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Pianimals Pointers

Pianimals Pointers Video Tutorials.

Pianimals Pointers, a group of exercises to advance your pupil's playing skills easily, effectively and quickly.

Pianimals Pointers has photos and abbreviated exercises but no music.

Do the exercises well

Pianimals Pointers offers effective, quick solutions to the technical problems that crop up most often in beginning piano lessons. A video transmits the essence of an exercise better than the printed page, so we've created short tutorials for each Pointers chapter. Watch them below, or visit them at this YouTube Playlist.

Pianimals Pointers Video Introduction
Basic Exercise: “The Monster” - draw flat fingertips towards heel
Variation 1: Floating a loose finger into the key
Variation 2: Oppose thumb to fingers; straighten thumb so all of it moves, even the metacarpal
The Ouranga-Thumb
Variation 3: Standing
Variation 4: Sliding teaches hand the nice, taut feel somewhere in between limpness and stiffness
Variation 5: Poke to exaggerate structural security
Variation 6: Transfer the weight from one standing finger to another
Variation 7: Rolling hand to move arm laterally
The loly-poly Sleepy Bear
Variation 8: The Fingers Leap as the Legs Leap
Variation 9: Lying and rolling – preparation for large leaps
Variation 10: Hooking the fingertip
Even an alligator can have a well-structured hand
Variation 11: Flicking fingertip under
Variation 12: 5-finger overholding exercise
A skating sloth is like a sliding bird beak