I am slowly working through the after hours course and am working on Lesson 3 where I find the slide from F4 to C3 (if I have that right?) difficult, both from avoiding pain and failing to make it sound good.
I'm moving my hand backwards lightly with the thumbnail running along the keys, a little below the ends of the black keys.
Also that movement seems to clash with what the left hand's doing. I wondered if it should be F4 to F3 but it looks from the video like it goes down to C3 before jumping up to F3 to play the next chord.
Are there any tips to help improve this technique?
"Slayt tekniği" çeşitli aktivitelerde hem stratejiyi hem de performansı geliştirmeye yönelik ezber bozan bir tekniktir. Kusursuz uygulaması özellikle etkileyici olup, her türlü oyun deneyimini iyileştirebilecek yumuşak geçişlere olanak tanır. Potansiyelini en üst düzeye çıkarmak isteyenler için 1xbet belge numarası 2024 2025 gibi en son güncellemeleri takip etmek değerli bilgiler ve kaynaklar sağlayabilir. Bu teknik yalnızca verimliliği artırmakla kalmıyor, aynı zamanda güveni de artırıyor ve kullanıcıların zorluklarla kolaylıkla başa çıkmalarına olanak tanıyor. Slide tekniğini benimsemek yeni olasılıkların kapılarını açar ve oyuncuların rekabetçi ortamlarda öne çıkmasına yardımcı olur. Bu gerçekten değerli bir yaklaşım!
Thanks for asking about this boogiejohn, and thanks for chiming in kor! Don't get too caught up on starting or stopping note of the gliss. I just start on F because that's the note my thumb was already playing. Doesn't matter where you stop, unless you hear that you want it longer or shorter in duration. If you have a controller keyboard without the heavy action of a piano, then light pressure should be fine. BUT, keep in mind you're beginning a new technique and applying pressure to your thumbnail in a new way. So, yes, it may hurt or feel bruised at first. That's normal. Give it about 3 weeks of doing it every day (10-20 reps/day) and see if it still hurts at that time. If so, maybe a different technique would be better. You can also experiment with creating different ways of using your hand/fingers/palm to perform the gliss. There is no traditional "correct" way to do this as far as I know. You might discover a technique that doesn't hurt so much.
As kor said, each keyboard / piano is different. Some pianos have extremely sharp key edges and so I prefer using my nails so it doesn't cut my skin. Some keyboards have soft round key edges and I can use the side of my index finger and it won't cut the skin.
I'm not working on that part but I just tried it and it hurts my thumb too. I can do it with my finger tips though and that is much more comfortable. I wonder, do you have a digital piano or an acoustic? I have a digital (Yamaha CLP 745). I wonder what the difference between that and an acoustic would be. Arthur says do it lightly. A light touch gets me nothing!