uncoupling the left hand from right hand
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ghostrider007
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are there any lessons for teaching the brain to play on rythm with left hand while playing a diffent rythm with the right hand?
I'd suggest trying the exercises presented here:
http://www.pianogogo.com/#/hand-gym/4561842184
I think you are better off working without the third element of watching the Synthesia screen as you work on hand independence.
If it makes you feel any better, everyone seems to struggle with this. I don't think you are likely to develop true hand independence where your hands behave like they belong to different people. I find it more like developing a greater variety of coordinated movements between the hands.
While you have two hands, you only have one brain. At any given moment it either says move your left hand, right hand, both, or neither. (Oddly I don't find I have much problem with which fingers, just which hand.) The challenge is to empower rapid at will switching through patterns of those four basic movements. For example, the first exercises in the above video are a both-left-left-neither pattern in a 1-&-2-3 rhythm.
I think it helps if you can be relaxed in your playing so that you don't have a lot of adrenaline in your system wiring your hands with a hair trigger. I find it easier if your hands do nothing until you really want them to rather than trying to stop them from doing something until it is time.
You'll find lots of short phrases similar to the above exercises when you are learning a piece of music. The Synthesia Learning Pack looping features lets you work on such phrases over and over to develop the coordination needed for the phrases that give you trouble. As time goes on, you'll have more and more coordination patterns under your belt and you'll need to learn fewer new ones when learning a new piece of music.
http://www.pianogogo.com/#/hand-gym/4561842184
I think you are better off working without the third element of watching the Synthesia screen as you work on hand independence.
If it makes you feel any better, everyone seems to struggle with this. I don't think you are likely to develop true hand independence where your hands behave like they belong to different people. I find it more like developing a greater variety of coordinated movements between the hands.
While you have two hands, you only have one brain. At any given moment it either says move your left hand, right hand, both, or neither. (Oddly I don't find I have much problem with which fingers, just which hand.) The challenge is to empower rapid at will switching through patterns of those four basic movements. For example, the first exercises in the above video are a both-left-left-neither pattern in a 1-&-2-3 rhythm.
I think it helps if you can be relaxed in your playing so that you don't have a lot of adrenaline in your system wiring your hands with a hair trigger. I find it easier if your hands do nothing until you really want them to rather than trying to stop them from doing something until it is time.
You'll find lots of short phrases similar to the above exercises when you are learning a piece of music. The Synthesia Learning Pack looping features lets you work on such phrases over and over to develop the coordination needed for the phrases that give you trouble. As time goes on, you'll have more and more coordination patterns under your belt and you'll need to learn fewer new ones when learning a new piece of music.
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ghostrider007
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thank you ,thank you ,for explaining this to me ,it makes alot of sense ,thank you for the site for the exercises ,
Take a look at this topic:
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5048
That is another good exercise for uncoupling the hands.
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5048
That is another good exercise for uncoupling the hands.