Left Hand vs Right Hand

Your left hand and right hand should always compliment each other like a husband and a wife. However, there is always a dominant hand. Most people are right hand dominant. Some are left hand dominant.

In most cases, the dominant usually leads the sub-dominant hand. However, if the right hand is too far more capable than left hand, it is time to train your left hand so that you can achieve some kind of balance. So that besides right hand complimenting left hand, left hand is also capable of complimenting right hand.

Sometimes, without training, your left hand is playing too loud and drown your right hand's beautifully crafted melody. Sometimes, when the right hand give the left hand a chance to voice out, left hand is too nervous, inconfident or incapable of doing that.

Some very good piece for training the independence of your left hand are first movement of Corigliano's Etude Fantasy, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major for the left hand and Ravel's Piano Concerto for Left Hand in D Major.

In these pieces, wide leaps, playing both melody and accompaniment with only left hand helps to challenge the pianist's other side of brain to think about more actions at one time for left hand.

Corigliano's Etude Fantasy


Ravel's Piano Concerto for Left Hand Concerto in D Major (The Beautiful Cadenza Part) performed by Leon Fleisher


Prokofiev's Piano Concerto no 4 first movement performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy