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Right Hand Piano Techniques
Rating: 4.2 out of 5(3 ratings)
42 students

Right Hand Piano Techniques

Right Hand Development Made Easy
Created byJosh Cook
Last updated 1/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Add idea and techniques to your right hand repertoire
  • How to gain speed with your right hand
  • How to gain strength with your right hand
  • Expand the rhythmic, harmonic and melodic ideas for your right hand
  • Learn new concepts to help with your compositions, solos and general keyboard performance

Course content

3 sections13 lectures1h 24m total length
  • Function of the Right Hand2:30

    It's important to know your right hand's role as a pianist, so let's start with covering this topic in detail.

  • Right Hand Warm-ups6:39

    Here's some simple warmups you can do to get your right hand ready for the techniques to come.
    *see attached pdf

Requirements

  • You should know your basic major and minor chord shapes
  • Have basic knowledge of notes on the piano/keyboard

Description

In this right handed world, pianists are expected to have strong, fast, and diversified right hand parts.  This course is designed to give the student plenty of right handed techniques that range in difficulty, but are all very obtainable even for beginners!

From setting the correct rhythmic pulse, to lineating chords and breaking up blocked chords we will cover plenty of different approaches.  So, whether you feel you need to improve your rhythmic confidence, or if you'd just like to extrapolate your chord progressions into something more impressive, this course has something for you!

We will cover:

- functions of the right hand

- right hand warm-ups
- pulses

- 1 and 2 octave arpeggios

- ostinatos

- playing in octaves

- top notes - thumb

- 3 note lineations

- pedal tones

- inversions


There is also a sprinkle of left hand discussion when the right handed technique is easily complimented with a simple left hand addition.

So if you're feeling stuck with your right hand parts, and you're looking to break out of the usual devices that you play at the piano, then this course might just be perfect for you!  So whether you're looking to add speed to your right hand, strengthen it, or simply have more ideas to work with, I've got you covered with this course ALL on right handed techniques.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner pianists
  • Intermediate level pianists
  • Left handed pianists hoping to improve their right hand
  • Any keyboardist hoping to improve the speed and strength of their right hand
  • Music producers hoping to get more proficient on the keyboard
  • Composers looking for diversified right hand approaches