How to Play the Piano: Free Online Music Lessons for Beginners : Arpeggio Exercises for the Piano: Free Online Music Lessons for Beginners

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um, leaping is bad.
straight up, bad.

dont roll your wrist either, thats just as bad, or even worse.
contract your hand and slide your middle or fourth finger (in the case of left hand) over your thumb to reach the next note. that way your wrist stays perfectly straight as it should, and you're not taking tiny a break that hurts the music more than you think. note, it may take a while to get it right up to a good speed, but its the best way to do so.

This expert village shite really spams up the related videos for everthing lol, btw…examiners take away marks for that "pause"

Despite some kind of polemics with twisting or leaping the hand, I found this lesson somehow usefull. However, I miss some kind of numbers for each lesson, so we can attend to them in a coherent order.

I just realized he's talking about what's commonly called "thumb over" technique. It is physically impossible for the thumb muscles to move quickly enough to allow for playing arpeggios extremely quickly with complete legato (Though still possible at slightly slower speeds), so this is what you end up with.

wow, this helps ALOT thank! i was alwasy twisting my wrist o.o

Just C, E, and G up and down the piano.

Very nice! Liked this lesson. Post more!
Thanks!

you have to twist your wrist man if you want to get over your thumb this move must be done fast

I think you should completely ignore this lesson, you do want to roll your wrist over onto the next note, just try not to move you arm to much.

Leaping is odd…

this suks

except you probably don't want to "leap" like he says to do. If you finger it right, you shouldn't have to have a break or pause in your playing. Even most of my younger piano students can reach to connect the arpeggios and play them legato.

thx! im self tought and ben playing like this since the begining. didnt know if i was playing correctly with my left hand.thank you very much.

Good job with that exercise. Some of us are too fat to do this, but definitely a good workout. I will write about at tincap*com . Remember to replace the * with a .

u teach good but i cudn't really see the keys u were hitting =/

then don't watch.

Nice,

Good Job

TY MUCHLY!!

Leaping is odd, I've never heard of it before and did not practice my arps that way (shameless plug alerg - one of my videos here has me playing a fast arp ). Still, these videos and youtube in general are all great, just a few years ago you'd have to "scavenge" old keyboard magazines for this sort of stuff :).

your theory and basic idea is correct but you must
use your writs
go to a music store and buy this book and follow what it says to do when practicing arpeggios
called
HANON THE VIRTUOSO PIANIST IN 60 EXERCISES
BY THE WAY YOUR WAY OF PLAYING IS ONLY REALLY GOOD IN THE CLASSICAL AND FOR ONLY SOME ARPEGGIOS
KEEP PRACTICING YOU HAVE ALOT TO LEARN

its not legato enonught for me, but good job!

Good job. I like the way you explain everything. Very clear. I think the "leaping" practice is one way to practice the Arpeggio. The only thing is not to make the staccato sound when we move the hand to next position.

you are a bad teacher

I hate hateful comments..this guy is extremely talented and his hair & shirt are fine..his voice is pleasant and masculine..I like his method & he seems cool to me..so there

He has the correct fingering, but I agree that he should not be "leaping" or lifting his hand. If he was crossing over properly with the third finger (ascending) and thumb (descending) he wouldn't have those breaks, which are not part of legato playing.