[Nostalgia] [Eng_sub] About to "Finger Pressing"

(* This is the 1st time to write an article in English.) 

     Hello, everyone. My name is "NOGIO".
     Thank you for accessing this article 🙂

     I like music game, but I've never played the piano ... Although, even if I can't play the piano, the music game "Nostalgia" made me feel like I could play the piano!! ✧٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧ yeah!!
     In this article, I wrote down what I felt and thought about the "finger pressing" for myself. (*1) 
    "I've never play the piano... But try finger pressing! (ง ˙-˙ )ง"
    "I don't know how to practice finger pressing ... (·︿· `) "

    Don't worry. This article will surely take you a back boost.
 I hope this article supports your back to try finger pressing 🙂 Let's begin!

(*1) "finger pressing" is fingering on the piano.

Anyway, What is the "finger pressing" ? 

     In Nostalgia, I thought the "finger pressing" means "pushing as if the pianist is playing the piano" . You may feel so difficult. I don't even know well. The point is to pursue "elegance" rather than other music game.
     What is the difference with "finger pressing" in other music game ? For example, we play "Beatmania IIDX" using the "finger pressing". "Beatmania IIDX" is the music game playing with 1 turntable and 7 buttons. The number of buttons is not so large, but sometimes it requires to tap buttons over and over and ...(10 seconds later)... and over again. (*2)   (ex. 冥 - Mei , 卑弥呼 - Himiko , etc...)
     As a result, most players play this game with fixed hand positions.

    On the other hands, "Nostalgia" is fewer than "Beatmania IIDX" to tap buttons, but "Nostalgia" has 28 buttons (like the piano) and move our hands (and arms) from side to side. Besides, in the "Recital mode" we are required the balance of the strength to press buttons.

(*2) Of cource, there are exceptions.

Before practicing "finger pressing" ... 

     I thought that the most important to practice the "finger pressing" is having an model image the pianist plays the piano.  Anything is OK to watch videos on YouTube, go to concerts, and so on. You will be able to practice finger pressing more smoothly just by having one model image. I watched my favorite performance videos on YouTube so many times that there was a hole in my iPad and solidified the model image of "finger pressing".

 This YouTube movie made a hole in my iPad (´ε｀；)

    Classic music is better if possible, but I think any movie playing the piano will do. Let's check it out how to use hands when pianists are playing the piano.

the "Basic Mode" and the"Recital Mode" are Completely Different

     "Finger pressing" shows its true value in "Recital Mode".
     But, when you play "Recital Mode", you will get less score than you expected. And most of the time, you lose our motivation and break or give up. (*3)
     In Nostalgia, this phenomenon is more pronounced. (e.g. In "Basic Mode", this song should have scored more than 980,000 points and been able to get full combo stably, but even if the same song was played as "Recital Mode", the score is much lower and the grade is below 100 ... 😢 )

     I saw it on Twitter a long time ago, 

Nostalgia's basic and recital are separate games. Just as with the first sound tune game, it's good to start the recital of nostalgia from low difficulty. 
                                                                      ------someone's tweet

     I thought the tweet hit the nail on the head. 
    To start practicing "finger pressing",  it is better to start with a low difficulty ( = easy ) song. It may be easy to try to practice from the Normal score ( = difficulty ) of your favorite song.

(*3) Perhaps, you may be experiencing this in a variety of situations, not limited to nostalgia and other sound games.
 

Let's Start with "Three Fingers"

     Even if you really want to practice finger pressing, it's impossible to play with all your fingers from the beginning. At the beginning of practice, I recommend that you try moving our thumb, index finger, and middle finger. (*4)
     The thumb, index , and middle finger are easy to move separatedly.  But, when you actually play Nostalgia with the 3 fingers, I think that you may push all the notes with both index fingers with both hands (*5), or I may take them with the palm of our hand as playing in the "Basic Mode". 
     In this regard, you have to play it many times and practice iteratively. It’s easy once you get used to it. If I have the opportunity, I would like to explain in more detail.

(*4) Of course, there are individual differences.
(*5) So-called "sewing machine push".

Example of practice method

     The method that I found to be the easiest to try after various trials is we don't use the same finger continuously.  (It's a kind of tied-up play.)  My friends taught me this practice method 🙂
     Also, it is important to get the feeling that we are pushing the button with one finger. At this time, it doesn't matter if your wrists move or your arms move.

     It may sound like a contradiction, but in the future it's important that you have only one finger touching the keyboard when you play Nostalgia. Simply put, it's different from pushing the palm.

     This is the introduction of "finger pressing". I will write the next article that is a little more advanced than the introduction. 

     Thank you for reading, see you.