I am a beginner on the piano and am finding it hard when say my right hand has to play loudly and my left hand softly. I find it really hard and end up with them both sounding the same. How can I improve?

its gota be a conscious active attempt in your practice to get it done... you have to deliberately work on it - try to 'hide' the hand that u want to be soft and imagine the other hand having a solo part - rather like a cantabile passage

good luck

You might try "ghosting" - that is you play the LH part normally and you touch the RH notes without actually playing them. Sometimes helps the process along.

Make sure you also work on the LH part on its own - that might sound a bit obvious, but I don't mean just at the note learning stage. Spend time really perfecting the phrasing and articulation of the LH part, it will help your LH's confidence to "sing" its own melody.

Maggie

Sorry - just re-read your original post, and I see I transposed the left and right hands of your question - obviously need my coffee!

Anyway the same techniques apply in general - just work it out in terms of whichever hand has the melody. If it's right hand, try ghosting with your left. Hope that helped and I didn't confuse you ...............

Maggie

I find left hand stacato / right hand legatto - or the other way 'round - very difficult!