Any tips for getting non-dominant hand to play the right keys?

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JimTH
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Any tips for getting non-dominant hand to play the right keys?

Post by JimTH » Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:18 am

I'm right-hand dominant so starting out things seemed to naturally fall into place. Now that I'm practicing 5 fingers left-handed everything seems unnatural. Pinky is low tones, thumb is higher; leftmost is number 5, rightmost is number 1.
Any suggestions for getting my brain wrapped around this or is it simply practice, practice, practice?
Jim

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Re: Any tips for getting non-dominant hand to play the right keys?

Post by FlatPanda » Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:36 am

Practice. Practice. And maybe a bit more practice, afterwards a bit more practice does not hurt.

Apart from that: patience. A lot. When the courses open for reading the sheet music, or the one octave scales: do them. Slowly. With patience. Afterwards you could have a look at the Hanon exercises.

What is, however, the most important: keep is light. It should make fun for you. It's Playground Sessions. You won't be playing Liszt in 10 months ;) But some of the Rookie arrangements (even the freely available ones, which are mostly well known western classical pieces) make a lot of fun to play, some even without accompaniments.

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