3 Piano Speed Exercises To Make Your Fingers FLY 🕊🕊🕊

hello and welcome so in this lesson we are looking at three exercises to make your fingers fly in fact they're gonna fly so fast you might float up into the clouds like us and if you can tell me which composer is floating on these beautiful balloons here that'll be really cool you can comment below with your guesses all right so let's dive in the first exercise we're going to be looking at is going to be targeting your finger movements so often when we play fast we can become hindered by moments where we have to cross over or tuck those finger changes so if you can practice getting really really efficient and smooth at those changes kind of like when you're driving a standard i think they call that a manual have you ever done that driven a manual transmission it's like at first you're all like clumsy with the clutch and it's like ah it's happening but eventually you get really really smooth hopefully and you wouldn't even notice your passengers don't notice those shift points same thing with your fingering when you are trying to develop speed the way i want you to practice this is by playing a descending scale now i'm going to begin with c major i know i know but we're doing this because learning the finger patterns for a two octave scale is challenging without throwing in other you know keys to make it even more challenging so you can translate this anywhere you like but for now what i want you to do is place your five finger way up high on c and then you're going to descend just a normal scale so it's five four three two one three two one when you run out of keys you're gonna pivot with your fourth finger and reset that hand and then you don't have to really think about anything fancy again three two one and then it's just your normal three two one so it'll sound like this all together so that's what you're going to practice now you're going to find the tempo which you can practice this comfortably without any hiccups staying on the beat i highly recommend you use a metronome find your baseline tempo that's the tempo that you can play it on where you're like you have to kind of focus but you're not making mistakes and you're consistent [Music] when you can do that you can begin to increase that tempo and see how fast you can push your speed now to add a little bit of extra challenge to this you can practice playing your low note and seeing if you can stay on tempo to get back to your starting point and so this is very challenging so you might want to practice this i missed it it's right it's about accuracy here [Music] so you will develop not only speed but accuracy and precision if you work on it that way but like i said it's very challenging so it's up to you definitely definitely don't neglect your left hand with these exercises let's quickly look at the finger pattern before we move on to our next exercise so you could start at middle c and you're going to be descending so one two three tuck one two three four now don't play with your five finger here because then you're out of fingers you're gonna tuck at that point one two three one two three four five let's do it again one two three one two three four one two three one two three four five now don't be alarmed if your left hand cannot maintain the same tempo as your right hand out the gates the left hand usually needs a little bit more love and that's okay you're all good if you want to practice the stands together you absolutely can as well just make sure you're staying consistent with your tempo and that you're playing those transitions those finger tucks and fly overs as smoothly as you can all right the next exercise we are looking at to make your fingers fly has to do with a pattern that's going to kind of bend your brain a little bit so it's great to learn a scale all the notes are consistent you know exactly what's expected because we usually learn skills pretty early on in our piano playing journey and the brain can kind of go into a little bit of an autopilot mode so to create a pattern to give yourself a pattern to work on that's outside of the norm not only are you working your speed with your fingers and your control and all of those great things but you're also making sure that your brain is ready for new challenges so when you're practicing a song that requires you to play a passage that's very very fast you're prepared to do that new learning and to kind of stay on your toes but your fingers rather anyways let's take a look at the pattern so again we're going to start on c but you can translate this to any key that you would like we're just sticking with c to keep it simple as we learn so you're going to go one two three two three tuck one two one two three four five wow so fast it's gonna sound like this and you can just spend a few minutes playing that pattern over and over it's challenging to play though because not only are we doing back and forth we're implementing a thumbtack as well so i'm going to do that slowly again and i will call the note names this time so c d e d e tuck to f g f g a b c a little faster again c d e d e f g f g a b c oh my goodness that's more challenging than it sounds so if you really want to work your brain say the note names out loud and try to do it fast oh my goodness so once you're there that's when you're going to begin to work on tempo and speed first learn the pattern it's challenging then grab your metronome find the tempo that you can play this at that feels comfortable and begin to push your bpm by three to five each time until you hit your wall where you can't play consistently anymore so the cool thing about this is you can actually move your hand around diatonically so instead of starting on c you could start on d just play white keys and then you can move up you can move it through it that way if you wanted to and you could also challenge yourself to play on other key signatures so for d major you just include f sharp and c sharp this time [Music] and gradually build your speed don't forget your left hand so let's take a quick look at that one it's going to feel quite different five four three four three two one two one up and over three two one c d e d e f g f g a b c quickly so the weak point is the movement between the four and the five so be careful you don't lose control there so you might want to play with a little bit more pressure or intentionality just so that you don't kind of lose your rhythm or your control there see i kind of lost my temple on the last one because i wasn't staying super focused this exercise will require you to be very focused use the metronome when you're ready after you've learned the pattern and then have fun with it all right our final exercise uses chords and this is a really fun chord movement um you're going to hear it it might sound very familiar to you we're going to be moving from a one chord to an inverted four chord don't worry i'll tell you exactly what to play back to one and then to what we call a five seven or a dominant seven chord oftentimes you'll hear songs end like that's kind of what we're playing with here but these movements are so close together that they create such a perfect template for a speed exercise now instead of targeting these little finger movements we're actually working more um on getting into the shape and then using our wrist a little bit to rotate and give us the advantage of speed so it's a different feel in this exercise so what i'd like you to do is play a c chord which is c e g then i want you to play an f chord in second inversion so that just means to play c f a then we're gonna come back to our root position c which is like our home base then we're going to drop our thumb to b and we're gonna keep our five finger here we're gonna play b f g so one more time c e g c f a c e g b f g now once you have it you're going to work on speed and it's it's a little bit harder than it looks so again use your metronome to help you stay on track and get comfortable with those movements you will probably find that the left hand might be a little bit more clumsy and pay attention to um consistency so my five fingers to grab and dive into that note try to keep all of the notes consistent use your wrist to help you don't get tense so many things to think about and if you want you can play it hands together or on any chord or key signature that you want to to bring the challenge level up and up and up so there you have it those are three exercises that you can practice to make your fingers fly now i just want to review it only counts with speed exercises if you're staying on tempo if your tempo's all crazy and you're like [Music] that's no good you need to be very very consistent so use your metronome to help you also remember you only get to the fast part by going through the slow part first your success of being speedy will be so much better if you take the time i know it can feel kind of painful when you're like ready to go fast but go slow and build the muscle memory on these notes and get really comfortable with the patterns and the movements then bring your speed up gradually it'll be a way smoother process and you'll be flying those fingers around the keyboard in no time so happy practicing comment below if you have any questions let me know the name of the composer if you can if you can guess and we'll see you next time [Music] you

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Length: 10min 34sec (634 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 30 2021