Piano Technique: Six Degrees of Freedom

Lesson Goal: To understand what it means to play the piano using all six degrees of freedom… and how it enables you to play like an artist…

Six Degrees of Freedom YouTube

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Takeaways

If you want to play with freedom and ease, you must play using all six degrees of freedom any never allow any of these six degrees of freedom to get stuck or frozen. If you don’t use all six degrees of freedom, tension will set in immediately. BTW, the finger training school of piano technique is a musical dead end because it encourages students to constrain, not to liberate, these degrees of freedom.

Cultivating the habit of playing using all six degrees of freedom requires you to use all, not some of, your piano-playing body parts and to keep them all moving at all times. Not sometimes. Not most of the time. All the time. (especially in between the notes!) The great news here is that the kinds of motions we are talking about are perfectly natural and do not require any special talent. Key point: As you go from musical place to the next, think and move in flowing musical CURVES!

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