Contrary Motion Piano Song Book

Book info: Contrary Motion Piano Song Book (Paperback, 37 pages) – National Library Board Singapore, 2022. Language: English.

Contrary Motion Piano Song Book is a unique technique enabling novice piano players to learn and master the complexities of lefthand playing in a natural manner. When the right and left hands move on the piano in opposite directions to each other, they are moving in contrary motion. For example, if the righthand is descending, then the lefthand is ascending.This teaching method trains the hands to move separately while working on skills such as basic hand independence, finger and spatial coordination, muscle memory, finger symmetry and aural awareness. It also introduces the ear to harmony.This book is intended to complement existing keyboard/piano course work for those studying the instrument. In the classroom setting, this is a good introductory course for beginners to establish hand position and dexterity in the fingers.