Proper Fingering in General?

[jvizzlez]

Greetings, Pianostreet. Following Chuan C. Chang's Fundamentals of Piano Practice book, I've come to the realization that what's keeping me from advancing in my piano playing is my terrible fingering.

No teacher I've had in the past 2 years has told me anything about proper fingering. I'm willing to argue that they've taught me relatively nothing at all, but that's a stretch. Nonetheless, I really want to develop proper fingering for faster songs (so that I don't get into the habit of playing with improper technique, thus hitting speedwalls every other measure), but I'm not sure where to begin. Chang argues against using Hanon, Czerny, etc., for technique, but does not go into detail (so far) about what to actually use. Normal songs that I play never seem to have the fingering marked down on the sheet music, and the ones that do are always way too easy to warrant learning anything (at least, in my opinion), so where can I go, or what can I do, to learn the proper general fingering? Practice scales? Hanon? Learn it by simply playing more often?

Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advance.

[awesom_o]

Learn to play all major and minor scales hands together with your eyes closed, 4 octaves.

Once you can do them really well with the hands an octave apart, master them with the hands separated by a 3rd and a 6th.

Don't worry about 'speed' so much as good legato, and smooth control of the fingering.

Also master what is called the Grand Scale, or the Formula Pattern.
Here is a video of it, although the woman playing isn't that good:

Learn all keys major and minor this way!