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hi,

just registered in this forum, and I wish to thanks everybody to help in finding the right answers to almost every my "piano" questions.

I'm a adult piano player for fun only, no need particular skill, so good experience only chords some arpeggios played reading tabs (just like a rythm guitarist do).
During the last three months I drive my attention to a deeper technical approach and I studied more theory and played at least one hour at day.

My big problem is my difficulty to give different orders to my hands with good coordination, like Blues for example, the left hand play a solid rythm while the right a good solo.

Could someone please help in find the right way to develope this skill without hire a human teacher.

thanks

P.S. I hope to well explained my problem with a non native language.

Hello and welcome to the forum.

My teacher always told me to practice very slowly to get the coordination down. Then once you get it you can play it up to speed. I found this to be very helpful.

Also, I found it took less time to get the coordination down by doing it slowly first than if I tried to play at speed.

I hope this helps.
Good Luck.

Work up each hand speed individually (hands separate), to the point where you can play them faster than the normal tempo. But make sure that you are thinking the notes for the other hand while doing hands separate.

Then you can combine hands, and as Kymber said go very deliberately at first. If you go to fast then you will end up practicing in mistakes.

The other thing that I've found for me, is that I can't ever get the hands to function independently. Instead, I have to treat both hands as a unit. That is, I'm sending a single mental command down to both hands, similar to how you would play a cord in just one hand (that is, I treat both clefs as if I'm playing a two-handed chord). Whereas others seem to be able to put one hand on auto-pilot while concentrating on the other hand.

Friend, I have exactly the same problem with blues. No problems with others kinds of playing. With blues, I trip up every time.

continuing with DerekP's advice...after you've mastered your LH through Hands separate practice, start distracting it with your RH. Maybe play only one note...then two...then vary the notes...then vary the time. Then read a book. Then talk to your family. Then watch TV. All while your left hand is cranking out the same pattern.

It takes awhile for the subconcious to take over so I wouldn't do it for hours a day. Just make it part of regular practice.

I record one hand, then play it back while accompanying with other hand. I played accordion as a kid, so my right hand is more advanced than my left. So I always record the right hand part and practice playing the left while playing back the right. Then I immediately play both hands together and it seems much easier to combine the two. I do this for relatively short sections of a piece, maybe 2 or 3 lines.

thanks everybody,
in fact day by day exercise lead to a good progression, I need more and more practice before an approach to Blues.

So it's better to finish my Adult course book before.

If you're right handed, your right hand will be stronger than your left. So what you need to do is work on exercises that will strengthen your left hand. Hanon has a lot of exercises that work the right and left hand simultaneously, but you can do those exercises just with the left hand, which will give you a lot of flexibility. Also, I'm working on Czerny's 24 studies for the left hand -- where the left hand carries the melody. It's really helped with the coordination of both hands.