10 Piano Skills to Master in 2024
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- Embark on a musical journey this year as an aspiring and accomplished pianist! Elevate your playing to new heights with these 10 essential piano skills, ranging from beginner-friendly to advanced. Watch until the end and find out which of these skills you have mastered and which ones you need to start on. Let me know in the comments below.
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0:00 Intro
0:20 Skill 1
0:40 Skill 2
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1:36 Skill 3
2:06 Skill 4
2:33 Skill 5
3:20 Skill 6
4:03 Skill 7
4:27 Skill 8
5:21 Skill 9
5:35 Skill 10
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🕘 Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:20 Skill 1
0:40 Skill 2
1:23 *Special HCB SALE*
1:36 Skill 3
2:06 Skill 4
2:33 Skill 5
3:20 Skill 6
4:03 Skill 7
4:27 Skill 8
5:21 Skill 9
5:35 Skill 10
What is the name of the music you used to demonstrate skill 5 please?
You could include skill 10 in some of the (preferably mastered) parts of the Hanon book.
Also, as a beginner pianist myself (2 years in), this feels like the path to mastery. Man, just sight reading alone would be awesome, I can only identify about a third of the notes immediately and have to use those as anchor points to get to the others, which takes to much time.
If anyones interested I found the song. It's called one summers day from the anime spirited away.
@@ThisWorldisCorrupt00thank you i came to the comments to find the name of the song because i recognized it but couldn't remember where it was from lol
how can i get the hanon book?tq
I’m 80 years old and and have been playing for 3 years so I’m working on all of them. I’m learning to play chord rhythm by ear , both country and jazz, as well as reading classical music. Learning and memorizing chords has helped by sight reading, just need more practice.
Thank you for your inspiring comment. Made my whole day.
Wow massive respect you gave me a big motovation thank you sir❤
Merci, from a 67 year old whose played less than 2. My Mom started at 65 also and played for over 20 years. Bonne continuation.
Just quit its not worth it in the end
@@ironkilling9626that’s not true. It depends on your passion and practice ethics.
Your pointer on never allowing yourself to play wrong notes...and playing correctly 7 times has made me much better
That was also a game changer for me.
And likewise. It has helped speed up my learning of pieces by like 10 fold.
I love your explicit lessons. I’m an oldie (75) picking up the piano again after oh so many years. Thank you 😀
Currently working on Scales and Arpeggios, Hand Independence, Finger Independence, Octaves, and Voicing! Working on the First Movement of Beethovens Moonlight Sonata is teaching me sooooo much about all of these things and many more!
I have never seen someone tells us like Jazer Lee as highlighting the importance of the structure and steps in learning piano skills. Thank you Jazer Lee for your clarity and free tutorials.All the best
Great advice for a beginner. Thank you, Jazer Lee.
Jazer is an amazing piano player. The tips are just bonus, I really watch his videos for the wow factor. As for myself, I just started playing 6 months ago and I’m working on a left hand independence course through Pianote.
All of 'em! ^_^ Thanks very much for taking the time to keep this channel going. I'm 36 and working on RCM Grade 1, currently still on the 1st Hanon exercise
I recently learned a trick that old time piano players used for voicing. They would have their left wrist up a little higher while they played so that it would be softer. It really highlights a big part of piano playing that is over looked, which is arm weight.
A terrific list and guide, and one I will look at closely this year. My #1 Piano Goal for 2024 is to practice two hours a day (with room for more). Two hours of focused, productive practice every day, with consistent evidence of progress (even if the progress is a tiny bit a day). This is a skill set that is rarely spoken about and I would welcome a video on it. The ability to measure your practice in hours a day is that x-factor that explains why some accomplish their goals and others quit. If one can practice hours a day, everything else should and will fall into place.
I could listen to your piano playing all day long. Thank you.
Jazer as a beginner I cannot tell you how much your videos help me!
Do you have any plans on doing a video on pedalling? It feels like a skill completely out of my reach and I would love you to explain how it works and how to use it
Thanks for your tips. You are an inspiration.
really helpful. Thank u
My teacher has me practicing scales 4 octaves, Hanon exercise #1 going through the different keys. We always do sight reading, and I always memorize my recital pieces. This year I would like to master playing the right hand louder than the left - I struggle with it.
Great lesson, and I'm already doing most of them. Your warmup exercises became my daily routine and I'm working on my dynamics with them. Merci for all you're doing.
Amazing!!!!
Thank you for the great tips! I’m 27 and a self taught player for almost three years with lots of on and off in between, but I’m making sure I stay consistent with my practice this year. I’m working on almost all of them except octaves, so I’ll have to sprinkle that into my practice
This video is so well made, informative, and entertaining thanks man!
70 year old just started lessons and struggling with hand independence 😝. Don’t know if i will ever get this but your videos do help. Thank you
You will get it! I struggled with this at first, then it clicked. It still takes work with each piece, but way easier now. Enjoy this new adventure. ❤
I am having the same coordination problems. I have signed up to Jazer's bootcamp course & it is really helping.
Not to far behind you and yes it's a struggle. The one thing I found that helps is the metronome. There is just something about that mechanical tick
40-year-old, here. Just started learning piano in March. I've noticed when I'm consistent, things click within about a week. When I'm not,they still clock, but take a bit longer.
You are a terrific teacher !
The thing I want to improve most during 2024 is finger i dependence, especially the 4th one. Even with the hanon, I find it much slower to developp than any other skill, like octaves for example. I've been playing for 2½ years and can play without too much trouble the end of Hungarian rhapsody no 6 (the octave filled section) pretty well but I still struggle to play a Chopin waltz without having my fingers stock together when I'm about to finish
Mainly hand independence. Thanks for the teaching!
Dynamics and voicing are always on my mind. Thanks, Jazer!
Currently working on hand coordination and independence and finger independence
This is really helpful, Thank You for this
Love this accuracy rule .. I’ve been doing this … it’s very rewarding in the end
Need to work on all of them. Thanks for the tios
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Thankyou. I have begun the Hanon. I also want to be able to play with more hand independence! I'm going to refer to this video quite often and appreciate all of these important tips.
Thank you for the great video Jazer! Would love a video that covers the sustain pedal more! Thank you.
Great tips! I already read music from stringed instruments and voice, but it's still an effort to switch this knowledge to keyboard. So 1 through 6 are my main focus now.
I have played scales arpeggios hanon etc and they do help alot. Jazer's presentation is always interesting. I am really more into popular music now and i want to keep in practice.
My you be blessed you are doing avery good job i have learned much from you thanks alot
Just started play piano. You are my hero :-)
Thanx for your work
You are an expert teacher, generous with your time and knowledge.. ❤
Thank you. Working in all of them. I am taking also your hand coordination exercises. Very nice. One recommendation, from a beginner point of view. If you do not mind, is to make the very last exercise of each level an exercise in which we switch between each execise of that level. For example. Start with 2.1 then without stopping move to 2.2 then 2.3, and so on.
Working on many of those all the time - scales, arpeggios, several Hanon and more sight reading - Cheers!
I could listen to you play piano all day! ❤
I am an old man (in my 62d year) & have been playing for four months. Understanding that this is a process, I have been concentrating on scales & arpeggios & I am progressing quite well (strangely enough my left [non-dominant] hand seems to pick things up faster), having learned all the Major keys & am currently digesting the Minor keys. I am pleased with my sight reading progression (I am reading book on the History of Western Music & read all the music as well as the words). The biggest problem I have is dynamics: it seems I have a very hard time divorcing the force I hit the keys with each hand, my left hand always has problems playing softly while my right is more forceful. Also combining the left & right is very difficult. I practice each hand separately, but when I try to combine them, things fall apart. Also, it would be great if you could address playing notes that have different lengths, for instance, playing a measure that varies between a C & E in 8th notes while, with the same hand, playing D, F, & G in 16th notes. Even though I am more interested in playing Jazz, I have learned more from your lessons than any other YT video (I have bought both Hannon & Czerny books). & yes, I am subscribed & like all your videos. Keep up the great work, & I will do my best to move along. Pace doesn't really matter as long as I do see some progress.
Why you think you are old. Age is just a number. I am 65 and starting to learn piano
Great video, as always! Thank you. Well-structured skills. I work on all of them as I have played for 3 months.
Very well presented! I am not classically trained, but am not too far away from any of these objectives! All workable with focused effort; I will pursue such!
Thanks for all of these videos Jazer! Such great information you are sharing with us all. You have been a huge help getting me back to piano. (it's such a shame I keep seeing ads before your videos for people selling courses telling us not read sheet music!! ha.) Love your style..I am going through hand bootcamp now and 1st Gymnopedie. Waiting for the next Jazer online course :)
All ten. I aspire to play like you do but I've got a looooooong way to go.
A little bit of everything but mostly hand coordination and dynamics,but also trying to recognize functions in the piece of music,thanks
Thanks!
And thank you as well! I do appreciate it!
I've been working on Hanon and some scales. Satie gets my pedals working. Linus and Lucy challenges my hand coordination, which so far has been maddening to achieve - I keep trying anyway. Thanks Jazer, good stuff, you've been helpful.
Scales. Great video btw
I enjoy your teaching skills. I am reinspired to play piano again after hearing the song Golden Hour by Jvke. I am relearning as a 70 yr. old novice after decades of not playing. But there was a time I could play Claire de Lune
Working on all of these. Struggling most with sight reading & octaves. I would include music analysis(theory) with sight-reading and would love more content on this, i.e. applying chord analysis etc. to help sight-reading.
For those of us with small hands, is there any benefit in doing some of the octave exercises as, say 6ths instead? Or is it only about the actual octave stretch, which as you point out is v. common in music?
Thanks for the video!
I’m an amateur myself but, I think since the goal with octaves is precision then if you’re intention is to hit sixths it will still help. Cause you’re still doing a stretch and you’re still making sure you’re hitting the right spacing. Although you should work on the octaves still just to see if your hands can get there (I get it I’m a tiny handed player as well)
Thank you for this insight…
I am doing scale and coincidentally i use the same boo, I do hanon 1-9, read slowly and I memorize as I practice…
I really liked your video.
Thank you for your amazing advice I really appreciate it, you are one of my Idol teacher, hoping that someday I can play on piano as like you with full of confidence.
To some extent, I'm working on most or all of these. But right now, I'm memorizing some pieces I've been working on, so I'd say memorization. My technique is to break the piece into sections and memorize each section separately. And I rarely start at the beginning of the piece, I typically start with the section giving me the most problems, and focus on getting that section right and memorized, then move on to another one.
So, I feel like I'm working on several of these currently. Maybe not recommendable but as an adult beginner in conservatory demand is high to get good fast.
Also, I kinda disagree with the part about pedalling. I've done some pedal work in the past but my current pieces with irregular pedalling patterns have me on the struggle bus for real! This whole video was very helpful nonetheless! Thank you Jazer!
all of them and procastinating with sight reading... nice video!
I'm working on all of these, but with more attention to right and left hand independence, much harder than it looks lol. I'm so thankful I found your channel. Your videos are excellent and so very helpful! As a beginner, when I'm looking to learn a new piece, do you suggest a piece arranged for beginners, or should I find original pieces that I can play as a beginner? Thanks again!
73 years old, learning for personal enjoyment. Lack decipline and focus. Working on scales.
Currently learning scales/chords and appregios. Also trying my hand at sight reading and getting better at octaves.
like..best learning...😍😍😍
We definitely need an upload of the full recording of chopin waltz 😊
I'm just getting back into piano after 50 years so The I'm starting with the first two skills1and once I get a feel for where I am, I plan to participate in your workshops and courses once I get the basics down and hit a wall. Hard to believe but after all these years, I still have my Honan and Thpmpson practice books from when I took lessons in grammar school. They are a bit god-eared but... I take it as a good omen.
Please add for early, late & advanced 🙏🙏🙏
This is great thanks so much for the resource. It will make my life easier giving it to students 😊
Octaves for me. I watched your Interstellar tutorial and have been practicing that lately and I'm struggling with the octave jumps for the right hand, which I realized I haven't used before because I usually do octaves with the left hand.
Currently working on scales!
My biggest focus rn is finger independence and fixing bad habits but also improving my sightreading skill.
What are you playing during the pedaling technique?
Great tips! I have never started hanon books. I'm now starting my G8, every grade is very different and can already tell even from G7 to G8, the jump is wide! I hope I can pass too. As an working adult and juggle with piano is tough, 1 hour practice is not enough but instead, I'd say 1hr = 2bars. Just on technique and skills alone. I don't know if I am slow but I know I can do it
nice teach
Sight reading and voicing. Cheers :)
I like to learn the method of sight-reading and I will enroll if u have one. Right now I enrolled with the hand coordination course and I found it is very useful thx
Great techniques explained. I wish you can do an in depth tutorial on pedaling. I struggle with that the most
I failed all the basics. But now I play for leisure from Elton john to John lennon. Learnt thru the hard way but it’s all worth it.
If could turn back time, I’ll learn these fundamental again.
Ok...got all that work done last night....what is next years assignments?
Just discovered your videos and am really liking them. But I thought I should add a cautionary note regarding the Alfred book. I started learning to play on my own and started using this book for scales. I then started taking lessons and my teacher pointed out that my fingering was wrong for some keys. I found out that it was because the book provides different fingering for single octaves vs. multiple octaves. My teacher advised that the single octave fingering is unnecessary and should be ignored.
All good things to work on. I still struggle with voicing...keeping my left hand softer/quieter than the right.
I’d love to know more about voicing level 10. I have great difficulty playing soft in the left hand whilst raising the volume in the right hand. Do you have a lesson video on this topic? Thanks
It’s funny you played Chopin waltz in c# minor, I just finished learning that piece 😂. Thank you, this video helped me 😊
Thank you for the informative video. I'm working on scales and arpeggios. I have learned over the years everything I do is never for private enjoyment it is to entertain other people such as reading, eating, playing piano, sleeping ect. So I practice activities as if I'm on a stage or will be because that is the only purpose of any activity is to entertain others..Having the correct tools and knowing what you are doing is necessary for a great performance..
I hope you live for you too & not only for others. How does eating & sleeping entertain others? ❄️
@@tiffcat1100 Excellent question. If the way you are eating and sleeping is boring to watch find out how to make it more entertaining and practice that. Sets, costumes and dialog are important as an actor. The world is a stage. Give it your best performance.
@@mikehess4494 I hate being seen. I’m the opposite of an actor. My grandmother should most definitely have been involved with theatre/acting somehow but was forbidden by her father (Edwardian days) & had to become an apprentice milliner instead. She lived to 103, always looked immaculate, lots of make up (& Leichners make up remover bought from a stage shop in Bournemouth) & was thrown over a horse backwards in the 1909 National Welsh Pageant in Cardiff aged 15 (as Queen of the Fairies) by the Chief Ruffian (Constable of Glamorgan)! Ps She was offered a place in the Cardiff theatre school or whatever its title was but her father said NO!
@@tiffcat1100 The performance life is something you grow into...Find your performance style that is fun and entertaining for you and your audience. This is the way.
Every video is a flex as always
Excellent… I’m working on all of them… love your videos … btw what was piece you played in the earlier part of the video ? It was lovely . I’m learning to much .. 😊
Number 10 is difficult for me, particularly as I am left-handed, but I will keep practicing! A very good tutorial, thank you Jazer.
Also difficult as right handed person, it confuses me in a similar way as it used to with playing hands together in the beginning lol
Hi, I love your videos. I wonder if there are any with dynamics exercises.
I'm working scales and arpeggios; sight reading, and Hanon. I can play right hand louder, but melody in the left hand is a challenge still.
Thank you for the wonderful video!!!
So, is there a way for you to go over how your hand is supposed to look on the piano? And tips to not have your pinky finger not straight up like we are drinking tea when playing? 🤣
Hopefully that question makes sense. 🙂
Practicing Hannon exercise number 2 at the moment 😊
Pls how can I get the Hannon book . Pls help
I had a quick scan on Amazon & there are various Hanon exercise books including for beginners. EBay prob has them too
Working on octaves
More tutorials on voicing!!
6 months of learning piano here. Currently learning hand independence. But it's wrecking my mind
I started when lockdown started but I feel I did not improve a lot. Glad I managed to learn to play being rather old. I am working on my scales aperggios and other lingo. I have been neglecteing it so far. Well I ignored the whole theory thing other than reading music. So I wasted years because now I freeze with difficult keys, those with loads of flats or sharps. I got issues with chord. Always I seem to stop when I encounter a chord. Broken chords are ok. I will follow the list because I tend to use too much pedal,. Kinda forget I got the pedal on. I guess it is not too late and might recover the wasted time . I want to master all steps ..
I bought the adult piano teaching book (Palmer was it, or was that the scales?) which seems mellow & nice, not patronising or blinding with science 😊
Octaves and voicing: trying some Scott Joplin pieces (stres on “trying”)
Only ever known to memorize pieces. Started learning #1, then octaves, then both, and then piano/more dynamics training. Feel I’ve gotten pretty far in only 4 years (started 2020 so less than 4
Just got the Alfred’s scale book the week before last on a whim, guess my intuition was right! Now to find the Hanson one…
I would like some more structured sight reading exercises is there a website you would recommend
A tutorial about how to pedal right would be cool. Specialy with sheets. When do i know to play with or without pedal. Not every sheet shows this info
Good work
Please I want some of your piano books.
I would really love if you can do a video about wrist tension and pain, i record myself and I noticed that my pinky curved alot and some notes cause my wrist pain and it’s uncomfortable
I got the faber books. There are some books where you learn the scales with a Melody. I find Hanon veey robotic czerny seems to be nice. But i am not familiar with Palmer.. i have also the scales and aperggios book that he recommends very good. But i get bored so easily..
For those interested in the Hanon exercises, may I suggest the Hanon-Faber book instead of the regular Hanon book. It comes with instructions on how to properly perform the exercises.
I'm working on skill 2. I used to play piano when I was a kid and now I lost it... Getting back to playing good again haha!