Hi,
I am at a point where I need to advance my keyboard practices from beginner type exercises to more intermediate things. I have been warming up going backwards and forward in multiple minor and major scales with both the left hand and right hand. I do complete exercises where I try to work one finger harder than the others until I feel some burn, and I try to do this to every finger, lol, I have found with strength in my fingers I am starting to be able to actually not have a mindfuck when I play something different with my left hand. (as weird as that sounds, also muscle memory and stuff)
but anyways, I want to find some exercises that help me improve my offhand (left) that aren't stupidly easy but at the same time aren't expert level (I am self taught, so I like to jump in as far as I can go, but I usually swim out to far before I find my true comfort zone)
Is there any app or website that you would recommend for keyboard lessons/training? That would be ideal.
How to Start intermediate practices? Is there an app?
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qtheerearranger qtheerearranger https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=325452
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JumpingJackFlash JumpingJackFlash https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=44005
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- 1227 posts since 10 Oct, 2004
If you're serious, I strongly recommend finding a teacher, even if it's just for a few lessons.
At this stage, what you do isn't nearly important as how you do it. In other words, adopting a good technique is of paramount importance. Get that right, and things start to flow naturally. Get it wrong, and it becomes much harder to improve - it's very hard to unlearn things once you've got into bad habits (I'm not saying you are, but a teacher will be able to tell - there's all sorts of things relating to posture, fingering and stuff that you might not even have thought much about yet).
A few hours with a good teacher is worth a lot more than anything you will find online.
At this stage, what you do isn't nearly important as how you do it. In other words, adopting a good technique is of paramount importance. Get that right, and things start to flow naturally. Get it wrong, and it becomes much harder to improve - it's very hard to unlearn things once you've got into bad habits (I'm not saying you are, but a teacher will be able to tell - there's all sorts of things relating to posture, fingering and stuff that you might not even have thought much about yet).
A few hours with a good teacher is worth a lot more than anything you will find online.
Unfamiliar words can be looked up in my Glossary of musical terms.
Also check out my Introduction to Music Theory.
Also check out my Introduction to Music Theory.
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- 15256 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
+1. Spend some time with an actual piano teacher.JumpingJackFlash wrote:A few hours with a good teacher is worth a lot more than anything you will find online.
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