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Finding Your Ideal Hand Position
Practice Notes Technique tips: Aim to start each practice session with a good, natural hand position. Swing your relaxed hands towards the keyboard or let your hand float upwards like a 'puppet on a string'. Keep a fairly straight line between the back of your hand and forearm. This wrist position will become the midpoint of your movement. Aim to keep your wrist flexible as you practise. Keep your forearm mostly in line with your third finger. Avoid the middle-C hand position –...Sign in to view if you have purchased access to this content or see purchase options below.
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Penelope Roskell
Penelope Roskell is equally renowned as a performer of international calibre and as an inspirational teacher and professor of piano at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She is the author of The Complete Pianist: From Healthy Technique to Natural Artistry and is the leading UK specialist in healthy piano playing. She holds a clinic at the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine for pianists with injuries and her guide to preventing and recovering from injury is available here.
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