Thank you!! thanks for watching:)

True concise videos on certain topics allow for more engaging and focused videos which will also appeal to more people. Great vids

Excellent content and delivery, helps a lot in the learning process. Thank you!

thanks so much

I also had that issue playing through gemnopedi but what I did with my left hand for the four tone was limit it to three note because there is a limit to the notes the left hand can play.

Right, you'll want to keep your body mobile as you play by scooching around on the bench. Perhaps try aligning your navel with the G above middle C as your starting position for that piece and bringing your body to the left when you hit the bass notes. Make sure to stay as relaxed as possible and keep your movement smooth as you do this.

@@twopoles11 Thank you very much for your advice!👍 and I will surely try this 🙂

Make sure you aren't lifting your fingers. After you play a note your finger should go back up when relaxed. Like when you hold out your hand flick your finger with the other hand it will rebound back in a fraction of a second. If the tendonitis is in the upward facing part of the forearm or hand then it's surely to do with lifting. I think he recommends lifting in this video because it's good to do as a beginner in order to stretch the tendons, and you can't really injure yourself with beginner pieces. The other obvious reason is playing above your level. It's not something you should brute force as the tension bakes into your hand and you end up like me with no flexibility. Muscular tension is ok to loosen but tendon tension is not so easy to get rid of.

I was wondering about some of these too. I thought the "new school" ideas were centered around neutral positions and minimal muscle activity from hand/finger muscles

@@Hobbyist387 I do not think there are really "new schools". There are many lines/legacies/schools and it seems that they often mix with each other. But there are also many not so knowledgeable YT pianists teaching things they do not really understand, with not so good or no follow up with students or just audience. But your are right about neutral position and minimal muscle activity, this is very good and fundamental in many lines (eg., russian, polish, recent french); but not that much taught in china for instance; they go backward in time to previous and spread very bad approaches.

​​@@MathieuPrevotThe Russian school of piano playing generated one of the best pianists ever including Vladimir Horowitz. I'm a Richter fan tho myself

@@schrysafis Few maybe ? I love Horowitz (Ukraine), he also have straight fingers too at times, he is also a god of performance and stage. Anyway, in this video, there is no russian/polish technique. This is BS.

Completely right. The video is just plain wrong.

Truth is, every hand position provides a different sound. Some people do not know this.

Yeah, but they are professionals that probably have formed a solid technique that allows them to play as they want :) This advices are great for students

@@vicentepulidodrevespiano2494 No, they aren't. When you tell students to round their fingers, 99% of the time they unnaturally curl up their fingers and it causes all sorts of horrible problems. And lifting the fingers is just going to get you injured. This is why so many piano students are injured or uncomfortable while they play.

So maybe tell them to keep them relaxed with the wrist, in stead of curl. When the fingers and wrist are relaxed there is a natural curl to the hand

@@paulcinquini3718 I like your thinking, but I believe "relax" is often a dangerous word to use, though, because it implies the absence of muscular contraction and leads to motions being initiated in the wrong part of the body. "Neutral" and "free" are the terms I like.

i do think curling your fingers can be good for specific exercises like hannon for improving finger isolation and dexterity. But as a general technique in your playing it is going to hold you back.