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Learning without distractions

3 ESSENTIAL Exercises for Beginning Pianists

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0:00 Three weaknesses of beginners
0:33 Exercise 1 (Strength)
1:40 Exercise 1b
2:13 Exercise 1c
2:45 Exercise 1d
4:58 Exercise 1e
6:46 Exercise 2 (Stretching)
7:49 Exercise 2b
9:06 Exercise 2c
9:55 Exercise 2d
11:08 Exercise 3 (Independence)
12:38 Exercise 3b

In today’s piano lesson I will help you work on three major weaknesses beginning piano players need to tackle: finger strength, the ability to stretch your hands, and left and right hand independence. In this tutorial I will present three exercises to practice and work on these shortcomings. For each exercise I will present several increasing levels of difficulty. This will work on both your left and right hands, to improve your piano agility, independence, speed, strength and overall performance.