless advice

[@weissrw1]

Your presentation is frantic -- I don't want paino tips from somebody who is bouncing of the walls. Calm down!

[@no.7893]

Heaven forbid someone be energetic

[@weissrw1]

@@no.7893 Heaven forbid you address what I actually wrote. I said frantic. Thar's not nearly the same thing as energetic. Frantic is uncontrolled energy.

[@no.7893]

@@weissrw1 To think this was such an extreme you must've led an awfully quiet life. Good god man go outside and live a little instead of criticising the whimsey with which others carry themselves!

[@weissrw1]

@@no.7893 At least I have a name1

[@nicoleguiraud]

your editing is so unbearable... couldn't watch until the end.

[@justintimetoclashandbrawl3348]

Your mom is unbearable… couldn’t think of her until the end

[@clickclick9936]

what😭🙏

[@Dani-my5kx]

Are you going to perform in NRW?