Natural Arm Motion at the Piano: Arm Weight and Weight Transfer
When playing the piano, it's essential to feel naturalness and ease in your arm motions, through arm weight and weight transfer. This video is about the concepts of arm weight and weight transfer as applied to piano technique. The video has three parts: first I explain the concept of weight transfer, then I demonstrate weight transfer in action, and I finish with some exercises to help you get started with weight transfer in your own playing. This video is a follow-up video to my video on ARM WEIGHT. If you haven't seen it, you can go back and watch it here: • Arm Weight Exercises at the Piano (5 Steps... 0:00 Introduction 0:23 Relaxation is only part of the story 2:23 What is weight transfer? 3:51 Weight transfer in action 4:13 Bach: Prelude in C Minor, WTC Book I, BWV 847 5:07 Debussy: Arabesque No. 1 6:26 Five steps to learn weight transfer 7:44 How to do the “drop and hoist” motion 9:28 Hanon Exercise #1 10:31 The role of the fingers in weight transfer 12:14 Dohnányi Exercise #12 👉DOWNLOAD MY FREE PDF TECHNIQUE PRACTICE COMPANION https://thepianoprof.com/PracticeComp... Resources used in this video: Dohnányi Essential Finger Exercises: https://amzn.to/3qixSLz 👉OTHER VIDEOS IN THIS SERIES: Series Intro: 5 Foundations of Piano Technique Overview: • 5 FOUNDATIONS OF PIANO TECHNIQUE: The Top ... Hand Position: • Hand Position at the Piano: 5 Foundations ... Finger Alignment: • Finger Alignment at the Piano: 5 Foundatio... How to Stop Over-Curving Your Fingers: • How to Stop Over-Curving Your Fingers at t... Forearm Rotation at the Piano: • Forearm Rotation at the Piano [Foundations... Arm Weight: • Arm Weight Exercises at the Piano (5 Steps... ------------------------------------------------- Keep in touch! 👉 SIGN UP for my weekly newsletter: https://thepianoprof.com/subscribe 👉 SUBSCRIBE to ThePianoProf Youtube channel to get new videos from me every week: https://bit.ly/3EzcUN0 👉 Visit my blog at https://www.ThePianoProf.com 👉 Visit my performance YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2YurqGd 👉 Visit my website: https://www.kateboyd.com/about 👉 Follow me on Instagram: / kateboydpianist 👉 CONTACT ME: Leave a note in the comments or visit https://www.kateboyd.com/contact
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