The Fingering Techniques

Direct Fingering

Whenever you place five fingers naturally over five keys and play them, you are using direct fingering:

• playing adjacent fingers on adjacent keys,
• extending the hand position to reach non-adjacent keys, and
• compressing the hand position without crossing or using one of the other fingering techniques.

This is the simplest of all fingering techniques. As in piano playing, it is commonplace at the organ.

See the Direct Fingering video examples.