Introduction: How to Play the Piano With Both Hands
Fixed split keyboards are single-piece keyboards, much like the traditional keyboards. With fixed split keyboards, however, the keys are usually positioned in waves so your hands will rest more naturally on them. As the name implies, the position and width of the break or slant of the keyboard is not adjustable. “Full keyboard” mode eliminates the single LED split point, indicating that the player is no longer required to separate the hands with right hand played above the light and the left hand below the light. Players are now able (and encouraged) to play ANYWHERE on the piano keyboard. For starters, there’s the Floating Split Point. It intelligently moves the split point on a split keyboard Patch to respond to what you’re playing. Start walking a bass line up the keyboard, and the split point moves up so the bass doesn’t suddenly become some other sound when you get into the higher notes. Intuitive Controls In addition to selecting piano Voices, you can use the Layer function to overlay Voices, or the Split function to play different Voices with the left and right hands. A range of functions such as Transpose, Tuning, Pedal and acoustic settings can be configured easily and intuitively from the touch screen. As someone with a piano background, you'd probably want to get one with a weighted keyboard. Or, you could just get a digital piano with built in speakers, an all-in-one, and spend time with that. For digital pianos, I'd check out Yamaha and Roland. Incidentally, a digital piano could also be used to trigger virtual instruments in GB via MIDI.
Learning how to play the piano with both hands together can seem like a bit of a puzzle to figure out!
Can you pat your tummy while you rub your head at the same time? Or do the reverse?
Maybe not the first time, but after a few tries, you can!
This is just what it is like when we start playing with both hands together on our piano keyboards. Each hand is doing its own thing but at the same time.
Playing with both hands together is one of the biggest challenges any new piano player faces. Once this technique is mastered, however, a whole new door of music and learning opens up and your piano playing will move into an exciting new level.
Let's look at some important things to do when you're first starting to play with both of your hands together on the piano.
Step 1: Take One Hand at a Time
When we look at a piece of piano music, we see that the top and bottom lines have different notes in them.
- The top notes are the Treble Clef notes and these are played with our right hands.
- The bottom notes are the Bass Clef notes and these are played with our left hands.
Ultimately, we end up playing both the top and bottom lines of music at the same time.
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In order to do this, though, we need to break down the music and learn one hand at a time.
Start with the top line which is the Treble Clef line and is played with your right hand.
- Make sure you know how many beats you are counting in each measure and what your key signature is.
- Read through your notes verbally at least once before you start playing them on the piano.
- Play through the Treble notes on your keyboard next and do this several times until you feel you know the music.
Next, do the same steps with the bottom line which is the Bass Clef and is played with your left hand.
TIP:Don't try to play either line faster than you can correctly. This will have an effect on your ability to play both lines of music together. Remember, you can always speed up your tempo later on, after you've mastered this technique in a slower tempo.
Are you ready to try both hands together? Let's see what you need to do first in the next step.
Step 2: Take One Measure at a Time
Next, we're going to break the music down a different way from how we did it to learn each line of music separately.
Take just the first measure. In this example, we have 4 quarter notes in the Treble Clef along with a whole note in the Bass Clef.
If you want to review each hand separately before trying them together that's fine; do that as much as you need to.
Now, put your finger down on the Bass Clef C note at the same time you put your Middle C finger down in the Treble Clef and hold the Bass note while you play each note in the treble clef throughout the measure, for 4 counts.
- Notice that you don't have to lift or move your left-hand note even though you do, in your right-hand notes.
Play this measure with both hands together as many times as you need to to get secure with the notes and rhythm.
See how much easier it is when you break it all down into smaller sections?
Now that you've gotten the first measure learned, move on to the second measure and do the same process.
Slow down your tempo if you're having any difficulties.
When you've worked through the first 2 measures separately, try playing them together and keep doing that until you can play them as a group of measures comfortably.
Keep doing this throughout the entire piece until you are able to play all of the notes in both hands together.
TIP: Be aware of where rhythmic and note patterns change from measure to measure as this will help you play them all together smoothly and easily.
Now it's time to put all of this together so you can be sure that you're doing everything correctly! Come Practice With Me in the Final Step!
Step 3: Come Practice With Me!
This quick video tutorial takes you through the steps we've gone over here using the same sample that is in the images and it will reinforce your learning as you play along with me and see just how easy it can be to play your piano with both hands together.
Once you've mastered this skill in easier music, you'll be able to move on to playing both hands together faster and smoother with more difficult music, in no time.
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You are here: Reference > Dialog Boxes > H > Hand Width Split dialog box
How to get there
- Choose File > Open, and select MIDI File from the File Type pop-up list.
- Double-click the name of a MIDI file you want transcribed.
- In the Import MIDI File Options dialog box, click Set Track-to-Staff List.
- In the Track/Channel Mapping for Staves dialog box, click the first row of information you haven’t yet filled in.
- Click Hand Width.
What it does
This dialog box lets you transcribe the contents of the sequencer tracks you’ve specified into two staves, splitting the notes according to the width of your hands, based on the numbers you enter in this dialog box. The advantage of this method of splitting your performance into right- and left-hand parts (as compared with the Fixed split point option) is that Finale follows your hands as they move up and down the keyboard, eliminating the need to specify a single, fixed split point—provided there’s always a large enough gap between the hands for Finale to know which hand is which.
- Starting Right Hand Position • Starting Left Hand Position • Listen. These text boxes let you tell Finale where your right and left hands are at the beginning of the track(s) to be transcribed. The numbers are synthesizer key numbers (middle C is key number 60), and they specify the starting position of your leftmost finger of each hand.
Instead of calculating key numbers and entering them in these boxes, just click the Listen button, then play the note or chord that begins the left-hand (or right-hand) part of the track you’re transcribing. Finale automatically enters the key number into the appropriate text box (in which you’ve clicked the cursor).
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- Hand Width: • Listen. In this text box, enter the widest interval, in half steps, that either hand played during your performance. Instead of calculating the number of half steps, click Listen to MIDI, and play the widest interval. The checkbox is no longer selected, and the Hand Width text box displays the width of the interval.
- OK • Cancel. Click OK to confirm, or Cancel to discard, the hand width settings you’ve just made. You return to the Track/Channel Mappingdialog box.
See Also:
Track/Channel Mapping
Track/Channel Mapping to Staves
Import MIDI File Options
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