help with trills

[cwjalex]

i have been playing for about a year and the hardest things for me to do technically are trills.  i am currently learning mozart's sonata no.8 in a minor and there are a lot of trills with both hands and with different fingers.  is there a way to get better at trills besides just playing through the piece?  do people practice them in isolation?  should i use a metronome?  it's irritating playing through a piece and it sounds almost perfect except the trills.

[pianoplayer51]

I hated trills when I first started doing them.  That was because I did not know how to do them.  Once my teacher showed me the right way to do trills, I gradually grew to like them and now I deliberately look for pieces with trills 

[j_menz]

I hated trills when I first started doing them.  That was because I did not know how to do them.  Once my teacher showed me the right way to do trills, I gradually grew to like them and now I deliberately look for pieces with trills 

Perhaps it would be more useful if you shared the method, rather than merely gloating about knowing it.

[pianoplayer51]

This might help

[cwjalex]

thanks, i found some useful information in the video.  unfortunately i think i will just have to practice them to get them perfect.  i just find it difficult to make them sound perfect consistently with certain fingers and my left hand trills are worse than my right hand trills.

[pianoplayer51]

I have never played music which has left hand trills.  The only trills I have ever had to play are right hand ones.  I am right handed so perhaps I will have difficulty with left hand trills.  Mind you, it took a lot of practicing to get right hand trills to sound ok