The One Piano Exercise That Can Transform Your Playing

Welcome to LivingPianos.com, Robert Estrin with the one piano exercise that can transform your piano playing. Now that's a bold statement and I'm going to back it up here and the best part is you don't have to learn anything new because it turns your music into exercises.

What is the biggest challenge on the piano? Well, you could say it's playing the hands together.

Well, beyond that though, when you're playing more complex music you've got a lot more than just two parts going on and how do you distinguish between the parts, the lines of music? Just like an orchestra has different instruments and you might want to hear the melody of the oboe while the strings are hushed or it could be reversed. How do you control something like that on the piano? By the way, if you like these videos, check out the description if you want to take your piano playing to the next level.

This is a technique that you can use with any music you have where you want to bring out different parts in the score. I'm going to demonstrate with several different pieces. You can do this with virtually anything.

Let's say you're playing, for example, the Moonlight Sonata and of course you want to bring out the melody, not just the triplets. So instead of playing it the way it's written...

You notice the balance I'm able to achieve with the melody so it doesn't sound like this.

The way to practice this, and you can do this with any of your music, is by using different articulations.

Watch.

Your hand learns melody from accompaniment and then playing it effortlessly with the melody coming through is achieved for you.

You can do this with anything. How about the... since we're in Beethoven, the second movement of the Pathetique Sonata, so what you can do instead is practice it like this.

And that enables you to easily play it like this.

You can do this with virtually any music. It doesn't necessarily have to be so segmented with accompaniment and melody. It could be even something that's chordal and you want to be able to bring out any notes of the chords. So, like for example Schumann, The Poet Speaks...

You could practice it...

But you could bring out any of these lines. You could go...

So you can listen to each individual line and get it under the control of your hands by something that is far more quantifiable than loud and soft.

Gentle finger staccato for the notes you want to underplay and lean into the melody notes that you do want to hear. And you can practice virtually any of your music this way, turning it into the most valuable exercise you've ever had.

If you like tips like this and you're interested in really taking your playing to a higher level, check out the description in the video. Again, I'm Robert Estrin and this is LivingPianos.com, your online piano resource.

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