Don't Play Your Fingers Like THIS

[@anggunnenohai3870]

Dear my online piano teacher! Thank you for your concerns on these details. I am beyond grateful to have you as my online mentor and teacher! Your contents are my guide to learn piano as a beginner. I learned a lotttttt from all of your contents. Please stay healthy and happy, dear online piano teacher and family! 🌻

[@winsomewalstead2157]

Woah, this video was awesome. LOVED how you put this together. Super helpful and educational info with awesome visuals, great combo.

[@DavidMiller-bp7et]

Reviewing all tutorials again, from the beginning. Another important but often neglected consideration. This happens to me when holding a note, especially in a chord, at times. If I'm moving, it never occurs. In rendering a piece it seldom happens but when practicing, slowing way down to watch my hand position, it sometimes happens. This makes me more conscious of the issue, to watch for it, even in slow practice because once one puts the key down, extra pushing effort results in nothing but diminishing returns. This is confirmed/verified by watching Martha Argerich's hand hand and finger work. She employs a full array of finger positions, depending on what she needs for a riff, but never last finger joint broken down. Pretty good source to back up C's point. Thanks to all contributors of good will.

[@wilydingus]

Awesome thank you

[@politereminder6284]

What about playing chords? Three or four fingers at once. That's not weight from one finger to the next

[@serkantekdemir9946]

Thank you for the useful information. It is easier to keep the fingers intact whan playing whte keys, however, it gets much more dificult when black keys are played. For instance; when I play E, F#, G, A, B, A, G, F#, E (5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) with my left hand, 4th finger (F#) gets collapsed as you showed in your video. what are your thoughts on that? and do you have any suggestions for this or the same solutions as you described in the video are applied to it as well? thanks...

[@Garnassium]

I can't seem to fix this on my right hand, particularly the ring finger.

[@h4nnnnnnnaa440]

but my nail plate protrudes over my fingertips so its rlly slippery😞

[@88steps81]

I'm guilty of this mistake. Most often with my index fingers

[@jimwalshonline9346]

Ditto

[@Hild1]

This has been giving me a headache for years. My now 12 year old son collapses his fingers just like that while playing, and I don't know how to change that. In addition to this, he also jumps with his wrists. Despite his horrible hand technique, my son is an advanced pianist. He played his first big concert at the age of five, and for the last two years he has being asked to accompany professional singers including a diva who is regarded the best singer of my country, so there is lots of filming going on and I find my son's playing hands rather embarrassing. I guess the fact that he understands music cognitively so well and can sight read very complex music is what makes him successful, but I think his technique is very problematic. Unfortunately he is completely self taught (I only gave him some basic lessons when he was three years old, and I'm not a piano player). He cannot straighten out both of his arms evenly, he has a hollow back and a funnel chest and he has a lisp. This all has to do with weak body tension. So I'm not sure if anything can even be done about it.

[@henriksalvesen1078]

This is in conflict with Taubmann technique, which empathise keeping the “nail joint” straight when striking the key.

[@strcopy]

For me it’s the right index finger 😢