2. Lateral thumb exercises
Through this section of finger exercises, children can understand that the thumb can also do left and right swinging movements, which is the thumb and other fingers are different. Learning this movement can bring great convenience to the future training of long arpeggios, rapid hand movement, palm stretching and other piano playing skills. Note: The thumb is pressed against the lid of the piano in a lateral motion, as wide as possible, to prepare the hand for the transfer of scales.
"The little wiper": build a little house with your hands, gently place your hand on the lid, and swing your 1st finger from side to side against the lid like a car.
3. Thumb rotation
When practicing this finger exercise, you have to find the point where your thumb touches the keys, that is, where your thumb is placed on the lid and touches the lid. The wrist and arm rotate accordingly as you do the rotations. This prepares you for the intensive and fast movements of piano playing. Note: It is important to find the point where the thumb touches the keys, in order to shift the hand position for playing scales.
"Push the pegs" The children make a top motion by reversing the 1st finger downwards and rotating it from side to side as if it were a peg.
The practice of wrist dexterity
Wrist dexterity is very important for piano playing. From the point of view of playing technique, whether it is the beginning of non-concerted playing, or later scales, arpeggios and fast running, as well as diatonic, chordal and octave playing, all need to be coordinated with the wrist. Musically speaking, the wrist is essential for the completion of every phrase and the formation of every tone. It is inappropriate for children to practice the wrist alone when they have problems. It wastes time and makes them bored. Here are six wrist exercises to help children learn to move their wrists in different directions in a relaxed and enjoyable game, and to prepare them for further refinement of their piano playing.
1. Longitudinal wrist exercises
This exercise prepares children for non-contrapuntal, falling and falling legato techniques. Note: Observe carefully the longitudinal movement of the wrist. There is a lot of space between the lift - flatten - fall of the wrist, which can be divided into five levels: lift is the highest point of the wrist, where the fingers almost leave the keyboard; there is another point in between the lift and the flatten; flatten is the point where the wrist and the fingers are in the same water surface; flatten is the point in between the flatten and the fall; and the fall is the lowest point of the wrist. Concentrate on the movement of the wrist, shoulders, elbows and other parts of the body as much as possible to relax.
? Elevator? Children, please build a small house with your hands, with the tips of your fingers hanging over the edge of the piano keyboard. Wrists do like an elevator: up - lift, center - level, down - drop.
2, Lateral Wrist Exercises
This exercise prepares the hands for arpeggios and for the quick movement of the hand position. Note: Watch carefully the lateral movement of the wrist, flatten the wrist, move from small to large, but keep the shape of the hand, the rest of the arm as relaxed as possible, the shoulders, body and arms do not sway from side to side.
? Swing dance? Children, please build a small house with your hands and hang the tips of your fingers on the edge of the piano keyboard. Wrists make horizontal movements to the left - right.
3. Wrist rotation exercises
In doing this exercise it is recommended that parents make a small prop, cut a hole in the center of the newspaper and put it on the children's hands. Let them draw along the hole in the circle, you can also prepare two different sizes of props, so that children can be very happy to practice, unknowingly in the middle of the circle of the big circle are well practiced. In the future, different music direction, keyboard position combinations can be used freely. Note: Wrist circles should be drawn as round as possible, wrist and arm as relaxed as possible.
? Drawing circles? Children, please use your hands to build a small house, finger tips hanging on the edge of the piano keyboard. Wrist in a clockwise direction to draw a circle. Wrists press counterclockwise to car circle.
4. Wrist exercises for intervals and chords
This finger exercise can be used as a preparatory exercise for chords in fourths, fifths, sixths and octaves. Note: Keep the hand in the shape of an apple while moving the wrist slowly. The range is from small to large, and when you get good at it, you can speed it up and make it more difficult: small - small movements; medium - medium, the most natural movements; large - the largest movements.
? Take the apple? Children, please extend both hands, palms facing up, like holding a large apple, wrists inward - outward movement. When the movement is skillful you can turn your hands upside down, palm down, and gently bob your palms up and down.
5. Wrist turning movement exercises
This section of the finger exercise can exercise the wrist turning movement, for scales, arpeggios, fast running and fast change of hand position and other methods of playing preparation. Note: Keep your fingers together while drawing circles. Be flexible and a little faster when practicing.
? Somersault? Children, please use your hands to build a small house, wrist against the lid, five fingers up, the right hand in the air counterclockwise circle, the left hand in the air clockwise car circle, every circle, the wrist moved forward an inch, like the Monkey King in the air somersaults.
6. Palm stretching exercises
This section of the finger exercise exercise of the palm of the thumb and little finger spreading muscle, thumb and little finger flexor muscle,; palm short muscle and little finger short training flexor muscle, can be for the piano playing special skills and special fingering for paving practice. Note: the palm of the hand stretching action should be large; stretch - completely open, as wide as possible; shrink - completely closed, the 1st finger touches the 5th finger.
? Archers? Palm on the lid, open - close, open - close again. Like an archworm crawling happily.
Five hand coordination exercises
Many parents let their children learn the piano in order to develop the children's intelligence, so that the children become smarter. Because playing the piano with the brain to think, with the eyes to see, with the ears to hear, with the mouth to sing, with two hands of the ten fingertips to play different keyboard, but also with both feet to pedal. When children are able to do so many things at the same time, their right and left brains have been able to use both at the same time and harmonize. So the child becomes very intelligent. But achieving such perfect coordination and control requires a long, rigorous and gradual training process. I would like to introduce four games that you can play when you are tired of practicing the piano.
1. Hammer and Rag
When playing the piano, you often encounter this situation: the two hands perform different music, one hand should be coherent and singable. The other hand has to be jumpy and elastic, which can be difficult. In this game, the hammer represents jumping, and the rag represents legato. With the ability to switch between the two hands, this will not be a problem when you play the piano in the future.
The left hand clenches the fist to make a hammer to the left leg, the right hand opens to make a rag in the right leg wipe, super knock the faster, the faster the wipe, the faster the order, said change on the change. The first thing you need to do is to change it, but you can't mess it up.
2. A shot to hit six
When you first start to do this game, you will always feel that your fingers are slow to respond, do not listen, the old error, this game as long as the management of the 2 fingers and 5 fingers, to find the replacement of the law, it is very easy to do.
The left hand to make a gun, the right hand to make six, a gun to hit six, left and right to take turns to change.
3. Twist and turn
This game is a flexible, coordinated exercise for the 1st and 2nd fingers, as well as the left and right hands. The other fingers are relaxed and bend naturally during the exercise.
The 2nd finger of the left hand points to the 1st finger of the right hand, and the 2nd finger of the right hand points to the 1st finger of the left hand, point point point point point. Faster and faster, like anesthetic twisting and turning.
4. Boxing Warm-up
In the practice of playing polyphonic works will find that the melody of the piece is not only in the right hand in the treble clef, and sometimes in the left hand in the bass clef. In this case, we need to strengthen the intensity of the theme in different parts of the voice, adjust the volume, change the key touch, rich tone. This game exercises the children's left fist or right fist at the same time exercise the children's brain quick reaction and body coordination ability.
Like a boxing match, lunge and hold your fist ready, call the right hand - the right hand out of the fist to collect the left hand - reset. Call the left hand - left hand out to collect the right hand - reset.