Tips & Tricks To Enhance Your Piano Finger Speed

There’s no denying that finger speed is extremely essential when you’re playing your piano. The faster you can move your fingers across your piano keyboard, the better you can play the music. Knowing the piano keyboard well can also help you play more advanced music without any hassle. 

According to experts teaching music lessons in Rancho Palos Verdes, there are certain types of exercises that you can perform to enhance your finger speed when learning to play a new song or tune. Hence, we have included the ideal types of exercises that you’d want to perform to increase your piano playing finger speed.

Recommendations To Increase Your Piano Finger Speed

1. Learn The Notes Of The Tune That You’re Planning To Work On

Before you start playing your piano, always take a few minutes to visually read through the notes of the tune or music that you’ll be playing. Inspect whether you can recognize all the notes. Once you recognize them, learn the note names and pin-point them onto the keyboard. 

After that, you need to start playing each note slowly by saying each note and then typing the same on the piano. In this way, you’ll be able to read & play at the same time. 

2. Ensure That Your Finger Technique Is Proper

Once you're aware of the notes and their location on the piano keyboard, you now have to ensure that you're using the correct fingers for those notes. For instance, start playing with the first finger and then slowly utilize the rest of your fingers in proper order. Avoid using abrupt fingers for each note, such as the fifth finger for the first note, the first finger for the second note and so on. 

Furthermore, make sure that your fingers are properly curved over the piano keyboard so that your fingers can have the space to move properly at any given tempo – especially at a quicker one.

Your primary goal should be to use the correct fingers for each note so that you can smoothly play your piano at any given tempo. 

3. Practice With The Help Of A Metronome

In case you’re unaware then you must know that a metronome is a certain type of device that will click beat at a specific tempo that you can cope with. You can opt for any online metronome, available for free. 

Proceed to set your metronome at a slow & comfortable tempo at the start. Play at the slow tempo and don't hesitate to further lower the tempo if you have to. For starters, we suggested having the tempo between 60 & 80. Ensure that the notes you click with each metronome beat are correct. Moreover, make sure that you're comfortable with the playing experience. 

Once you're comfortable with the current tempo, increase the tempo of the metronome by a little bit and follow the same practice procedure. Continue increasing the tempo until you're happy with your piano playing speed and you can type without any mistakes. Finally, your finger speed for playing the piano will increase. 

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