Both Hands Piano

Playing Piano with Both Hands. Here's some tips! More at http://www.waltribeiro.net

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[semmamun]

need help !!! i have a question please someone answer this who knows a lot about piano my question is ;

there are lot of songs having notes that are shown only on treble clef but in these songs left hand is used too

but why left hand is used in a song that has notes on treble clef??

please explain this !!!

[waltribeiro]

@semmamun i'm confused. is the sheet music consisting of 2 treble clefs? That just means your left hand plays the next octave up in the higher register. Treble clef doesn't mean "play with the right hand". treble clef tells you what octave to play in. Likewise, a piece of sheet music can also consist of 2 bass clefs played on piano - meaning both left and right hands are playing way down on the piano keys.

[MsAuntMary]

Hey, does anyone here know techniques to getting better with both hands.. you cant get better playing the piano with both hands if your only doing it with one (20 mins a day or not) ..

[waltribeiro]

@MsAuntMary take it super slow. painfully slow. then slowly increase over weeks. you'll get it

[SSvolksgrenadier]

i never heard of a mountain 3 times higher than from the ground to the atmosphere :)

im glad practice is all it needs actually. but i sorta wonder if reading the music at the same time makes a difference cause i just know the song in my head.

[waltribeiro]

@SSvolksgrenadier thats fine, but what if you wanted to sell the composition? or archive it? or have someone else see what you hear?

[slaughtz]

Wow, this was actually one of the most inspiring videos I've watched, surprisingly. The reason why, this doesn't talk about some 'higher' reason for practicing, which can make you feel insignificant, you talk only about personal progress and the way you put the 'mountain' into perspective is great. We need more teachers like you to inspire students. (This actually inspired me to practice Spanish, as well as piano.) Thanks for the tough love.

[IYFGames712]

I've been playing piano for over 5 years and cannot even make this work. Your strategy doesn't help me. I can accurately play a song with one hand each, but when it comes to both hands I can't even play a song at one note a minute speed and get it even partially right. My right hand wants to go at the speed of my left, but my left wants to do each bass note at the same time the melody notes go off, which throws off my right hand.

How do you fix that?

[XxXMew17XxX]

heres a good exercise that I do when am not around my keyboard. place both your hands on a table or any surface you can find. relax your hands and let them take the playing stance. with either your right or left hand do a tapping movement as if your playing a chord. let your other hand lay flat on the surface and do a sweeping movement from left to right at the same time your other hand is tapping. start slow and you can speed or switch movements between hands to make it more challenging.

[Swabeerful]

@waltribeiro u r awesome... keep doin bro..... :) Loads of respect 

[imtheonlysane1here]

Playing an instrument is like using any other tool: it has to become so familiar for you that it becomes an extension of your own body. When I type on my computer, I don't think of placing my finger on this key or that key any more than I think of how to move my individual muscles to lift my arm. I've done it so much that I just think of what words to type and my fingers to the rest on their own. It has to be the same way with an instrument.

[semmamun]

as you mentioned above clefs show the octaves to play now i got it thanks (:

and i want to know one thing please help me my bro

you know that there are lot of songs that only consist of treble clef or bass clef so how i will play this song on piano? how i will understand which hand to perform the song?

[SSvolksgrenadier]

uh, i guess i would play it then. some people sight read others use there ears, either way both can bebetter with the other