10 Tips To Speed Up Your Fingers At The Piano

The point of these 10 tips is to get you thinking about how to create exercises. This is only scratching the surface. Try coming up with your own exercises as well. If these are too difficult, try using the simple 5-finger scale in either the right or left hand while doing a full scale or arpeggio in the opposite hand,

1. Play Major, minor, and Dominant 7th arpeggios. Do only 3 per week. After 1 month, you will have gone through all 12.
2. Play contrary motion (left hand goes down, right goes up) then switch.
3. Play hands together 2 octaves
4. Play left hand 1 octave, right hand 2 octaves
5. Left hand 1 octave, right hand 1 octave Major scale or any other (different) scale
6. Do the opposite of #5
7. Hands together 2 octaves then come down chromatic scale
8. Do same as #7 but come down Major scale or any other scale
9. Go up any scale (major, minor, blues, etc) then come down an arpeggio
10. Play different arpeggios in each hand. Maybe do a C7 arpeggio in the left hand and a E-7b5 in the right hand. This will create some interesting harmonies

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Willie Myette is a Berklee-trained pianist, author of over a dozen music education books, and serial entrepreneur who has built multiple global piano education brands. A scholarship recipient to Berklee College of Music, Willie launched his first company, JazzKids®, teaching children as young as six how to improvise and create their own music. As a professional jazz musician, he has toured nationally and internationally, produced three albums with his trio Katahdin’s Edge, earned radio play on over 90 stations, received coverage in DownBeat, JazzTimes, and Jazziz, and showcased at SXSW. He is the founder and president of Jazzedge® Academy, Jazz Piano Lessons, and HomeSchool Piano—online platforms serving students worldwide, from absolute beginners to professional pianists, using his structured 6-step teaching method.

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