Touch and Dynamics in Your Piano Playing

Good morning. This is Duane and today I’d like to touch on the aspect of touch and volume, the importance of touch and volume in your piano playing. It’s such an easy thing to do and most piano players don’t take advantage of it.

I went to a concert last night with a guy that I greatly admired and it reminded me again that you can do so much with just touch and volume even if you’re not a great piano player. For example I could play like this. Now you see all the contrast there? I really slapped it on this. So, don’t be afraid to play loud once in a while, but what you don’t want to do is play loud all the time and you don’t want to play soft all the time. You notice I played loud for a bit and then I got to this section. It’s a lot different. Okay?

That’s something that any piano player, any musician can do. It’s very easy whether you’re a beginner or whether you are super advanced. Just use a lot of contrast in touch and volume. See you again tomorrow with a little tip like that. If you’re not signed up for our free tips come on over to playpiano.com and sign up. We’ll see you then. Bye, bye for now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2t1qD97RVM
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