Warming up your fingers at Piano

In this blog post I am planning to walk you through some important finger warmup exercises with a new way to practice scales. We gonna use an F major scale and we gonna practice it in quarter notes, eighths and triplets using the same metronome marking. The quarters for one octave, the eighths for two octaves and triplets for three octaves. We’ll set our metronome to 80 beats per minute. Below I have given both treble and bass clef staves for the key of F.





Start with quarter notes one octave on an F major scale in your right hand. Now play it in eighth notes for two octaves. Now play it in triplets for three octaves. The point is to start with quarters then go to eighths and into triplets using the same metronome marking.

Now try it in your left hand. Start with quarter notes for one octave. Then go to eighth notes for two octaves. We won’t go for triplets in left hand for now.

Now try to put the hands together which is bit tricky since we have to play different fingering there. Start with quarter notes and then try with eighths notes for two octaves hands together.

If you have a hard time putting the hands together go back to the hand that’s hanging you up and reexamine the shape of the scale you are playing and fingering underneath it.

Now you have warmed up in the key of F. You are ready to start practicing your melody now.

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