I've been playing piano for about 13/14 years now, and I never disciplined myself to be able to play independently with both hands. (right hand: melody, left hand: accompaniment) I can do rhythmic chords and arpeggios with my left while my right is doi

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Anonymous 09/23/14 (Tue) 20:52:01 No.45

I've been playing piano for about 13/14 years now, and I never disciplined myself to be able to play independently with both hands. (right hand: melody, left hand: accompaniment)

I can do rhythmic chords and arpeggios with my left while my right is doing the melody without thinking about it, but that's pretty much it when it.

I've tried the practice of playing each part with each hand individually until it becomes second nature and putting them together in the end, but once I try to really play with both together I find myself not being to put the left on auto-pilot and keep focusing on what it's doing.

Advice? What do you other pianists do to discipline yourself to be able to put the left on auto pilot (past the basics like arpeggios and chords obviously)? Hoping there are other ways of going about it that I haven't thought of cause I want to start learning classical pieces.

Mellowth!!Eo4ylrVdfk 09/23/14 (Tue) 21:06:01 No.46

>>45
Only thing I can suggest is practice, practise, and little more practise for good measure.

Try learning songs that aren't too complex, but where both hands aren't playing the same thing. Also, look up some hand independents technique tutorials, and practise a few of those once in a while.

As a drummer, I like to play with metric modulation, so I'd play 4/4 on my right and 3/4 with my left, then switch them over. But that's more rhythmic rudiments that I've converted to piano, rather then proper piano techniques.

Intern 09/23/14 (Tue) 23:18:30 No.47

>>46

Yeah I do need to just buckle down and practice a lot more than I have been.

I mainly learned hymns and contemporary pieces when i took lessons (welcome to the bible belt), and since then on my own I've just done jazz (mainly ragtime) and my own improv'd style. However I'd like to put my piano to real use and learn classical pieces.

Been working on this piece as a starter, which is going alright but the left hand has been a bitch to put with the right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtIW2r1EalM

I just feel like shit 'cause as someone who has been playing since 6 years old, I -should- be able to do classical pieces fairly well, but lack of real discipline kept me fiddling with jazzy stuff that doesn't require proper technique.

thnx for the advice

Intern 09/24/14 (Wed) 00:47:19 No.48

>>45
Same boat as you OP, I just have only been playing for 6 years though. I'm assuming you can play simple pieces like canon and D and stuff that mostly plays off of chords? That's basically how far I can go with the left hand.

Intern 09/24/14 (Wed) 00:59:37 No.49

>>48

yeah I can play stuff like that and jazz/ragtime tunes that only have the left hand playing rhythmic stuff and subtle stuff.

I mainly do my own stuff, tbh. Improvisation, fiddling with very ambient tunes, and minimal songs.