Symmetrical TechniqueTricks - Keyboard Exercises

[@brbmakingmusic9179]

Easily my new favorite resource for composing and technique!

[@o.g.tommye7580]

Thanks! I appreciate the lessons

[@ImpliedMusic]

Thank you!

[@AnnieToby-x9u]

Thank you again Chris! ❤

[@tuttib1902]

Oooo.... an alien musicologist, comes to earth......and so a composition idea begins 😀

[@markyachnin1901]

So thought provoking and actionable. Thank you!

[@garygimmestad4272]

These are great insights into the mechanics of piano playing! One thing you didn’t talk about was the space between chords. With the 4-beat configuration, you lifted off on three to allow time to reset hands and brain. If you wanted a full whole note to sound, you could use the pedal to cover the gap - in which case it wouldn’t matter when you lifted your hands in terms of sound. Your choice to play dry and to keep duration in the hands is an important aspect of this exercise. While you hold one chord, your brain and body anticipate the next move. When you decrease the durations, it requires you to navigate the transitions more quickly. I’m just stating the obvious but it begs the question about what’s actually happening in our brain and body while we’re holding notes. In order to truly be in the flow, in the center of the moment, all of that stuff has to be sublimated, done without thought. The longer we’re inactive, the more susceptible we are to distractions and extraneous thoughts. I talk to my students about this stuff often, about how we manage brain activity, how we physically and mentally navigate varying rates of change. One of the benefits of the metronome is that it forces us to decide in a measured way; it’s an excellent task master. Good stuff, as always. Thank you, Chris!

[@ImpliedMusic]

Excellent points!

[@nightnoodler812]

ohh I like these exercises, I like the idea of the spread and the shifts. All about those patterns. Thank You great great vid.👽🎹😄

[@101xaplax101]

wonderful insights..............I think I know who the alien is here

[@harryleblanc4939]

My primary axe these days is a linnstrument, which has a 2d grid, half tones across and fourths up. My next hurdle is to get scale changes under my finger (e.g., switching between major & minor scales mid-run at any point in the scale). I love the sonorities of playing groups of 5 notes from a scale up and down. Would sound lovely with long dreamy pads.

[@lxathu]

Although it would spoil cross-hand runs, a really mirrored piano where both halves ascend from the axis outward sounds like a nice idea to not-even-beginners, or at least, to me.

[@PeterJohnBailey]

Revealing.

[@metgirl5429]

😳😬😳…. Wish me luck🎹

[@reverb.deluxe]

Not much comes to mind that you can do symmetrically on the guitar. That two handed mirror technique looks almost like a form of meditation. But practicing relaxed chord changes on the guitar with mindfulness is worthwhile, since uneven pressure can detune the strings enough to sound annoying.

[@hayjazz7318]

Sounds like Vardan Ovsepian