You can buy pretty much anything about music there

You don't need much strength to play the piano, although it doesn't hurt to be strong. I'm more worried about hand injury from volleyball :)

Glad to hear that. This was one of the difficult topic to explain, so it took me a while to make this video.

Are you in Southern hemisphere?

Those are very good examples!

He's already made a video about him

That was one of the first video that got this channel going. Totally unexpected :)

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel no, i dont mean Hanon but Canons, the finger independent exercises. I have kunz canons but they are too tough. Edit: I think Schaffer's Sight reading book does contain good mind jumbling practice that I am looking for hand independence. It's amazing. I shouldnt have jumped directly to Kunz canons, it was too much for me. I am always too impatient, this is why i couldnt improve

I'm familiar with Taubman, but not never really learned it deeply. If any of those is working for you and you are happy with your current technique, this video is not helpful to you. If you clicked on this video because you want to explore other methods, that's a different story :)

His method is equivalent to Taubman and Leschetizky. If you review what both men actual wrote.

​@@AkiraIkegamiChannel I see -- thank you for clarifying. I clicked on it because I usually find many of your videos very helpful - :-) But this one seems very strange -- unlike anything I've seen or heard from any of the other main piano channels or actual teachers I have had; I have not seen this before. I think in the final analysis, the entire playing mechanism -- fingers, hand, wrists, arms, shoulders, torso, back, legs, feet -- are required to make many different adaptations (rotations, flexing, etc.) to accomodate rendering the music, so each isolated technic is only part of the entire spectrum of actions needed. No single movement is "THE" correct movement.

That's a very good way to put it. All the techniques I've heard of seem to be pointing to the same goal: most natural technique that'll allow you to play beautifully. I'm probably just seeing and explaining it differently.

@@velcroman11 If you could please refer me to the sections where they wrote that I would love to see it (and Dorothy Taubman was not a man ...) . I've not seen anywhere in either Taubman or Leschetizky where the wrist is raised as Akira is showing. Taubman is more about rotation along the axis of the arm, and Leschetizky is just about the opposite -- start from level wrist, drop wrist, catch and transfer the arm weight into the fingers, and return wrist to level -- not higher than.

Thank you, and good luck!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you very much!

It really depends on the student's situation. A good teacher will look at so many different aspects of the student's playing and decide the best course of action to get the most of your practice.

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel well, how would you divide 10 hours for yourself?

Thank you!!!

If you must go electric, I definitely recommend these hybrid piano series. I wish I could get the grand version, but unfortunately it didn't fit the violin studio and our use case didn't justify the cost.

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel If I go digital, then it’s the new Roland LX9. Beautiful piano sounds. Don’t like the Yamaha CFX sample

Yes. I have a few adult beginner students. I'll be happy to help!

@@AkiraIkegamiChannel Awesome - just checked your schedule and you are booked out a bit and I want weekly lessons. Do you have a waitlist? Thanks

Evening hours are filled with my physical studio students. The booking system should show morning and early afternoon available hours. If you don't see those hours, you may be looking at the time I'll be traveling. I can still do regular lessons while I'm traveling, but due to time zone and other complication, I'm disabling online booking for that period. If you are looking to schedule regular evening hours, I can put you on my waiting list. Either way, if you'd like to discuss scheduling in details, please email me at [email protected] Thank you.

It can be a similar finger independence issue, or there can be other things that may be causing it. It's hard to tell without seeing it, but I do have an online studio where you can show me what's going on and discuss solution: www.pianowithakira.com

Thank you, and welcome aboard!

These are good for typing, but not sure how good they will be for gaming.

Good luck!

ありがとうございます。 これもいつか動画にしたいなと思っているのですが、驚くことに、理由をかみ砕いて説明したり、やり方を順を追って指示したりする/できる先生ってあまりいないんです。うまい方は自分が自然にできていることなので、どう説明したらいいのかわからないのかもしれません。その点僕は落ちこぼれなので、教えるには有利なのかもしれません。

I haven't used the fancy touch screen yet. I'll experiment with it.