The wrists should not be below the hands. Piano finger numbers are found in piano sheet music and indicate which finger to use on a specific note. The number one represents the thumb, two equals the index finger, three is assigned to the middle finger, four indicates the ring finger, and five designates the pinky finger.
To start with, you can play the first five notes of the C major scale C, D, E, F, G with your right hand and use all five fingers to play each note, which will strengthen the weaker fourth and fifth fingers.
This will also help you avoid developing bad habits such as exclusively using the stronger fingers. While playing these notes, it is important to curve your fingers as this ensures greater agility and reduces the risk of accidental notes. Once you master this you can progress to playing the full C major scale C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C which is played as follows: 1 thumb , 2 index , 3 middle 1 thumb 2 index , 3 middle , 4 ring , and 5 pinky finger.
As you might notice, the thumb goes under the index and middle fingers, which are in turn lifted over the thumb and this allows you to reach all eight notes in one continuous phrase. You can repeat the same pattern in reverse on the way down to reach the first note in the scale This, in essence, is what piano finger numbers are about and they set the foundation to consider other aspects of piano finger placement and technique.
When deciding which fingers to use as you study a piece, you might consider the direction of the notes. In the C major scale example, they lead up to the octave of the root note of C so we used the 1,2,3, 1,2,3,4,5 finger pattern to reach that eight note without any stops or gaps.
When learning new pieces, you should think about the course that the notes take and study where the phrases are continuous and where they stop in the sheet music. There are plenty of ways to play the same thing.
All you've got are just some general rules. For the "piano lesson" book songs and SOME sheet music, there are little numbers next to the notes from 1 to 5. But this is unfortunately pretty rare. Although extremely helpful and sometimes given fingering won't work for YOUR fingers. So you're going to have to work it out on your own most of the time. This is what you do in your first several "play through"s of a song:.
Write it down in pencil on the sheet music!! Use pencil, because you'll likely find a better way to finger it when you reach the next section or after thinkin' on it a bit especially after a good night's sleep.
Watch the min and max range of notes for the section you're on, and figure out how you can make your fingers cover them best, with minimal hand position changes. For chord after chord after chord type sections, you'll probably be moving hand positions. Otherwise, try to keep your hands somewhat stationary so you'll know what notes you have under your fingers easier.
You want your brain and fingers to remember ONE fingering, not a couple of variations swapped in and out randomly!! Sign up to join this community. It allows you to have some reference points on which to base your playing. Finger numbering is so useful that it has been adopted and applied to piano scores.
This is what we will see now. In the example above, we can notice that each note on the staff is attached to a number, located just above. This number corresponds to the finger with which to play the note, according to the numbering we discussed in the previous section. To differentiate the fingers of the left hand from those of the right hand, you just have to look at the two staves. The top one called treble clef represents the notes to be played with the right hand.
The fingers attached to it are therefore those of the right hand. On the other hand, the bottom staff called bass clef represents the notes to be played with the left hand. For this score, you must play successively the notes of the right hand as follows: Thumb — index finger — middle finger — ring finger — little finger — ring finger — middle finger — index finger.
At the same time, you must also play successively the notes of the left hand in the following way: Little finger — ring finger — middle finger — index finger — thumb — index finger — middle finger — ring finger.
The following video provides a summary of what was covered in this section. It brings you an additional pedagogical element to understand the reading of the finger numbers on a score:. Now we will apply the finger numbering to a practical exercise well known to beginner pianists: scales.
Scales are one of the most important piano exercises to work on your dexterity, speed of execution and sequences. In simpler terms, a scale is used to work on note sequences in a fluid manner to improve your piano technique.
But how do we train our piano fingering with scales? We will take the most famous scale as an example: C major. The C major scale consists of a sequence of 8 notes in a row that starts at the note C of an octave and ends with the same note of the octave above. Once you get to the eighth note, you have to go back down on the piano playing the same notes to get to the initial C the one in the lower octave.
At first sight, this is an easy exercise. However, to work on your dexterity, each note of the scale must be played with a specific finger of your hand. Look at the score below, which represents a C major scale, where each note is assigned a finger number.
You can notice on the score above that each note of the scale is attached to a specific finger, whose corresponding number is written below the note. For the right hand, the C major scale should be played as follows: — Scale rise: thumb — index finger — middle finger — thumb — index finger — middle finger — ring finger — little finger. If you use your fingers in this order, you have a succession of notes played in the way that is mechanically most efficient for your sequence.
You will find that at first, this will not be easy to do, nor will it be innate. But, as you work the C major scale in a loop, it will become mechanical for you. Working on your scales will greatly improve your fingering and piano technique.
We advise you to play them assiduously in order to have the most fluid playing possible. By combining several types of exercises, you can acquire solid skills that will greatly improve your playing, your fingering and your ease on the piano. In fact, many piano books offer a lot of exercises that you can use as inspiration. To help you improve your technique, we offer you 4 piano fingering exercises. This is the easiest of the four exercises and one of the most effective in strengthening your fingers and speed of movement on the keyboard.
Start by placing two of your fingers any two on two adjacent piano keys. Play them one after the other at a steady pace and with the same velocity. Once you have mastered the tempo, you can of course speed up or slow down to practice different rhythms. As soon as you feel comfortable, switch fingers. This allows us to play the first three bars without moving our hand. Easy right?! In the fourth bar however, some of the notes are out of reach. Looking closely at the bar, we can see that the lowest and highest notes are five keys apart.
This means that we can easily play the bar by sliding our hand up into another five finger position. This time with our thumb on G. As you can see, if we play the first five notes from bar eleven our thumb ends up on E, leaving the highest note in bar twelve D out of reach. This means that we cannot play the entire melody without moving out of the five finger position. The next part is the tricky bit so pay attention!
To play the third note, we need to move our thumb underneath our second finger and onto A.
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