Piano Lessons for Beginners: Simple and Effective Strategies to Learn Piano Lessons and the Importance of Piano Musical Chords by Studio Triumph

Author:Studio, Triumph [Studio, Triumph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-12T16:00:00+00:00

As soon as you're done with the working or needed muscles, turn them off.

Using the one-finger gravity drop as an example, the first way of conserving energy is easy, since it's simply allowing gravity to control the drop, while the rest of your entire body is comfortable on the chair you're sitting on. This makes playing so easy. However, a tense person or a beginner would end up using muscles for lowering their hands too.

For the second way, you will have to learn the technique of relaxing all muscles when you reach the end or bottom of the key drop. For a gravity drop, gravity does the work of pulling the arms down, but at the end of a key drop, creating tension for a short while is needed to stop the hand. After, you have to relax all your muscles quickly. Ensure you avoid leaving the hand or resting it on the piano to prevent pressing it down. However, this proves to be difficult because of the weight of your elbow resting in the air.

Stressing opposing muscles is a major cause of tension, and if a player is not aware of it, prolonged stressing could eventually lead to injury. Learning to control opposing muscles (e.g., flexors and extensors) independently of each other is crucial. Equally crucial is the need to master the control of fingers on the hand individually. In fact, the worst thing about stress is that it puts you in a fight you can’t win, because you are your own opponent, and funny enough, you are obviously as strong as you are, hence your inability to win. This could also eventually lead to injury because your muscles become stronger than the material strength of the body.

Lack of training would make some people explicitly turn off muscles; normally, you simply forget about them when you're done with them. Nevertheless, one needs to relax rapidly in fast finger work; else, the fingers will never get time to rest and in turn, get ready for the next note.

An effective exercise for practicing rapid relaxation is to start with one key down and with the same finger, play a moderately loud note. Afterward, you have to apply a force to both the up and down region and turn it off. After turning it off, you have to return to the feeling you had at the end of a gravity drop. You will notice that the harder you play that note, the longer it takes for you to relax. Therefore, you have to practice shortening your relaxation time. The good side of these relaxation methods is that after a while, they tend to become part and parcel of you, even while you're playing notes you have already learned, as long as you give relaxation the needed attention. In Chopin's teachings, relaxation, gravity drop, and avoidance of unnecessary repetitive exercises were important topics.

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