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#1205090 - 05/24/09 01:13 PM Keeping up With my left Hand.
Noisebox Offline
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Registered: 04/04/09
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Hi I'm fairly new to the piano but, I'm having trouble keeping up with my left hand while my right plays any tips i could get would be Appreciated.
Thanks

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#1205157 - 05/24/09 04:13 PM Re: Keeping up With my left Hand. [Re: Noisebox]
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Registered: 04/03/09
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What works for me is learning hands separate first. I always start with the left hand too because it's always the most difficult to learn. Once I can play left and right hand separate to the required tempo, only then do I play hands together. You have to learn one hand at a time. Playing very slow to two hands will hinder your progress.

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#1205179 - 05/24/09 05:17 PM Re: Keeping up With my left Hand. [Re: razzigirl]
erz Offline
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Registered: 11/30/08
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I brush teeth with my left hand. Maybe stupid but it helps me.

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#1205191 - 05/24/09 05:35 PM Re: Keeping up With my left Hand. [Re: erz]
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Registered: 09/16/06
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Something that's helped me on occasion is to figure out on which beats the hands are playing at the same time, and be conscious of them. Then I play it "really" slow and pay attention to that, and filling in between with notes that are in a single hand or not on the beat. But it gives me a few signposts for where I am in coordinating my hands.

Cathy

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#1205415 - 05/25/09 11:07 AM Re: Keeping up With my left Hand. [Re: jotur]
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Registered: 04/25/07
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Aside from playing scales, a very useful practice for me is to play a different pattern on the left hand vs. the right hand.

Examples:

Left hand plays scale in quarter notes, right hand plays scale in eighths (2 notes in right hand for every note in left hand)

Left hand plays scale in quarter notes, right hand plays scale in triplet eights (3 notes in right hand for every note in left hand)

Left hand plays scale in quarter notes, right hand plays scale in sixteenths (4 notes in right hand for every note in left hand)

This forces you to practice contrasting rhythms but keeping both hands in synch. Remember to accent the 1st note of each set in the right hand and that helps you time the left hand.

It would be best to use a metronome too. Start slow and then see if you can reach 100bpm on the left hand. Then over the years, you can target 150bpm (that's pretty fast already -- the right hand will be a blur -- so expect years to get there).






Edited by jazzwee (05/25/09 11:07 AM)
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