hi jazer! i’m not sure if anyone has pointed this out, but it’s really appreciated how much effort you put in these videos. not even just the content and excellent explaining themselves, but also the fact that you include proper caption and section put the videos on the watch bar. it’s rare to see youtubers do these things, even youtuber with millions and millions of subs and views. keep it up! i really like your content :)
As a piano teacher, this is an GODSEND tutorial for my students! Thank you so much man! This is extremely important and useful and I’m definitely going to teach this method to them! Thank you so much!!! 😁🎹🎶🎵
Having had a weak and heavy left hand - and an innate fear of chords! - I've tended to practise more left hand stuff, whether it be pieces, scales, exercises; but the biggest aid of all is slow practice - have just been doing this, playing so slowly I can read both clefs and apply the correct fingering in a mindful fashion. Apart from anything else this does aid concentration, I find myself immersed more in the piece and find it calming - trying to run before one can walk is just stressful. It's not a race! 🙂
Find out why the left hand should get as much priority when it comes to practice and playing in the video. Here's some helpful timestamps. 🤓 🕘 Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:07 The Basics 2:17 Innovative Concept 4:15 Bonus Reason 1 4:55 Bonus Reason 2
Thank you! I've been struggling to play with both hands for a while, although I've picked up keyboard at the end of 2019. This helps me a lot! Good luck everyone, enjoy playing! 😊🌻
Hi Selia, I’ve been playing for about the same length of time as you, and I have the same problem. It’s interesting that playing each hand separately takes some work, but comes much faster than when putting them together. Keep going…my teacher always assures me that it will get better. Remember to have fun!
@@vic6695 Hi Vic! Thanks for responding, I hope you're having a good day/night! :) I always try to master the melody in my right hand first and add chords with my right hand. Then I try out different rhythms with my right hand. Then I try to put it all together, but I still can't really do that! I started playing with the SimplyPiano app (Android), and it really helped me, but now that my subscription has expired I have no idea how to continue practicing. Luckily I have a coach who tries to help me. It's frustrating how slow my progress is sometimes. Any fun songs almost any beginner can play along too, that are not too challenging but not "basic-I-dont-even-know-what-a-scale-is" easy? (Sorry for the long comment!)
@@jazerleepiano Hi Jazer, I'm so sorry I just found out you replied to me, I've been crazy busy! Thank you so much for responding, I'm really looking forward to those upcoming video's!! It would be much appreciated 🙏🏼 (Note - So I'm not a complete beginner but I don't feel like I get the basics right yet!)
Hey Jazer! I don't know if you have already answered this in one of your videos but what are basic piano/music concepts (like chords, keys, circle of fifths) and patterns/techniques of play that we should learn to have a more holistic understanding of a new song instead of going in blind and learning note by note??
(I’m waiting for his answer too) If you have proper theories enough basic learning. You will learn new music with less effort. If you choose harder piece you capable of, less your memory have for consideration how good of the quality, tone, posture or tension are.
This is actually on my list for a series of tutorials slated for posting soon. Be sure to watch this channel (every Wednesday is when I upload the new lesson/tutorial). 🤓
Maestro Jazer: we are very happy to see that you are well and back to your excellent chanel giving us very useful advices....thank you!. Un abrazo desde La Palma.
Crazy perfect timing for this video as I just hurt my right hand yesterday ( dang horses:). I was very sad as the winter months are when I focus on piano. Then I was wondering if focusing on my left hand for the next few weeks was a good idea. Your videos so often coincide with my questions. Thank you and everyone else who comments and "likes".
I think it helps a bit. Perhaps more so in the very early stages. I was always terribly bad at putting the time and effort into practicing that I can't say for sure if it's helped. The right hand still seems stronger but I that's because it seems to naturally get more attention simply based on how the music is written.
I'm a beginner and a lefty. I do have more trouble with my left hand but I think it is mostly linked to trouble reading the bass clef, whereas the treble clef feels natural. Also, I always start with my right hand to make the melody, then adding in another hand just blows my mind, regardless of if it is right or left.
As primarily a violist, I prioritize practicing with the left hand because I’m not great at reading bass clef, and as my fingers move towards the pinky the notes get lower. All sorts of backwards for me. Sometimes I’ll take a Bach cello suite and play it left handed to train my brain.
Hi Jazer, Great tip once again! Thank you. So from your earlier videos my take away has been, practice right hand separate, practice left hand separate, then practice together. Now I'm going to do the other way, first left hand, then right hand, then together. I think that should help change my thinking about my left hand. Prioritizing my left hand, as you say. 😀 Thanks.
Thanks for the excellent instruction. Left hand is a challenge but my greatest frustration is getting the two hands to work together without music to read. Trying to develop a "grooved" with chords in the left hand and improv in the right is much more difficult than I had thought it would be.
As I was playing by ear for a long time😅, I find it hard to play both hands when I play watching the notes sheet🎼. I am weak at sight reading cuz I started to learn international piano notes last year. As I am a self-learner, I watch your videos a lot and it really gives me tips and learning styles. Somehow it’s like you are my online teacher and you really are a great teacher ^^.
Hi Jazer, thank you very much for this lesson. My son is currently practicing Ballade and struggles to master the song since most of melody is on the left hand. This lesson motivates him to practice his left hand better.
I have always followed the techniques you mentioned because I attended a music school when I was young.I am very impressed by you performances.You are still very young but already an experienced and devoted piano teacher....Wish you success in your career.
Thank you for another precious piece of advice👏 I find it hard to catch up the left hand with the right hand. Fingers are weaker and get tired more easily. I'll try your method, we'll how it goes. The pieces are, of course, Turkish March and Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement😉 Also, I suspect most people here commenting did not understand the advice at all😂
1:14 Rondo Alla Turca (Mozart) 1:35 Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement (Beethoven) 4:09 Fantaisie Impromptu (Chopin) Thank you for making this video! I have been feeling lately that my left hand is so much weaker than my right hand. When they take turns to play the melody part I have to slow down the tempo for the whole piece to accommodate my clumsy left hand. Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve our left hand in general, i.e. etudes or exercises that focus on the left hand?
Rondo alla Turca, Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement, Fantasie Impromptu, Rondo alla Turca. I have been utilizing your tutelage in my practice and I'm extremely grateful for these videos 🙏
I had cut my right hand ring finger over a week ago. It came very close to needing stitches but it did hurt and I had the fear of it bleeding again so I didn't practice piano the first day at all. But I rethought this decision and used the time going forward to use and play all the exercises for left hand I could find and I would very much agree that I now feel it is very important to give a lot of attention to the left hand. My left hand has strengthened a lot and that makes me feel more confident. It will take some of the stress off when learning new pieces knowing that my left hand will learn its part easier now. To sum it up don't forget about the left hand. :)
what's your opinion on practicing each part on both hands? I tend to learn the left hand part on both hands and then the right hand part on both hands before I start really practicing them seperately. I find that being able to play each part on each hand helps me understand what each hand is doing and makes it easier to not confuse them
in his previous videos, he has mentioned that it is better to master it in one hand and then in the other. and then you can try both. don't learn both hands at the same time.;)
Glad to see you are feeling better! Those exercises you gave us in a previous video have really helped me with my left hand. The one about polyrhythm challenge.
Thank you for another wonderful lesson. I'm left handed and still have problems with both hands at times depending on the difficulty of the piece I'm playing. The solution that works best for me is to slow down and practice ... practice ... practice. Again, Thanks for another great video !!! 😉😊🤗
left hand normally plays in bass clef, pronounced base, and base is another word for foundation, so the left hand is the foundation of the song. it just makes sense.
Yesterday I was practicing like hell, i was on piano like 4 5 hours trying to find what is wrong with me and my hands. At a break i was on utube and found u again and saw some videos on how the practice has better results... SInce then , the 1h i keep on practicing was like the whole 3 4 hours i was doing before... It wasnt something that i didnt really know, i hear it from time to time from my teacher but it was u who reminded me these steps and added some salt that did the difference... So i calculate the hours for the next week (i just had my lesson) made a schedule,wrote down 5 things on how to remain right when practicing and put it on the piano where i can always see it.. With big bold letters.. ! ! ! I swear i d never sit on the piano again just playing, 15mins or 3h would be pure leveling.... Also about the left hand... It s a coincedence that i noticed lately that my czerny excersises were going so slow leveling from a tempo and beyond... It was in front of my eyes and ears that it was the left hand slows the process but i dint pay attention... at 89 tempo it was doing well at 92 the whole piece wasnt what i expect... seperating hands again and working more on the lame one it easily goes to 95... and the next day back to 90 lol... That curse... but easily back to 95... So after all,when i do my hannon excercises and put an extra only for left hand.. Also the exercise u showed in a past video where u hit a note with the 4 other fingers remaining steady and put (also the one that u use 1 3 , 2 4, 3 5 fingers (2 5 and 1 4 also later ) and hit the notes 10 times while the others stay silent ) i do it 10 times with the left hand 1st then 10 times with both. After that i picked 2 czerny excercises that aim at left hand clarity and play em (I ve already learnt them so it s 7 mins max). And at least in all these i try to concentrate on the left hand and dont care if right plays something wrong... with good tempo and to be played clearly... If i m in a rush, quite bored or tired after a full day of work i try to play somthing else 1st to get me calm, hit a snack, watch a video of u to get motivated and go back to the piano... ;) I havent found anything about pain in ur videos yet, small but it s noticable in my hands after practicing... I go fishing and my work usualy needs me to lift weights... Any tip? xept quiting ofc... ps. : same thing with the left hand is that 4 5 fingers are weak too... once i started doing chromatic scales with 345 fingers (tnx to paul barton) i found out that both hands were getting more of a piano playing shape... also it was easier to hit right notes from a distance ( like in la campanella) , seemed that the 5th finger is more controlable and the 4th more seperate.. Any opinions?
Hi Jazer, I really LOVE your videos, they really motivate me to practice! Now I have a request please: Could you do a video on how to play passages where the left and right hand play different times? I am trying to play a beautiful John Field Nocturne where the right hand plays 8 notes and the left 6 notes at the same time. Do you have any hints or ideas please? (It is bar 28 of Nocturne no.5 in B flat major). Thank you.
As a Jazz piano player (not a pianist) I sing what I play and I've always found that is hard to sing and therefore to think the left hand and the solution in my case is a bit the opposite of yours and that is to think of both hands as a single discourse and sing everything you play so that the left hand doesn't play by muscle memory alone.
When i started playing piano my left hand was acutally stronger... Over the months i managed to strenghted my right hand but unfortunately few months ago i injuried my left shoulder in accident and now i m working on strenghtning my left hand haha 😅 I want my both hands to be equaly strong! I hate when i practice particular piece and the left hand has very little stuff to do... Thats why i m looking now for pieces that involve more left hand stuff :D
Most people including myself are right-handed so the RH is stronger by default. Pieces for students to work on the LH include Bach 2-part Inventions. When both hands play similar melody & counter-melody, you need to focus playing the bottom as much as the top part. There are 2 easy pieces out of the "Notebook for Anna M Bach" including the Musette in D & Polonaise in Gm (supposedly by CPE Bach) with phrases where the LH & RH plays the same notes an octave apart. The 2 hands are opposite to each other and fingerings would be different playing the same notes. This is a good way to practice getting both hands to play at sync. 😊
Hey Jazer... I really appreciate all of your videos. I aspire to learn many of the songs you demonstrate and look forward to growing my repertoire of music I can play "on the fly". Thanks again.
I recently find your TH-cam Channel and i have been watching all the content you did. Firstable, thank you for all these advices, it's really helpful for teachers and students. For my left hand i try to say to my students that maybe is a good practice to play some parts that you learn with your right hand with the left hand, so that the left hand keeps moving and growing. I like cuban music and there are some pianist that have really challenging songs you can learn to develop your left hand, like Chucho valdés and Harold López Nuusa. Sorry for my bad english. And again: thanks for all your videos. They're awesome!
thanks jazer. a tip for you - play more soulfull blues n jazz n pop with wide timing changes and emotive expression, as super fast classical is so cold and, well, soulless! big love - will
So true! 😃 Seems like the left hand is always heavier.... It's kinda like a support of the right hand, but definitely makes the melody really sounds beautiful!
I just came across your channel today and I’m so glad that I did. I’ve been feeling the urge to get back into music after taking a break for years in architecture school. Your videos are really inspiring me to play piano again and they are super clear and helpful. Keep up the amazing work! 👏☺️🎶
Thanks Jazer for another great lesson. I'm left handed so the left hand is not a problem for me ... it's the right hand that I need to give more attention. Just as you stated in your example of the violinist and the cellist it's best to be proficient with both hands. !!!
Loving your videos dude. No bullshit, just good honest advice .. You sound Aussie too Mate. I’m on the south coast. Need to buy you a beer or 2 for your helpful videos man I’m right handed but Playing guitar for years has helped with my left hand learning piano, my right hand is the problem as in finger independence on the right hand my index finger raises a bit creating a bit of tension when I use the 4th and 5th fingers playing scales. Guessing because those fingers are weaker. I’m doing a few Hanon but mostly Czerny exercises opus 599 to help the fingers currently on opus 599 No13 it’s bit of a struggle but playing painfully slow is really helping a lot. 2 octave C major scale faster and smoother with my left hand than right lol.. I used to want to be able to shred on the piano but after about a few months of solid daily practice and learning some Chopin Nocturnes. All I care about now is better technique, clarity and control and then the speed will come eventually in like 5+ years. I actually find scales highly enjoyable. I’m 40 now so hopefully before I’m 45 I can play Fantasy Impromtu. So yeah I need to keep my patience lol and keep playing SLOW :) I don’t have a social life so i practice heaps, the notes are my friends lol.
This is an excellent little video. It took me far too long to realise that the most difficult part of playing Chopin’s Double Thirds study was mastering the LH. Same for the Black Keys study.
Turkish march bar 32 to 42 and Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement beginning. Edit: both pieces out of reach for me right now 😁 Please do a video on syncopation.
Maybe a crazy thought. Maybe try learning the right hand with the left and left with the right. This could give both hands the opportunity to be in the spotlight increasing the ability to be ambidextrous. I'm sure it'll sound odd.
Thank you for this teaching. It is very clear between the two hands. Playing both hands on the same time begins good and later i get some te tension in it. Greeting from Netherland 😊👌✍
It was fantastic 👏 thanks for such a good teaching I love you method, and actually I was watching this video after feeling lots of frustration with my incomplete learnings and practing. Thank you
It might be the case that right handed people have even more problems mastering the left hand than left handed ones. But as a left handed person I can assure you for me the left hand also is the weaker one.
Also, someone once tried to explain to me that there were different kinds or degrees of left-handedness. So, we don’t all have have the same experiences.
@@noeladdy Funny you should say that as I've often felt that as left-handers, we're so often forced into right handed situations that we naturally develop both hands. I can not use a computer mouse with my left hand at all! It feels completely awkward. With computers, so much the norm, I do much less handwriting and don't seem to feel as much left handed as I used to! If that makes any sense....
Don't forget that many of the great composers wrote pieces for the left hand only! Look them up, and learn them!! They are a great challenge, and wonderful workout for the left hand! There are probably many of them here on youtube!
Hey, Jazer! I love your great MasterClass tips and great reward of free Piano tutoring you give us always. I don't know that piece in the video but have heard it before. I really want to be fast in Piano as you.
darn. i've realized a lot after watching this vid. first is that when i study a piece i do RH first then when it's time to read LH, i always find that i'm already tired or need a break or i don't have much time left. that's why my left always lags behind. i realized that maybe i will try learning LH first before RH, because 1) RH is more enjoyable and melodious so i still got the motivation to learn it after, 2) now that you mentioned that LH gives the sense of rhythm, it will give me a more stable tempo. i noticed that i frequently lose my tempo. my LH could be my tempo stabilizer. rondo ala turca, moonlight sonata 3rd mvt, fantasie impromptu :)
Studying theory helps a lot. Imagine you have to memorize two short poems, one in a language you know and one in language you don't know, but uses the same alphabet. In the language you know, you can organize things by ideas. Consider the difference between how hard it is to memorize: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" "Nopea ruskea kettu hyppaa laiskan koiran yli" They have a similar amount of letters (analogous to notes) but the imagery that the words create make it easier to remember the one in the language you know. If you study music theory, you can memorize the English sentence, but if you don't study theory, both might as well be foreign.
As someone who is very left-handed (I play guitar left-handed), I still have more trouble with my piano left hand. I think it's because of all the reasons you mention, plus the right hand part always seem more exposed, and it almost always has the melody. So I practice it more... or at least I did, until now. Thanks for this lesson.
Thank you for the excellent (as always!) video on the left hand. At some point could you do a lesson on how to do left hand “jumps” (strides?) as in waltzes and rags. How do I learn to land on the right keys ? Elaine in Pennsylvania USA
Thank you so much for another great video...your tips are always so helpful...you are explaining everything in such a fantastic and interesting way...👍🙃🎹🌹
Hey Jazer I hope you’re doing well and are recovering from being sick but I wanted to ask you a question. I think you may have talked about this before but I’m not 100% sure but when it comes to memorizing a piece of music you have heavily emphasized that we do not look down at the keys so we may develop “spacial awareness” so my question is how exactly do we memorize a piece of music by heart? And what are the steps we take into doing that? Do we constantly just keep reading the music until it just comes natural or do we look down time to time to memorize our movements. I’m having a lot of trouble with this and I really really hope you can reach out a hand, thank you Jazer I hope you feel better!
The pieces names are:-
1. Mozart Turkish march (rondo all turca)
2. Beethoven moonlight sonata no.3
3. Chopin Fantasia impromptu (op.66)
@Casio Player Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is his sonata number 14, but he did play the 3rd movement.
5:05
@@picodemadera Chopin - Grande Valse Brillante Op.18
@@aaryankirtania he was just starting by only playing the left hand lmao
@@rawvision6701 Thank you for correction.🙂
hi jazer! i’m not sure if anyone has pointed this out, but it’s really appreciated how much effort you put in these videos. not even just the content and excellent explaining themselves, but also the fact that you include proper caption and section put the videos on the watch bar. it’s rare to see youtubers do these things, even youtuber with millions and millions of subs and views. keep it up! i really like your content :)
Finger independence, Arpeggios, ten hand coordination exercises are my left hand work outs. I still do the part one & two as warm ups. Amazing!
Can you tell me about 10 hand coordinator exercise? Did Jazer made video on this?
@@hardiksawalkar Yes, Its on his channel.
Here's the link to Part 1 - th-cam.com/video/VXD0p_g_UTg/w-d-xo.html
@@jazerleepiano I practice my left hand with Godowsky’s études.
As a piano teacher, this is an GODSEND tutorial for my students! Thank you so much man! This is extremely important and useful and I’m definitely going to teach this method to them! Thank you so much!!! 😁🎹🎶🎵
I am glad to be of help. 🤓
Having had a weak and heavy left hand - and an innate fear of chords! - I've tended to practise more left hand stuff, whether it be pieces, scales, exercises; but the biggest aid of all is slow practice - have just been doing this, playing so slowly I can read both clefs and apply the correct fingering in a mindful fashion. Apart from anything else this does aid concentration, I find myself immersed more in the piece and find it calming - trying to run before one can walk is just stressful. It's not a race! 🙂
Love this
Find out why the left hand should get as much priority when it comes to practice and playing in the video. Here's some helpful timestamps. 🤓
🕘 Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:07 The Basics
2:17 Innovative Concept
4:15 Bonus Reason 1
4:55 Bonus Reason 2
Just learning piano and 5:00 really opened my mind.
Thank you! I've been struggling to play with both hands for a while, although I've picked up keyboard at the end of 2019. This helps me a lot! Good luck everyone, enjoy playing! 😊🌻
Hi Selia, I’ve been playing for about the same length of time as you, and I have the same problem. It’s interesting that playing each hand separately takes some work, but comes much faster than when putting them together. Keep going…my teacher always assures me that it will get better. Remember to have fun!
@@vic6695 Hi Vic! Thanks for responding, I hope you're having a good day/night! :) I always try to master the melody in my right hand first and add chords with my right hand. Then I try out different rhythms with my right hand. Then I try to put it all together, but I still can't really do that! I started playing with the SimplyPiano app (Android), and it really helped me, but now that my subscription has expired I have no idea how to continue practicing. Luckily I have a coach who tries to help me. It's frustrating how slow my progress is sometimes. Any fun songs almost any beginner can play along too, that are not too challenging but not "basic-I-dont-even-know-what-a-scale-is" easy? (Sorry for the long comment!)
@@selia4525 Lemme feature a simple, easy to learn song in my future beginner's lessons and tutorials. Watch for these lessons on this channel soon! 🤓
@@jazerleepiano Hi Jazer, I'm so sorry I just found out you replied to me, I've been crazy busy! Thank you so much for responding, I'm really looking forward to those upcoming video's!! It would be much appreciated 🙏🏼 (Note - So I'm not a complete beginner but I don't feel like I get the basics right yet!)
@@jazerleepiano I practice left hand with Godowsky's etudes.
I was JUST practicing the piano and felt how much my left hand held me back to learn a certain sequence. Thanks for the awesome timing and video!
Hey Jazer! I don't know if you have already answered this in one of your videos but what are basic piano/music concepts (like chords, keys, circle of fifths) and patterns/techniques of play that we should learn to have a more holistic understanding of a new song instead of going in blind and learning note by note??
(I’m waiting for his answer too)
If you have proper theories enough basic learning. You will learn new music with less effort.
If you choose harder piece you capable of, less your memory have for consideration how good of the quality, tone, posture or tension are.
Yes! I have problems understanding chords and what's the logic behind them.
This is actually on my list for a series of tutorials slated for posting soon. Be sure to watch this channel (every Wednesday is when I upload the new lesson/tutorial). 🤓
Yes!!! Please Jazer!!! I love your lessons and they have done so much for me. I would love to get better at chord theory and use!
Great question.
Maestro Jazer: we are very happy to see that you are well and back to your excellent chanel giving us very useful advices....thank you!. Un abrazo desde La Palma.
As a returning piano player after a long break, I have found your videos to the point and extremely helpful. Thank you.
Crazy perfect timing for this video as I just hurt my right hand yesterday ( dang horses:). I was very sad as the winter months are when I focus on piano. Then I was wondering if focusing on my left hand for the next few weeks was a good idea. Your videos so often coincide with my questions. Thank you and everyone else who comments and "likes".
Wondering if naturally Left Handed people have the same issue? Cheers
As a left handed person, my right hand feels weaker for playing than my left!
I am a lefty, when an on the piano my right hand is stronger than my left maybe because I practice alot on it
I think it helps a bit. Perhaps more so in the very early stages. I was always terribly bad at putting the time and effort into practicing that I can't say for sure if it's helped. The right hand still seems stronger but I that's because it seems to naturally get more attention simply based on how the music is written.
Im left handed and I have noticed that I play left hand more louder and its easier to learn
I'm a beginner and a lefty. I do have more trouble with my left hand but I think it is mostly linked to trouble reading the bass clef, whereas the treble clef feels natural. Also, I always start with my right hand to make the melody, then adding in another hand just blows my mind, regardless of if it is right or left.
As primarily a violist, I prioritize practicing with the left hand because I’m not great at reading bass clef, and as my fingers move towards the pinky the notes get lower. All sorts of backwards for me. Sometimes I’ll take a Bach cello suite and play it left handed to train my brain.
Hi Jazer,
Great tip once again! Thank you.
So from your earlier videos my take away has been, practice right hand separate, practice left hand separate, then practice together. Now I'm going to do the other way, first left hand, then right hand, then together. I think that should help change my thinking about my left hand. Prioritizing my left hand, as you say. 😀
Thanks.
Thanks for the excellent instruction. Left hand is a challenge but my greatest frustration is getting the two hands to work together without music to read. Trying to develop a "grooved" with chords in the left hand and improv in the right is much more difficult than I had thought it would be.
As I was playing by ear for a long time😅, I find it hard to play both hands when I play watching the notes sheet🎼. I am weak at sight reading cuz I started to learn international piano notes last year. As I am a self-learner, I watch your videos a lot and it really gives me tips and learning styles. Somehow it’s like you are my online teacher and you really are a great teacher ^^.
Hi Jazer, thank you very much for this lesson. My son is currently practicing Ballade and struggles to master the song since most of melody is on the left hand. This lesson motivates him to practice his left hand better.
I have always followed the techniques you mentioned because I attended a music school when I was young.I am very impressed by you performances.You are still very young but already an experienced and devoted piano teacher....Wish you success in your career.
Excellent teaching ....I appreciate your skills and knowledge....thanks a lot
Thank you for another precious piece of advice👏
I find it hard to catch up the left hand with the right hand. Fingers are weaker and get tired more easily. I'll try your method, we'll how it goes.
The pieces are, of course, Turkish March and Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement😉
Also, I suspect most people here commenting did not understand the advice at all😂
Bonus reason number 3: Practicing hands separately allows one hand to rest, which helps prevent repetitive stress injuries.
1:14 Rondo Alla Turca (Mozart)
1:35 Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement (Beethoven)
4:09 Fantaisie Impromptu (Chopin)
Thank you for making this video! I have been feeling lately that my left hand is so much weaker than my right hand. When they take turns to play the melody part I have to slow down the tempo for the whole piece to accommodate my clumsy left hand. Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve our left hand in general, i.e. etudes or exercises that focus on the left hand?
I shall see about that. I will add that request for future piano tutorials here on my channel. 🤓
Rondo alla Turca, Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement, Fantasie Impromptu, Rondo alla Turca.
I have been utilizing your tutelage in my practice and I'm extremely grateful for these videos 🙏
Thanks a lot for your video. And thank you for the English you speak..really clear and understandable. Have a nice day.
I had cut my right hand ring finger over a week ago. It came very close to needing stitches but it did hurt and I had the fear of it bleeding again so I didn't practice piano the first day at all. But I rethought this decision and used the time going forward to use and play all the exercises for left hand I could find and I would very much agree that I now feel it is very important to give a lot of attention to the left hand. My left hand has strengthened a lot and that makes me feel more confident. It will take some of the stress off when learning new pieces knowing that my left hand will learn its part easier now. To sum it up don't forget about the left hand. :)
Wow yeah, great advice. Thanks Jazer
Showing this to my students!!
what's your opinion on practicing each part on both hands? I tend to learn the left hand part on both hands and then the right hand part on both hands before I start really practicing them seperately. I find that being able to play each part on each hand helps me understand what each hand is doing and makes it easier to not confuse them
in his previous videos, he has mentioned that it is better to master it in one hand and then in the other. and then you can try both. don't learn both hands at the same time.;)
@@CoolGirl-uf1ou i think they mean that they learn to play the left hand piece with both their left and right hands, one at a time
Never heard of that technique... Might be very helpful!
bru i just suck
@@lukeconklin9459 we all have that problems starting out but with time, practice and patience, you end up not sucking at all.
You are a great teacher
Glad to see you are feeling better! Those exercises you gave us in a previous video have really helped me with my left hand. The one about polyrhythm challenge.
Thank you for another wonderful lesson.
I'm left handed and still have problems with both hands at times depending on the difficulty of the piece I'm playing.
The solution that works best for me is to slow down and practice ... practice ... practice.
Again, Thanks for another great video !!! 😉😊🤗
I was thinking about doing that. Ok thanks amd i appreciate it
Thanks again teacher jazer! 😊
I enjoy your videos , especially when you omit the R sound in words when you speak. It sounds soothing like your piano playing. Thanks for sharing!
Spot on!! As a bassist, I can totally related to this. The bass player is really important in a band. 😎
Thanks for your teachings, they're very helpful!!!!!!!!!😊
Very helpful info..thanks!
left hand normally plays in bass clef, pronounced base, and base is another word for foundation, so the left hand is the foundation of the song. it just makes sense.
Yesterday I was practicing like hell, i was on piano like 4 5 hours trying to find what is wrong with me and my hands. At a break i was on utube and found u again and saw some videos on how the practice has better results... SInce then , the 1h i keep on practicing was like the whole 3 4 hours i was doing before... It wasnt something that i didnt really know, i hear it from time to time from my teacher but it was u who reminded me these steps and added some salt that did the difference... So i calculate the hours for the next week (i just had my lesson) made a schedule,wrote down 5 things on how to remain right when practicing and put it on the piano where i can always see it.. With big bold letters.. ! ! ! I swear i d never sit on the piano again just playing, 15mins or 3h would be pure leveling....
Also about the left hand... It s a coincedence that i noticed lately that my czerny excersises were going so slow leveling from a tempo and beyond... It was in front of my eyes and ears that it was the left hand slows the process but i dint pay attention... at 89 tempo it was doing well at 92 the whole piece wasnt what i expect... seperating hands again and working more on the lame one it easily goes to 95... and the next day back to 90 lol... That curse... but easily back to 95...
So after all,when i do my hannon excercises and put an extra only for left hand.. Also the exercise u showed in a past video where u hit a note with the 4 other fingers remaining steady and put (also the one that u use 1 3 , 2 4, 3 5 fingers (2 5 and 1 4 also later ) and hit the notes 10 times while the others stay silent ) i do it 10 times with the left hand 1st then 10 times with both. After that i picked 2 czerny excercises that aim at left hand clarity and play em (I ve already learnt them so it s 7 mins max). And at least in all these i try to concentrate on the left hand and dont care if right plays something wrong... with good tempo and to be played clearly... If i m in a rush, quite bored or tired after a full day of work i try to play somthing else 1st to get me calm, hit a snack, watch a video of u to get motivated and go back to the piano... ;)
I havent found anything about pain in ur videos yet, small but it s noticable in my hands after practicing... I go fishing and my work usualy needs me to lift weights... Any tip? xept quiting ofc...
ps. : same thing with the left hand is that 4 5 fingers are weak too... once i started doing chromatic scales with 345 fingers (tnx to paul barton) i found out that both hands were getting more of a piano playing shape... also it was easier to hit right notes from a distance ( like in la campanella) , seemed that the 5th finger is more controlable and the 4th more seperate.. Any opinions?
Hi Jazer, I really LOVE your videos, they really motivate me to practice! Now I have a request please: Could you do a video on how to play passages where the left and right hand play different times? I am trying to play a beautiful John Field Nocturne where the right hand plays 8 notes and the left 6 notes at the same time. Do you have any hints or ideas please? (It is bar 28 of Nocturne no.5 in B flat major). Thank you.
As a Jazz piano player (not a pianist) I sing what I play and I've always found that is hard to sing and therefore to think the left hand and the solution in my case is a bit the opposite of yours and that is to think of both hands as a single discourse and sing everything you play so that the left hand doesn't play by muscle memory alone.
When i started playing piano my left hand was acutally stronger... Over the months i managed to strenghted my right hand but unfortunately few months ago i injuried my left shoulder in accident and now i m working on strenghtning my left hand haha 😅 I want my both hands to be equaly strong! I hate when i practice particular piece and the left hand has very little stuff to do... Thats why i m looking now for pieces that involve more left hand stuff :D
I’m glad you’re feeling better😀 thank you for your piano knowledge. You are very talented.
Love your videos. 🥰
Most people including myself are right-handed so the RH is stronger by default.
Pieces for students to work on the LH include Bach 2-part Inventions. When both hands play similar melody & counter-melody, you need to focus playing the bottom as much as the top part.
There are 2 easy pieces out of the "Notebook for Anna M Bach" including the Musette in D & Polonaise in Gm (supposedly by CPE Bach) with phrases where the LH & RH plays the same notes an octave apart. The 2 hands are opposite to each other and fingerings would be different playing the same notes. This is a good way to practice getting both hands to play at sync. 😊
Hey Jazer... I really appreciate all of your videos. I aspire to learn many of the songs you demonstrate and look forward to growing my repertoire of music I can play "on the fly". Thanks again.
I recently find your TH-cam Channel and i have been watching all the content you did. Firstable, thank you for all these advices, it's really helpful for teachers and students. For my left hand i try to say to my students that maybe is a good practice to play some parts that you learn with your right hand with the left hand, so that the left hand keeps moving and growing. I like cuban music and there are some pianist that have really challenging songs you can learn to develop your left hand, like Chucho valdés and Harold López Nuusa. Sorry for my bad english. And again: thanks for all your videos. They're awesome!
I have only been self teaching for a few months. I am glad I found this video early on in my journey.
thanks jazer. a tip for you - play more soulfull blues n jazz n pop with wide timing changes and emotive expression, as super fast classical is so cold and, well, soulless! big love - will
So true! 😃 Seems like the left hand is always heavier.... It's kinda like a support of the right hand, but definitely makes the melody really sounds beautiful!
I just came across your channel today and I’m so glad that I did. I’ve been feeling the urge to get back into music after taking a break for years in architecture school. Your videos are really inspiring me to play piano again and they are super clear and helpful. Keep up the amazing work! 👏☺️🎶
Excellent advice!
Thanks Jazer for another great lesson. I'm left handed so the left hand is not a problem for me ... it's the right hand that I need to give more attention. Just as you stated in your example of the violinist and the cellist it's best to be proficient with both hands. !!!
Loving your videos dude. No bullshit, just good honest advice .. You sound Aussie too Mate. I’m on the south coast. Need to buy you a beer or 2 for your helpful videos man
I’m right handed but Playing guitar for years has helped with my left hand learning piano, my right hand is the problem as in finger independence on the right hand my index finger raises a bit creating a bit of tension when I use the 4th and 5th fingers playing scales. Guessing because those fingers are weaker. I’m doing a few Hanon but mostly Czerny exercises opus 599 to help the fingers currently on opus 599 No13 it’s bit of a struggle but playing painfully slow is really helping a lot. 2 octave C major scale faster and smoother with my left hand than right lol.. I used to want to be able to shred on the piano but after about a few months of solid daily practice and learning some Chopin Nocturnes. All I care about now is better technique, clarity and control and then the speed will come eventually in like 5+ years. I actually find scales highly enjoyable. I’m 40 now so hopefully before I’m 45 I can play Fantasy Impromtu. So yeah I need to keep my patience lol and keep playing SLOW :) I don’t have a social life so i practice heaps, the notes are my friends lol.
Those 2 pro tips at the end were very insightful
The pieces that were played were Rondo Alla Turca or Turkish March by Mozart. And Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement by Beethoven
yep
Good to see you back after Covid. Stay well.
Thanks so much. Not only are you a great pianist; you also explain and communicate very well. Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much!
This is an excellent little video.
It took me far too long to realise that the most difficult part of playing Chopin’s Double Thirds study was mastering the LH. Same for the Black Keys study.
Loved this Video. Totally makes sense.. also A+++ for your audio quality in the video much appreciated.
Thank you!
Great input!
Turkish march bar 32 to 42 and Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement beginning.
Edit: both pieces out of reach for me right now 😁
Please do a video on syncopation.
Reallly helpfull tips 👏👏👏😍😍😍💯💯💯
Turkish march, Moonlight sonata 3rd movement, fantasie impromptu Op.66 - Thanks for this video!
Thank you
Recently learning Chopin's Revolutionary Etude (Op. 10 No. 12) and by default, it teaches us why left hand matters.
Maybe a crazy thought. Maybe try learning the right hand with the left and left with the right. This could give both hands the opportunity to be in the spotlight increasing the ability to be ambidextrous. I'm sure it'll sound odd.
Thank you for this teaching.
It is very clear between the two hands.
Playing both hands on the same time begins good and later i get some te tension in it.
Greeting from Netherland 😊👌✍
Very nice explanation!!!🤘🤘🤘
1:47 of course this is moonlight 3rd movment one of the most popular and i like it so much i was play it every day
It was fantastic 👏 thanks for such a good teaching I love you method, and actually I was watching this video after feeling lots of frustration with my incomplete learnings and practing. Thank you
1: Mozart Turkish March
2: Beethoven 14 3rd mvt
3: Chopin Fantasie-Impromptu (1834 version)
It might be the case that right handed people have even more problems mastering the left hand than left handed ones. But as a left handed person I can assure you for me the left hand also is the weaker one.
Left-handed here, and I agree with Sebparker
Same here. Odd really you would think that we would have a great advantage!
Also, someone once tried to explain to me that there were different kinds or degrees of left-handedness. So, we don’t all have have the same experiences.
@@noeladdy I have a degree in psychology and had some courses on neurological topics. Handedness is absolutely not binary!
@@noeladdy Funny you should say that as I've often felt that as left-handers, we're so often forced into right handed situations that we naturally develop both hands. I can not use a computer mouse with my left hand at all! It feels completely awkward. With computers, so much the norm, I do much less handwriting and don't seem to feel as much left handed as I used to! If that makes any sense....
Hello All, don't forget that Jazer has other videos on his channel that help to strengthen, coordinate and improve skills for the left hand.
You are amazing teacher and pianist!!
Turkish march, Moonlight Sonata movement 3, Fantasie impromptu
thanks - great advice. One of the things I do, being a drummer previously, is use drumming rudiments and assign to different fingers
You've illustrated a fundamental principle of Western music: a good rhythm section. Left Hand = Paul and Ringo.
I really suggest playing Bach inventions for improving left hand
As always very useful, thank you very much!
Don't forget that many of the great composers wrote pieces for the left hand only! Look them up, and learn them!! They are a great challenge, and wonderful workout for the left hand! There are probably many of them here on youtube!
Hey, Jazer! I love your great MasterClass tips and great reward of free Piano tutoring you give us always. I don't know that piece in the video but have heard it before. I really want to be fast in Piano as you.
darn. i've realized a lot after watching this vid. first is that when i study a piece i do RH first then when it's time to read LH, i always find that i'm already tired or need a break or i don't have much time left. that's why my left always lags behind. i realized that maybe i will try learning LH first before RH, because 1) RH is more enjoyable and melodious so i still got the motivation to learn it after, 2) now that you mentioned that LH gives the sense of rhythm, it will give me a more stable tempo. i noticed that i frequently lose my tempo. my LH could be my tempo stabilizer.
rondo ala turca, moonlight sonata 3rd mvt, fantasie impromptu :)
Mr. Jazer, please give me tips on how to memorize a piano piece faster. because I feel like my memorization in sucks, thanks for answering.
Studying theory helps a lot. Imagine you have to memorize two short poems, one in a language you know and one in language you don't know, but uses the same alphabet. In the language you know, you can organize things by ideas. Consider the difference between how hard it is to memorize:
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
"Nopea ruskea kettu hyppaa laiskan koiran yli"
They have a similar amount of letters (analogous to notes) but the imagery that the words create make it easier to remember the one in the language you know.
If you study music theory, you can memorize the English sentence, but if you don't study theory, both might as well be foreign.
"If you are watching this video, it means that you care about your piano progress "
Also we that doesn't even have a piano: Hmmm interesting
Mozart- Türkischer Marsch
Beethoven- Mondscheinsonste
Chopin- Fantasia
Woah…. So I started playing piano yesterday…. I am so happy I have found this channel! I can tell it’s gonna be a big help! Very well explained! Xo
Thank you for the kind words. This makes what I do all worth it. 🤓
Thank you for your great video. Also I am relieved to see you are well!!!
As someone who is very left-handed (I play guitar left-handed), I still have more trouble with my piano left hand. I think it's because of all the reasons you mention, plus the right hand part always seem more exposed, and it almost always has the melody. So I practice it more... or at least I did, until now. Thanks for this lesson.
thanks for the tip, my right hand now is practicing a lot and my left hand is holding the beer, don't know if i improve, but i feel better now
I’ve been waiting for a video on left hand ✋
A very useful lesson. Many thanks Jazer! 👍🏾🇬🇩🇬🇧
Moonlight sonata 3rd movement presto agitato. The first piece my 6 year old son learnt when he started piano... lol.
Thank you for the excellent (as always!) video on the left hand. At some point could you do a lesson on how to do left hand “jumps” (strides?) as in waltzes and rags. How do I learn to land on the right keys ? Elaine in Pennsylvania USA
Thank you so much for another great video...your tips are always so helpful...you are explaining everything in such a fantastic and interesting way...👍🙃🎹🌹
Hey Jazer I hope you’re doing well and are recovering from being sick but I wanted to ask you a question. I think you may have talked about this before but I’m not 100% sure but when it comes to memorizing a piece of music you have heavily emphasized that we do not look down at the keys so we may develop “spacial awareness” so my question is how exactly do we memorize a piece of music by heart? And what are the steps we take into doing that? Do we constantly just keep reading the music until it just comes natural or do we look down time to time to memorize our movements. I’m having a lot of trouble with this and I really really hope you can reach out a hand, thank you Jazer I hope you feel better!
Hey Jazer thanks you