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Hi, this is Tom Kenaston. I'm a singer, songwriter, pianist, living in West Palm Beach, and also
New York. This clip is going to be about how to learn piano fingering. The first thing
that you need to know is you have, hopefully, five fingers. The fingers in piano music would
be called, starting with the thumb, one, two, three, four, five. Very easy. The main thing
about piano fingering, some music, as you look at it, as you learn to read music and
you look at it, they'll actually write fingering in. They'll say, for instance, on this F in
this section of the music, you want to play it with your first finger, with one. Which
is not first finger, it's the thumb. Remember, the thumb is always one. Don't think of first
finger, second finger, one, two. It's always one here. So, you would play the F with the
one. Then they might say play the A with the three. So then you're going to go to your
third finger. And then they might say play the C with your fifth finger, or with the
five, sorry, which would be this one. Generally, as you're looking at music and or deciding
to finger, you know, come up with your own fingering on the piano, the key is to keep
your hand in the natural position. It would be awkward if I were to play the F with my
one, and then the G with my five. Then your hand's going to tense up and be silly looking.
The point is you want to keep your hand natural, and if you're fingering through these chords,
pretty just, pretty much want it to lay naturally. And then as your hand needs to stretch, you
generally always want to do that, keep it looking natural, one, two, three, four, five.
This is Tom Kenaston. This has been how to learn piano fingering.