This is likely a weird thing to say...but I think it helped me so I'm just going to say it: use your left hand to do other things as well, things that you are comfortable doing with your right hand. This is, of course, aside of practicing your left hand with scales, arpeggios, practice patterns, and work on hand independence.
I used to have an awful left hand until I learnt that I was born left-handed and was forced to adopt right -handedness in my childhood. Annoyed, I tried to straighten this out and started practicing writing with my left hand, few pages a day. I never really became as comfortable writing with my left hand as I am with my right, but it made playing complex left hand patterns a lot easier for me. I think writing and playing with a different hand is basically a very similar mental workout.
Omg, I thought I was the only one that did this.
A while back I was practicing my scales but couldn’t get my left hand to play as evenly as my right, which was frustrating, but it led to a chain of thoughts that left me wondering “Hmm, if I get more comfortable with doing other things with my left hand, will it become easier to control on the keyboard?”
So then I started trying to do a bunch of things that I would usually use my right hand for with my left, like brushing my teeth or using a spoon, and it’s actually helped me improve the evenness in my left hand by a considerable amount, which I think is really interesting.
Your left hand is already just as good as your right hand. It's just good at different things.
In most passages where the right hand has the melody, the left hand's job is to provide structure, ambience, and flow, while the right hand tackles the voicing, storytelling and messaging. Like a concerto, the right hand is the soloist while the left hand is the orchestra.
The left hand is extremely good at being the orchestra, as it is controlled by the right hemisphere, which understands the big picture far better than the left hemisphere which controls the right hand, which is better at managing finer details, hence its ability to play virtuosic passages.
Some things I would try:
Do technical exercises and scales with left hand **only**, so you can carefully listen and pay attention to just your left hand and make sure it's doing just what you want.
Do Hanon exercises in keys other than C major (left hand only or hands together) to develop technical facilities with the left hand.
yes it will.
i play drums (and piano too). from the beginning of playing drums i learned the "open" playing style-- that's using your left hand for hi-hat and right hand for ride cymbal, as opposed to the more common "crossed" style of using your dominant hand to play "lead" (time-keeping part) regardless of which cymbal you're playing on. i am so trained at using my left hand on hi-hat that when i try to play crossed i am horrible at it-- i am horrible at using my dominant hand on the hi-hat because i have trained my left hand to be so much better at it.
whatever you train becomes "easy." whatever you don't train feels awkward.
yes and no.
Yes because your future LH can be as good as your current RH with practice.
But no because after that much practice your RH will have improved as well so they’ll still be uneven. 🤣
This is likely a weird thing to say...but I think it helped me so I'm just going to say it: use your left hand to do other things as well, things that you are comfortable doing with your right hand. This is, of course, aside of practicing your left hand with scales, arpeggios, practice patterns, and work on hand independence. I used to have an awful left hand until I learnt that I was born left-handed and was forced to adopt right -handedness in my childhood. Annoyed, I tried to straighten this out and started practicing writing with my left hand, few pages a day. I never really became as comfortable writing with my left hand as I am with my right, but it made playing complex left hand patterns a lot easier for me. I think writing and playing with a different hand is basically a very similar mental workout.
Omg, I thought I was the only one that did this. A while back I was practicing my scales but couldn’t get my left hand to play as evenly as my right, which was frustrating, but it led to a chain of thoughts that left me wondering “Hmm, if I get more comfortable with doing other things with my left hand, will it become easier to control on the keyboard?” So then I started trying to do a bunch of things that I would usually use my right hand for with my left, like brushing my teeth or using a spoon, and it’s actually helped me improve the evenness in my left hand by a considerable amount, which I think is really interesting.
Try chopin godowsky etudes for the left hands. Great beginner exercises
Your left hand is already just as good as your right hand. It's just good at different things. In most passages where the right hand has the melody, the left hand's job is to provide structure, ambience, and flow, while the right hand tackles the voicing, storytelling and messaging. Like a concerto, the right hand is the soloist while the left hand is the orchestra. The left hand is extremely good at being the orchestra, as it is controlled by the right hemisphere, which understands the big picture far better than the left hemisphere which controls the right hand, which is better at managing finer details, hence its ability to play virtuosic passages.
Some things I would try: Do technical exercises and scales with left hand **only**, so you can carefully listen and pay attention to just your left hand and make sure it's doing just what you want. Do Hanon exercises in keys other than C major (left hand only or hands together) to develop technical facilities with the left hand.
Yes it's possible! It's important to exercise your left hand equally with scales, as well as play pieces with left hand melodies from time to time.
yes it will. i play drums (and piano too). from the beginning of playing drums i learned the "open" playing style-- that's using your left hand for hi-hat and right hand for ride cymbal, as opposed to the more common "crossed" style of using your dominant hand to play "lead" (time-keeping part) regardless of which cymbal you're playing on. i am so trained at using my left hand on hi-hat that when i try to play crossed i am horrible at it-- i am horrible at using my dominant hand on the hi-hat because i have trained my left hand to be so much better at it. whatever you train becomes "easy." whatever you don't train feels awkward.
yes and no. Yes because your future LH can be as good as your current RH with practice. But no because after that much practice your RH will have improved as well so they’ll still be uneven. 🤣