subject: Coordinating The Hands Correctly When Learning To Play The Piano [print this page] Co-ordination can be one of the hardest things to grasp when you are starting to learn the piano. Can you play your piece of music or scale perfectly hands apart, but completely freeze or your music is everywhere when you start trying to play it HANDS TOGETHER? If you don't practice how to coordinate the hands enough then your playing will just always sound messy.
Well you are not the only one, this is a very common problem for beginners learning the piano, but it's something you have to work at, and once you have mastered this skill, you will keep this with you forever, it's like when you learn you to ride your bike, once you have this skill, you never forget it. Playing the piano HANDS TOGETHER is very similar.
First off find some scales that you like and start to practice these HANDS TOGETHER on a regular basis...This will help improve your co-ordination. Contrary Motion scales in different KEYS are always a popular option for beginners to start with, as the fingering pattern is the same in BOTH HANDS and you change at the same time, so these are a good place to start when looking into LEARNING YOUR SCALES.
Broken Chords and Arpeggios are another great way of improving your co-ordination, and these appear in some many songs. If you become competent with your arpeggios and broken chords, you will automatically pick up on patterns where they appear in pieces, these are most commonly used in left hand sections of songs.
They are easier if you firstly learn with your hands separately so that you gain confidence with the notes the play them together. This skill is very much like riding a bike and once you can do this you will never forget how to do it. You make get rusty if you don't practice but you will have it forever.
