Basic Piano Technique Tips

Improve Your Playing with Piano Technique

Learning to play our instrument well involves many aspects of practicing. Apart from learning to actually find the notes on the instrument (ahem..), a well rounded pianist should learn:

• Finger drills and to improve your piano playing with different piano exercises.
• How to use the piano pedals.
• To read piano music and to be able to sight read while playing.
• Different styles of music and how to interpret the music.
• To build a repertoire consisting of different composers as well as learn to perform the pieces stylistically correct.
• As a "cherry on the pie" you also need to learn to add your own personal touch to it all!
  

Piano Technique is Many Things...

All of the above could essentially be called "technique", but usually we mean the study and practice of exercises and etudes, scales, chords and their inversions as well as arpeggios, when we talk about technical studies. 

Below you'll find a look at different aspects of piano playing, and many free lessons with tips and exercises.

Piano Technique Lessons

Beginners

• Build Your Piano Playing Technique Step By Step: This is a step by step plan with suitable method and piano books for beginner (adult) pianists to help building a great piano playing technique.

• Correct Piano Fingering; The Why and The How: Learn the why and how of basic fingering for piano playing, and why it's so important to learn.

• Practice Piano Fingering: Drill those finger numbers while learning your first song: Ode to Joy by Beethoven.

• Piano Exercises for Beginners: Tips and advice on how to practice exercises for best results.
  

• Hanon's Piano Exercises: A Beginners Guide: Yes, you can learn to play Hanon's exercises as a beginner! Here's how to get started.

• The Piano Pedals: Learn how to use the piano pedals, as well as some easy exercises.

Intermediate

• Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist: The real deal. Print out (free) the famous exercises, and learn how to practice for the best results.

• Effective Exercises for Piano Arpeggios: Part of an important technical skill, arpeggios should be practiced regularly. Learn some tips on how to practice with musical examples as well.

• Musical Phrasing and Piano Playing: Learn how to play a beautiful and balanced musical phrase. Phrasing is so important to learn, and there are tricks to it!

• Piano Playing Tips: Melody vs. Accompaniment: Another technical skill so important to master is how to bring out a melody and not let it disappear in the noise of the accompaniment... Here are some clever exercises. 

All Levels

• How to Play Piano: Technique and Expression: The balancing act between technique and expression. Always remember that technique serves expression!
  

• Learn How to Play Piano Pain Free: If you experience any pain when you play- it's not OK! Learn about techniques for comfortable playing.

• Improving Piano Technique With Body Awareness. Learn how the body works and how to balance and focus your movements to avoid unnecessary tension.