Piano Technique and Exercises for Adult Beginners

Improve your piano playing with technical skills!

Piano technique is what you need to work on consistently, to be able to make musical choices as you play; quickly and effortlessly.

Learning To Play Piano

Learning to play our instrument well involves many aspects of practicing.

Apart from learning to actually find the notes on the instrument, you will learn:

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

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

Here is a look at different aspects of piano playing, and many free lessons with tips and exercises. Read on for free lessons in technique for piano beginners.

Piano Technique Lessons

• Build Your Piano Playing Technique: A step by step plan for the adult beginner on how you build your piano skills with recommended materials included.

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

• 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.

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

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

• Piano Arpeggios: Part of an important technical skill, playing 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!

• Melody vs. Accompaniment: How to Bring out the Melody: 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.

• How to Play Piano with 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.

• 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 . 

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

• Piano Scales: Learn about scales and easy ways to learn and play them.