Why Your Piano Teacher is Wrong About Curved Fingers

[@chriskemp466]

curved fingers doesn't require clawed tension like you demonstrated. I don't think anyone teaches that. What surprises me is how concert pianists don't seem to curve hardly at all (?)

[@daliasultan5812]

bcoz as u get older ur hands will naturally adapt relaxed posture only when ur fingers and hands are strong enough

[@gianfranco5036]

Love to see you growing! Keep it up

[@southpark5555]

Nice one Taylor. Take Vlad (Horowitz) for example. He has the flat finger technique. Each person has their own physique etc - own optimisations.

[@pluutoop]

Hey where is Tobiah? I miss his face and his violin teaching! 😭❣️

[@MurphyMusicAcademy]

Oh, I’m still here! I’m wanting to expand Murphy Music Academy into other instruments as well, so I’m hoping to have my piano and viola teachers learn to make videos and share them to the channel. It’s still a work in progress, but I called the channel “Murphy Music Academy” and not “Tobiah Murphy” for a reason. I always wanted it to be a full music school, not just a violin studio

[@deadmanswife3625]

@@MurphyMusicAcademy and there you have it folks there's a future Beyond today for all of us if we want it

[@pluutoop]

@@MurphyMusicAcademy oh that's wonderful! Bravo my friend 👏❣️

[@DivineSource444]

So what words would you use to explain to a student (that has finger joint collapse on each note played).,how to have a good hand shape? What would you suggest to them to recitify the finger joint collapse?

[@dvides89]

Title is a little clickbaity to be honest, never met a piano teacher who taught to play with fingernails. I do think the explanation you give is important though, because many students do forms ( my teacher calling it claws) which are as bad as playing collapsed.

[@taylorflowers4598]

An influential KZbin piano teacher teaches the "fingernail" method. I don't name names but it does occur and my first teacher wasn't far off from that either.

[@dvides89]

@@taylorflowers4598 ohh ok, from personal experience it is the first time I heard that incentive for the claw but there might be some people who teach it.

[@taylorflowers4598]

@@dvides89 Yes. Few go to that extreme, but most do not consider the consequences of urging their young students to always play with very curved fingers.

[@deadmanswife3625]

🙏

[@LucaCanetti]

I think you're all acting