What do you think of Dave's exercises? You can download the music here: pianote.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/blog/2020/Two-Hand%20Rhythms/Two-Hand-Rhythms.pdf And here's the timecode for each one: - Exercise 1 - 2:20 - Exercise 2 - 6:30 - Exercise 3 - 7:54 - Exercise 4 - 9:29
Excellent rhythm exercises! My near-term goal is to nail these 4 exercises until I can do them fast without really thinking about it. I'm starting out really slowly to internalize them, like he said; then building up tempo, just like you've advised before to do with scales. I really hope you have Dave back for more! Fantastic lesson. Awesome teacher.
I come from drumming, 2 months into my piano journey. I did not expect the rhythm and coordination to transfer so well. I have to learn all the other stuff but it's such a useful foundation. I count and tap the same way he does when learning a new song lol
Dave: "You can play a little softer." Lisa: "Can you Dave?" Brilliant stuff - informative AND hilarious. No disrespect to Dave, what drummers can do in terms of limb independence is absolute witchcraft.
I had to turn the volume up at first as he spoke quite softly. The first time he played the piano my ears started to bleed! But great video and good tips... thanks!
Me : ( reading ur comment ) While reading ur comment I heard “ you can play a little softer “ Then “ Can you Dave “. I read ur comment at the perfect time 😎
I don't think it's that strange that a drummer would give a piano lesson, especially regarding rhythm. Both the drums and piano are percussion instruments. The difference is the drums are a rhythmic percussion instrument while the piano is a melodic percussion instrument.
I play guitar, drums and bass. Now I’m learning piano. I have noticed a few advantages from playing other instruments that apply to the piano. Drums: Rhythm, timing and hand independence. Bass: Left hand bass runs and slash chords. Guitar: Broken chords and/or arpeggio style playing. However, I wish I had learned piano first. Music Theory is much easier to understand on a piano because everything is laid out right in front of you. 🎹
I too am a drummer (for 30+ years), and recently started learning piano. Knowing how to read and play rhythm has really helped my learning. It’s exciting to see a familiar drummer “pounding” the keys and providing some excellent tips! I enjoy playing chord progressions with my left hand on the keyboard while keeping a beat on the drums with my remaining limbs.
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I've got an experiment that you might find interesting that can aid with both hand and foot independence. Perfect for drummers too. I discovered this myself sometime ago and it kinda works. Just hear me out. Start by taking a walk, it doesn't have to be outdoors, just pace from room to room. While walking, tap out a rhythm with your hands. This could be clapping your hands together or tapping your thighs. Now vary the rhythm. Notice that you were able to vary the rhythm completely independently from your walking pace, right? When you walk it's natural, you've developed muscle memory and you don't even have to think about it. Now sit on a chair and tap your feet on the floor, right, left, right, left, and so on... Now clap or tap a rhythm once again with your hands and try varying the rhythm. I can almost guarantee that you totally messed up the rhythm with your feet. Am I right? Now here's where a little psychology come in... Do the same again with your feet but this time just visualise yourself taking a leisurely walk. Once again tap out a rhythm with your hands but keep visualising a leisurely walk along a canal or some other place. Now vary the rhythm of your hands while maintaining your leisurely walk... Chances are it worked and you can now maintain a steady beat with your feet while varying the rhythm with your hands. It works for me. Please try it and let me know if it works for you too. I've tried this with my right and left hand too. I experiment while performing natural actions like stirring coffee. I will stir a coffee with my left hand then introduce some tapping rhythm on the countertop with my right, and vica versa. It seems to work... ... until I sit in front of a keyboard 🤣
SS - Very interesting! Agree, parts of our brain are on autopilot and others are lost following GPS. Can't wait to try this exercise. Thanx for the suggestion!
This was wonderful! And speaking as a former tap dance student back in the day I was thrilled to realize that counting music was exactly the same rhythm process. Talk about WOW! I immediately understood what I was accomplishing. Oh and, more drummer lessons on the piano please!! Love the gems of wisdom. Thanks!
Try Left Left Right... left left right... left right for an octave. As a drummer, I love this one in piano 😊 We practice these paradiddles visa Versa as you can interchange the hands too, just switch the rights to lefts and lefts to rights. It would probably sound good 💚
Woah! Hold your horses Dave! I love it. It's way over my ability right now but I love it. I often find myself tapping my knees or a tabletop to music and find hand independence quite easy but as soon as I sit in front of a keyboard my brain shuts down. I'm concentrating too much on forming the chords correctly for my hands to work independently. Single fingers I can do though so I guess that's a start. Thanks for this great collab Lisa and Dave 😀
Can I reverse the analogy? I never had as lefty difficulties with left and right hand melodies on the piano....does this mean drums would come easy to me?
Drumming also involves the feet and I've got an experiment that you might find interesting that can aid with hand and foot independence. I discovered this myself sometime ago and it kinda works. Just hear me out. Start by taking a walk, it doesn't have to be outdoors, just pace from room to room. While walking, tap out a rhythm with your hands. This could be clapping your hands together or tapping your thighs. Now vary the rhythm. Notice that you were able to vary the rhythm completely independently from your walking pace, right? When you walk it's natural, you've developed muscle memory and you don't even have to think about it. Now sit on a chair and tap your feet on the floor, right, left, right, left, and so on... Now clap or tap a rhythm once again with your hands and try varying the rhythm. I can almost guarantee that you totally messed up the rhythm with your feet. Am I right? Now here's where a little psychology come in... Do the same again with your feet but this time just visualise yourself taking a leisurely walk. Once again tap out a rhythm with your hands but keep visualising a leisurely walk along a canal or some other place. Now vary the rhythm of your hands while maintaining your leisurely walk... Chances are it worked and you can now maintain a steady beat with your feet while varying the rhythm with your hands. It works for me. Please try it and let me know if it works for you too. I've tried this with my right and left hand too. I experiment while performing natural actions like stirring coffee. I will stir a coffee with my left hand then introduce some tapping rhythm on the countertop with my right, and vica versa. It seems to work... ... until I sit in front of a keyboard 🤣
FAVORITE LESSON EVER!!! (No offense Lisa!). Just because I’m rhythmically challenged, and it’s exactly what I need to work on). I can’t believe how much brilliant content you wonderful people put out there FOR FREE-everyone should sign up to become a member just as a little THANK YOU!!!! And Drummer Dave being a beginner and playing like that is just rude!!! 🤣🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻
I played drums for a long time and one year ago i started with piano, is true that hand coordination could bbe easier but when you translate it to the fingers is when things get tougher
Yes. Arpeggios and bouncing on the 5th's to create additional movement and fllls. Kinda like sounds you would get from the high hat. To add them in piano and keep constant (drummer like timing) is the real challenge. All the best on your piano journey.
That's what I was thinking. Drummers might get slamming chords in a pretty rhythm down easily. But their real issue would be controlling rhythm in their fingers.
This is a really valuable lesson for ALL piano players, and in particular we newbies. Rhythm is such an important part of making music but many of us skip over it in our rush to play the right notes. It's so important in keeping time and tempo. A wonderful video with great value to us newbies. Thanks for posting. Cheers!
Now i understand, why was so hard for me,i never can't play any of the percussions,because i was so bad in timing!even dancing, look like i have two left foots hahaha🤣wao
So after watching this I had to go run some errands for my wife and what Dave was saying is really true. I had the radio on listening to the intro riff from Bad Company playing Bad Company and you can hear the alternate hands playing. Pretty cool stuff.
This is very helpful. When I first started trying to learn how to play piano a little over a year ago, and noticed I was having trouble with rhythm, I looked everywhere for a video that featured a drummer teaching rhythm on the piano. 💪🏽💪🏽
*_Cross-over of the century!!_* Drumeo & Pianote finally collide to become one mighty *Drumnote-Pianeo* !! Love you guys! Do more stuff with folks from Drumeo please every now and then - super fun material indeed. After all, you're situated in the same building, single wall away from one another :D
This was amazing you guys!! 😲 I totally understand rhythm as I first learned music through percussion and I’ve always felt more like a drummer in my head. This tutorial really helped me transport my little music know-how as a drummer straight into my piano practice and awareness. Thank you! 😩 Love you much!
Good Lesson! FYI Lisa and Dave, I have been playing, performing and Teaching Drums full time for many years. I decided a few years ago that I wanted to play some Piano. Guess what my first Piano Sing was??? Linus and Lucy ?( Charlie Brown) you know the only real challenge to this song is the Syncopated Rhythm. No problem for myself due to years of Drumming😅 Thank you for your instructional videos. Always enjoy and you have helped me to further my Piano Skills as a Drummer
What a wonderful little video. Thank you. In the past, I'd thought about how drumming is so pointedly rhythm-centric but didn't have any idea on how to take advantage of it. Also for me I consider the drums to be one of the three primary instruments I should know (do I?...nope). You two have shown how. Thank you again.
This little exercise is taking me places. Just have to remember the vi-IV-I-V progression, then work out the right hand chords from the scale of the key that I want to learn, then go to it, sort of transposing on the fly. It teaches me right hand chords and quite a bit of keyboard real estate in the bass region.
That explains why my left hand plays flams parradidles triplets 16ths and 32s and I'm doing double peddles .my wife thought I was having a fit or some type of frontal lobe explosion .38 years of drumming.and now fallen in love with another precusion instrument the piano .
Next week, lessons from a guitar player. Firstly take the sheet music and turn it over to the blank side which is more useful for drawing patters on, then open the back of the piano, and tune all of the E notes down a whole step for Drop-D piano, then turn the piano volume up to 11....should I go on? Seriously though, this was one of the most useful piano lessons ever. Please Lisa, get Drummer Dave back on. Timing lessons from a drummer is great unless you have to meet them at a set time ;)
A good idea : drummer at the piano! And what about the opposite : a pianist on drums; but not on real drum set, but the digital one inside the electronic keyboard , which also includes the possibility of split and metronome? For example, a pianist plays with both hands on the keys of bass drum and snare drum with a metronome on and changing the balance between the hands; and at the same time he uses pianistic playing movements.
It's not that they're not taught it so much as the other material drowns it out. It's akin to how English classes try to teach kids Shakespearean poetry alongside basic English grammar & vocabulary -- the result being students that can quote sonnets, but are barely literate otherwise.
1 and 2 are what the kick drum plays, I’m starting to play synths and using what I’ve learned hear on those, though most are monophonic. I’ve played other instruments before snd taking a break from them and filling the role of a secondary synth player at church. I recently played easter snd used lessons 1 and 2 on this video for one of my bass synths and midi linked those with my pads and EPs it was awesome!
I think that if you want to improve hand independence, then learn drums, if you have a hard time playing the piano to improve hand independence, and when you're back at the piano, your hands are now independent.
I'd love to see something like this from a guitarist. I play guitar but now that I'm home 24/7 I've dusted off the keyboard, but I totally think like a guitarist.
This is a trip for my old mind! A metronome might help... If I could only find the manual to this old Casio CTK-611 that I have to play on. It seems to be on there, but heck if I can get it going. Time to just independently hammer the bass line until it is ingrained in the noggin (:>) . Lisa, you and Pianote rock! I am wondering how far I would have gone if I hadn't discontinued band after middle school, now (baritone). . Dave, you have me wishing I had learned drums in high school... parents aside!
I just tried the metronome built into the tuner I just bought, and it is perfect for that (Donner DT-4 Metro-Tuner Clip On). I am trying to learn bass guitar, too... Don't know if I am crazy, but my area is lacking both. I might have something to do when I retire, besides DJ'ing!
I'm teaching myself piano, very slowly and I'm really struggling with finding the beat and keeping the rhythm. My 13 year old son is a brilliant drummer and guitarist and he has been really helping me, because rhythms and beats come very naturally to him. This piano lesson from a drummer makes perfect sense.
"Give the Drummer some " I loved this very nice :) all music has a lot of Diversification if you look at Stravinsky and so on we see that sometimes is great To see things through the eyes of a drummer to get a different perspective and appreciate what's out there.
As Always this was a great lesson. I have been playing for 2 years. And at about the end of year one, I did a 4 month deep dive into playing the piano like a drummer. Where I would incorporate bouncing left-hand rhythms using the 5th and the octave. I studied Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder. Elton John. Ray Charles. Except for Stevie Wonder, they all play simple chords. But the make them complex with rhythm. I wanted to play like them, and so mastering piano rhythm was a must.
Great lesson thanks to the neighbour of Pianote, Drumeo. I am a drummer too. I am also folowing piano lessons at Pianote. Many greetings from the Netherlands.
How on earth can you teach music without teaching this first? I have always had my guitar and piano students tapping things out with both hands independently? Some of the rhythms in the sight reading that I come across are much much more complicated than this!!!
Very interesting approach. I play piano since young and I'm learning drums with my son . We are teaching each other ,very similar way you guys are doing. Totally understand. I follow your chanel :) love it . Thanks for your time. Really great 😊👍
5:01 It’s cool how you can see the different musician in the way the play they rhythm together. He uses his whole arm (drummer) and she uses her wrist (pianist).
What do you think of Dave's exercises? You can download the music here:
pianote.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/blog/2020/Two-Hand%20Rhythms/Two-Hand-Rhythms.pdf
And here's the timecode for each one:
- Exercise 1 - 2:20
- Exercise 2 - 6:30
- Exercise 3 - 7:54
- Exercise 4 - 9:29
great topic....awesome presentation, interesting point of view...
Honestly, this was by far one of the best exercises. Bring this guy on more... Helped me a lot as a beginner.
Awesome! We'll have him back for sure!!
Excellent rhythm exercises! My near-term goal is to nail these 4 exercises until I can do them fast without really thinking about it. I'm starting out really slowly to internalize them, like he said; then building up tempo, just like you've advised before to do with scales. I really hope you have Dave back for more! Fantastic lesson. Awesome teacher.
Now we have chord progression and rhythm, is it possible to do anything "rhythm progression"?
Thank you so much great enthusiasm. Keepsafe.fromthe UK stroke survivor
I love this lesson. It would be great if you and Drumeo Dave could do a sequel on "finger independence".
do more sessions like this to get other musicians perspectives
Finger independence made easy
I come from drumming, 2 months into my piano journey. I did not expect the rhythm and coordination to transfer so well. I have to learn all the other stuff but it's such a useful foundation. I count and tap the same way he does when learning a new song lol
I like the rhythm analysis a lot, more like this please.
This is great! Thanks v much :)
Hello! I wanted to say that your TH-cam channel is amazing! I really want to learn how to play the piano, but what if I fail?:(
You only truly fail if you give up. Everything else is just practice :)
Pianote thank you!
Please teach Kim how to play, she needs it I think.
Dave: "You can play a little softer."
Lisa: "Can you Dave?"
Brilliant stuff - informative AND hilarious. No disrespect to Dave, what drummers can do in terms of limb independence is absolute witchcraft.
I had to turn the volume up at first as he spoke quite softly. The first time he played the piano my ears started to bleed! But great video and good tips... thanks!
Lool u ever heard the expression dont let your right hand know what your left hand is doing ...its that basically lool
Excellent
Kurt Retort LOL 😂 😂 😂 so true
Me : ( reading ur comment ) While reading ur comment I heard “ you can play a little softer “ Then “ Can you Dave “. I read ur comment at the perfect time 😎
Absolutely the best piano channel ever, you can learn so much, you WANT to learn it and it's so easy and so helpful at the same time. I love you guys.
That's an "ear-opening" lesson,. Thank you, guys!
I don't think it's that strange that a drummer would give a piano lesson, especially regarding rhythm. Both the drums and piano are percussion instruments. The difference is the drums are a rhythmic percussion instrument while the piano is a melodic percussion instrument.
Drums - rhythmic percussion
Piano- rhythm+melody+percussion
After wanting for several years to play piano I discovered Denelle piano lesson and it seems to be the top home study course (check it out on google)
@@carlosroman586 is it better than PIANOTE
I play guitar, drums and bass. Now I’m learning piano. I have noticed a few advantages from playing other instruments that apply to the piano. Drums: Rhythm, timing and hand independence. Bass: Left hand bass runs and slash chords. Guitar: Broken chords and/or arpeggio style playing. However, I wish I had learned piano first. Music Theory is much easier to understand on a piano because everything is laid out right in front of you. 🎹
That’s the same exact case for me... I wish I didn’t stop my classical piano lessons back when I was a kid
I only play guitar and im interested to learn play piano, having a musical background sure helps
True about music theory and the piano.
Brilliant perspective
Wow. Can you have Dave come back for another rhythm lesson sometime in the future please?
Absolutely!
@@PianoteOfficial can you get nate savage to learn piano as a guitar player perspective?
I too am a drummer (for 30+ years), and recently started learning piano. Knowing how to read and play rhythm has really helped my learning. It’s exciting to see a familiar drummer “pounding” the keys and providing some excellent tips! I enjoy playing chord progressions with my left hand on the keyboard while keeping a beat on the drums with my remaining limbs.
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Please Please Please ask him for more exercise like 2/4 beats, 3/4 beats and 4/4 beats. It's was a awesome video. You don't know how helpful it was for us.
So pleaaaaasssssseeeeeee make more video on this topic.
Thank you in advance.❤❤❤
We will for sure!
@@PianoteOfficial Thank you so much in advance
Dave: says "rudimental"
Me: drummer alert!!!
I've got an experiment that you might find interesting that can aid with both hand and foot independence. Perfect for drummers too.
I discovered this myself sometime ago and it kinda works. Just hear me out.
Start by taking a walk, it doesn't have to be outdoors, just pace from room to room.
While walking, tap out a rhythm with your hands. This could be clapping your hands together or tapping your thighs. Now vary the rhythm.
Notice that you were able to vary the rhythm completely independently from your walking pace, right?
When you walk it's natural, you've developed muscle memory and you don't even have to think about it.
Now sit on a chair and tap your feet on the floor, right, left, right, left, and so on...
Now clap or tap a rhythm once again with your hands and try varying the rhythm.
I can almost guarantee that you totally messed up the rhythm with your feet. Am I right?
Now here's where a little psychology come in...
Do the same again with your feet but this time just visualise yourself taking a leisurely walk. Once again tap out a rhythm with your hands but keep visualising a leisurely walk along a canal or some other place. Now vary the rhythm of your hands while maintaining your leisurely walk...
Chances are it worked and you can now maintain a steady beat with your feet while varying the rhythm with your hands. It works for me. Please try it and let me know if it works for you too.
I've tried this with my right and left hand too. I experiment while performing natural actions like stirring coffee. I will stir a coffee with my left hand then introduce some tapping rhythm on the countertop with my right, and vica versa. It seems to work...
... until I sit in front of a keyboard 🤣
SS - Very interesting! Agree, parts of our brain are on autopilot and others are lost following GPS. Can't wait to try this exercise. Thanx for the suggestion!
Cool... always working on my rhythm... this might help.
This was wonderful! And speaking as a former tap dance student back in the day I was thrilled to realize that counting music was exactly the same rhythm process. Talk about WOW! I immediately understood what I was accomplishing. Oh and, more drummer lessons on the piano please!! Love the gems of wisdom. Thanks!
Drums are a percussion instrument. Piano is the ultimate percussion instrument. ‘nough said.
classixdrummer you sure?
gutenbird - Did I stutter?
Never thought of it that way, 🤔 good catch
Guitar is percussion too.
brian gallia - Technically both a stringed instrument and a percussion instrument.
This is a repeat video, it is a great exercise, I would welcome more patterns from Dave.
Try Left Left Right... left left right... left right for an octave. As a drummer, I love this one in piano 😊 We practice these paradiddles visa Versa as you can interchange the hands too, just switch the rights to lefts and lefts to rights. It would probably sound good 💚
Woah! Hold your horses Dave!
I love it. It's way over my ability right now but I love it.
I often find myself tapping my knees or a tabletop to music and find hand independence quite easy but as soon as I sit in front of a keyboard my brain shuts down. I'm concentrating too much on forming the chords correctly for my hands to work independently. Single fingers I can do though so I guess that's a start. Thanks for this great collab Lisa and Dave 😀
I’m a drummer and yes piano come a bit easier and this channel helps me a lot
Excellent video. thanks for this!
Thanks for the inspiring video!
Oh my gosh! Very nice exercise, specially to me who's weak with rhythm 🙃
It would be nice to see a guitarist 🙂 on a piano to see how they approach
Can I reverse the analogy?
I never had as lefty difficulties with left and right hand melodies on the piano....does this mean drums would come easy to me?
Sebastjan Brezovnik no.
Haha who knows?! Only one way to find out a guess (just kidding don't learn the drums hahaha)
Drumming also involves the feet and I've got an experiment that you might find interesting that can aid with hand and foot independence.
I discovered this myself sometime ago and it kinda works. Just hear me out.
Start by taking a walk, it doesn't have to be outdoors, just pace from room to room.
While walking, tap out a rhythm with your hands. This could be clapping your hands together or tapping your thighs. Now vary the rhythm.
Notice that you were able to vary the rhythm completely independently from your walking pace, right?
When you walk it's natural, you've developed muscle memory and you don't even have to think about it.
Now sit on a chair and tap your feet on the floor, right, left, right, left, and so on...
Now clap or tap a rhythm once again with your hands and try varying the rhythm.
I can almost guarantee that you totally messed up the rhythm with your feet. Am I right?
Now here's where a little psychology come in...
Do the same again with your feet but this time just visualise yourself taking a leisurely walk. Once again tap out a rhythm with your hands but keep visualising a leisurely walk along a canal or some other place. Now vary the rhythm of your hands while maintaining your leisurely walk...
Chances are it worked and you can now maintain a steady beat with your feet while varying the rhythm with your hands. It works for me. Please try it and let me know if it works for you too.
I've tried this with my right and left hand too. I experiment while performing natural actions like stirring coffee. I will stir a coffee with my left hand then introduce some tapping rhythm on the countertop with my right, and vica versa. It seems to work...
... until I sit in front of a keyboard 🤣
@Simi Sami Thanks for the feedback. I'm really glad it worked for you. 😀
That's amazing I'm going to practice this every day. I struggled with timing since started playing. Although I am quite good at classical music.
This is EXACTLY what I have been looking for!!! Dave, Lisa, thank you so much! These videos are so helpful!
FAVORITE LESSON EVER!!! (No offense Lisa!). Just because I’m rhythmically challenged, and it’s exactly what I need to work on). I can’t believe how much brilliant content you wonderful people put out there FOR FREE-everyone should sign up to become a member just as a little THANK YOU!!!! And Drummer Dave being a beginner and playing like that is just rude!!! 🤣🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻
I played drums for a long time and one year ago i started with piano, is true that hand coordination could bbe easier but when you translate it to the fingers is when things get tougher
Yes. Arpeggios and bouncing on the 5th's to create additional movement and fllls. Kinda like sounds you would get from the high hat. To add them in piano and keep constant (drummer like timing) is the real challenge. All the best on your piano journey.
That's what I was thinking. Drummers might get slamming chords in a pretty rhythm down easily. But their real issue would be controlling rhythm in their fingers.
As a former drummer who is learning piano, all I can say is... AMEN.
i'm transitioning from piano to percussion to drum kit and i can't get my head round drumkit grooves.
This is a really valuable lesson for ALL piano players, and in particular we newbies. Rhythm is such an important part of making music but many of us skip over it in our rush to play the right notes. It's so important in keeping time and tempo. A wonderful video with great value to us newbies. Thanks for posting. Cheers!
🤔Interesting. Thank You Great Video!!
Now i understand, why was so hard for me,i never can't play any of the percussions,because i was so bad in timing!even dancing, look like i have two left foots hahaha🤣wao
So after watching this I had to go run some errands for my wife and what Dave was saying is really true. I had the radio on listening to the intro riff from Bad Company playing Bad Company and you can hear the alternate hands playing. Pretty cool stuff.
This is very helpful. When I first started trying to learn how to play piano a little over a year ago, and noticed I was having trouble with rhythm, I looked everywhere for a video that featured a drummer teaching rhythm on the piano.
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*_Cross-over of the century!!_* Drumeo & Pianote finally collide to become one mighty *Drumnote-Pianeo* !!
Love you guys! Do more stuff with folks from Drumeo please every now and then - super fun material indeed. After all, you're situated in the same building, single wall away from one another :D
Oh, I love this! He seems like a such a cool guy :) And he explained everything perfectly
Dave is an awesome guy and an amazing teacher!
This was amazing you guys!! 😲 I totally understand rhythm as I first learned music through percussion and I’ve always felt more like a drummer in my head. This tutorial really helped me transport my little music know-how as a drummer straight into my piano practice and awareness. Thank you! 😩 Love you much!
Thank you! That is so awesome. The struggle is real though!!! LOL.
Good Lesson! FYI Lisa and Dave, I have been playing, performing and Teaching Drums full time for many years. I decided a few years ago that I wanted to play some Piano. Guess what my first Piano Sing was??? Linus and Lucy ?( Charlie Brown) you know the only real challenge to this song is the Syncopated Rhythm. No problem for myself due to years of Drumming😅 Thank you for your instructional videos. Always enjoy and you have helped me to further my Piano Skills as a Drummer
He really drums the piano!
Lisa thanks for bringing Dave in to teach rhythm. That was brilliant! Thank you so much!!!
What a wonderful little video. Thank you. In the past, I'd thought about how drumming is so pointedly rhythm-centric but didn't have any idea on how to take advantage of it. Also for me I consider the drums to be one of the three primary instruments I should know (do I?...nope). You two have shown how. Thank you again.
This little exercise is taking me places. Just have to remember the vi-IV-I-V progression, then work out the right hand chords from the scale of the key that I want to learn, then go to it, sort of transposing on the fly. It teaches me right hand chords and quite a bit of keyboard real estate in the bass region.
That explains why my left hand plays flams parradidles triplets 16ths and 32s and I'm doing double peddles .my wife thought I was having a fit or some type of frontal lobe explosion .38 years of drumming.and now fallen in love with another precusion instrument the piano .
Next week, lessons from a guitar player. Firstly take the sheet music and turn it over to the blank side which is more useful for drawing patters on, then open the back of the piano, and tune all of the E notes down a whole step for Drop-D piano, then turn the piano volume up to 11....should I go on? Seriously though, this was one of the most useful piano lessons ever. Please Lisa, get Drummer Dave back on. Timing lessons from a drummer is great unless you have to meet them at a set time ;)
I’m working on a blues piece right now. I finally ended up writing 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & In each measure. Just counting wasn’t working.
A good idea : drummer at the piano! And what about the opposite : a pianist on drums; but not on real drum set, but the digital one inside the electronic keyboard , which also includes the possibility of split and metronome? For example, a pianist plays with both hands on the keys of bass drum and snare drum with a metronome on and changing the balance between the hands; and at the same time he uses pianistic playing movements.
This is ridiculously good!!...Please bring him often:-)
I am absolutely dumbfounded that she wasn’t taught this and that most people who are classically taught seem to have little idea about basic rhythm?!
It's not that they're not taught it so much as the other material drowns it out. It's akin to how English classes try to teach kids Shakespearean poetry alongside basic English grammar & vocabulary -- the result being students that can quote sonnets, but are barely literate otherwise.
i'm glad I played guitar and a little bit of percussion for 10 years before I started piano, it definitely helps with hand independence and rhythm.
I like it ,because I am a drummer too and I learn Piano to time too
1 and 2 are what the kick drum plays, I’m starting to play synths and using what I’ve learned hear on those, though most are monophonic. I’ve played other instruments before snd taking a break from them and filling the role of a secondary synth player at church.
I recently played easter snd used lessons 1 and 2 on this video for one of my bass synths and midi linked those with my pads and EPs it was awesome!
I think that if you want to improve hand independence, then learn drums, if you have a hard time playing the piano to improve hand independence, and when you're back at the piano, your hands are now independent.
Can u plz make a cover on Hey soul sister pllllzzzzz🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I'd love to see something like this from a guitarist. I play guitar but now that I'm home 24/7 I've dusted off the keyboard, but I totally think like a guitarist.
We might have just the lesson for you :) - th-cam.com/video/0QcdeMZgAhA/w-d-xo.html
Great lessons...
I appreciate the concepts u talk about in your videos!! ✌
"Can you, Dave??" LOL
Very useful lesson. Thanks a lot to both of you.
amazing lesson! Pianote is awesome.
This is a trip for my old mind! A metronome might help... If I could only find the manual to this old Casio CTK-611 that I have to play on. It seems to be on there, but heck if I can get it going. Time to just independently hammer the bass line until it is ingrained in the noggin (:>)
. Lisa, you and Pianote rock! I am wondering how far I would have gone if I hadn't discontinued band after middle school, now (baritone).
. Dave, you have me wishing I had learned drums in high school... parents aside!
I just tried the metronome built into the tuner I just bought, and it is perfect for that (Donner DT-4 Metro-Tuner Clip On). I am trying to learn bass guitar, too... Don't know if I am crazy, but my area is lacking both. I might have something to do when I retire, besides DJ'ing!
DAVE ...your last name is Atkinson too?! Are we brothers from another mother?!😎👍🏾
His last name IS Atkinson! :)
Pianote same here🤘🏾
Hey Lisa, you forgot to ask Dave what sort of sticks he uses.......
It really awesome but how to learn to play soft one and how to flow same concept in right hand
I love this lesson. I have always wanted to play the drums and I'm drawn to playing my keyboard in a rhythmic way. 💜
Love this guy...
This was awesome!!!!!
GREAT video, many thanks.
Love this channel ❤️
Power-packed lesson! Dave broke it down wonderfully. Thank you! I hope Lisa and crew are all safe and healthy.
Thanks Mark!
@@MrDaveAtkinson Poking at drums really helped my left/right coordination. See my channel for 2 piano songs I wrote. Cheers, Dave!
That was fantastic. Great to have the perspective from a drummer 😃
This dude blew my mind. So simple but so effective
I love both of these instruments..❤️
But I am drummer without any class🙁
Still I can play some beats (Beginner)
I'm teaching myself piano, very slowly and I'm really struggling with finding the beat and keeping the rhythm. My 13 year old son is a brilliant drummer and guitarist and he has been really helping me, because rhythms and beats come very naturally to him. This piano lesson from a drummer makes perfect sense.
Hello Dave, Great!! with Lisa!! Drumeo and Pianote.. great!!
"Give the Drummer some " I loved this very nice :) all music has a lot of Diversification if you look at Stravinsky and so on we see that sometimes is great To see things through the eyes of a drummer to get a different perspective and appreciate what's out there.
More rythmn percussion techniques please
As Always this was a great lesson. I have been playing for 2 years. And at about the end of year one, I did a 4 month deep dive into playing the piano like a drummer. Where I would incorporate bouncing left-hand rhythms using the 5th and the octave. I studied Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder. Elton John. Ray Charles. Except for Stevie Wonder, they all play simple chords. But the make them complex with rhythm. I wanted to play like them, and so mastering piano rhythm was a must.
Great lesson thanks to the neighbour of Pianote, Drumeo. I am a drummer too. I am also folowing piano lessons at Pianote.
Many greetings from the Netherlands.
good exercises. Do you have more exercises like these for me ?
This is a great lesson to help me with beats and rhythm. Thanks so much for posting.
How on earth can you teach music without teaching this first? I have always had my guitar and piano students tapping things out with both hands independently? Some of the rhythms in the sight reading that I come across are much much more complicated than this!!!
I'm also a drummer and started learning piano, and even I find it a bit easy. And this exercise is really helpful 👍
HOLY JESUS!!!! That's one of my troubles when playing piano and bass. RHYTHM!!!!! Why is so hard.
Very interesting approach. I play piano since young and I'm learning drums with my son . We are teaching each other ,very similar way you guys are doing. Totally understand.
I follow your chanel :) love it . Thanks for your time. Really great 😊👍
Awesome. Thanks guys, so useful!!
really awesome.. i bought a roland fp30 based on your advice.. still waiting for it and to start
Oh awesome!! I can't wait for you to get it :)
Superb. Loved the technique ❤️
This is great! I would love more videos with drummers teaching rhythm!
Again! Your creativity make me smile at every single video. Another original approach.
okay piano players you gotta learn drum rudiments.
Thanks for the download Dav and Lisa.
Omg...... i loved it... Amazing concept
5:01 It’s cool how you can see the different musician in the way the play they rhythm together. He uses his whole arm (drummer) and she uses her wrist (pianist).
Wow! I am seriously impressed. 😮
Much needed, thanks. More, please.
Thanks for this valuable lessons.