How the Hands are Used in Playing the Piano

How the Hands are Used in Playing the Piano

If you know how to type, you know that you need to use a certain finger to press each key on the keyboard. Similarly, when you are playing piano, you will use certain fingers to press specific keys, depending on the hand position.

As you start learning the correct fingers to use, it is helpful to think of each of your fingers as having a numerical value. The standard method is to divide your fingers into your right hand (R.H.) and left hand (L.H.), and assign a number from 1 to 5 to each finger, starting from the thumb (1) and finishing on the pinky (5).

As you work through my lessons, you’ll need to know which number corresponds to which finger, so that when I ask you to play a key with R.H. 2, you’ll know to play the key with the index finger of your right hand.

Since this numbering system is standard, you will find that some pieces of particularly difficult piano music will have a number (like R.H. 2) marked above certain notes that are difficult to finger.

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